Jelena

“Marriage is one long sacrifice.”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“I swear I only want to hear about you, to know what you've been doing. It's a hundred years since we've met-it may be another hundred before we meet again.”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen.”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.”
― Willa Cather, My Ántonia