Hsinlan Wang

“There was once a little girl who was so very intelligent that her parents feared that she would die. But an aged aunt, who had crossed the Atlantic in a sailing-vessel, said, 'My dears, let her marry the first man she falls in love with, and she will make such a fool of herself that it will probably save her life.”
― Edith Wharton

“What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.”
― Edith Wharton

“Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.”
― Edith Wharton

“We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence