Hsinlan Wang

“What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.”
― 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

“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

“They are all alike you know. They hold their tongues for years and you think you're safe, but when the opportunity comes they remember everything.”
― Edith Wharton