Catherine Bishop

“There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country.”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“. . . once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but a voyage on uncharted seas.”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence