Desiree Moore

“He regarded love as a sort of cruel malady through which the elect are required to pass in their late youth and from which they emerge, pale and wrung, but ready for the business of living.”
― Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey

“Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.”
― Thornton Wilder, The Matchmaker

“...my house contains every useless thing in the world. it lacks only the one essential, a piece of sky like this one...”
― Marcel Proust

“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.”
― Thornton Wilder