She would search for him.
In the land that lay east of the sun and west of the moon.
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EDITH HEAD I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the auth...
EDITH WHARTON I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.
EDITH PIAF My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.
EDITH WHARTON The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
EDITH WHARTON Fashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will - like an instinct.
EDITH HEAD Growing old gracefully used to begin at about 35, but today women prefer to 'stay young grateful...
EDITH HEAD There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
EDITH WHARTON I just was mesmerized by all of this life everywhere I looked. And so I wanted to be a marine biolog...
EDITH WIDDER Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth.
EDITH PIAF ...though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all...
EDITH WHARTON Her whole being dilated in an atmosphere of luxury. It was the background she required, the only cli...
EDITH WHARTON When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?
EDITH EVANS The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have ...
EDITH SITWELL In 2008, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for work done on a molecule called green fluoresce...
EDITH WIDDER Many women have asked me if it is possible to have a well-built wardrobe on a limited budget. 'M...
EDITH HEAD I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think migh...
EDITH WIDDER Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,'...
EDITH PEARLMAN After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the cri...
EDITH WHARTON Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
EDITH WHARTON When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility,
then Athens ceased to be free...
EDITH HAMILTON To be able to be caught up into the world of thought that is being educated.
EDITH HAMILTON Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?
EDITH WHARTON As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must ...
EDITH STEIN All the stories I write come from someone I've met or some anecdote I've heard.
EDITH PEARLMAN An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French ope...
EDITH WHARTON All I've done all my life is disobey.
EDITH PIAF There are two ways of spreading light: To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
EDITH WHARTON It spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual...
EDITH WHARTON A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.
EDITH HEAD I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. - Las...
EDITH CAVELL I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and
abundance. Then, whenever ...
EDITH ARMSTRONG