Ellen Olenska Quotes

“The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!”

“I can’t love you unless I give you up.”

“The circumstances of his life, and a certain native shrewdness, made him better worth talking to than many men, morally and socially his betters, whose horizon was bounded by the Battery and the Central Park. How should anyone coming from a wider world not feel the difference and be attracted by it?”