Thornton Wilder Quote

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.


The Bridge of San Luis Rey (ed. Penguin UK, 2006) - ISBN: 9780141909479


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...

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...

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...

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...