"An American Tragedy" Quotes
A young man's desperate pursuit of social status leads to a tragic outcome.
classics | 920 pages | Published in 2022
Quotes
If only she had been a maid!
Life, if anywhere, should be beautiful!
They were involved in a world of peril, charming, and seductive.
It might be that there was no right or wrong involved in this.
The world as he saw it was full of people with wistful possibilities for beauty.
Love as a possibility for him!
Fear had taken him by the throat and was choking out the life of him.
Death was not for him! It could not be!
Who is? Men simply choose any course that comes nearest to their temperament!
He had punished himself enough. Surely he had.
