"An American Tragedy" Quotes

She was tortured with happiness, tortured with grief.

Fear had taken him by the throat and was choking out the life of him.

Life, if anywhere, should be beautiful!

He had punished himself enough. Surely he had.

There was a sense of giant desolation everywhere.

If only she had been a maid!

He was stunned by life as by some cruel blow.

In him were thousands of faults—but not those!

He felt the awful shame of himself as a creature but half made.

They were involved in a world of peril, charming, and seductive.