Letter From Peking Quotes

“The days of my youth are past and to a woman full grown a kiss means everything—or nothing.”
― Pearl S. Buck, Letter from Peking

“Liz, it’s so easy to say ‘I’m sorry.’ It costs nothing and it saves a mint of pain. Those two words are the common coin of daily life, but especially between people who love each other.”
― Pearl S. Buck, Letter from Peking

“It is not that we cannot believe,” he replied. “It is that we do not want anything enough. Faith rises from necessity. We have no necessity.”
― Pearl S. Buck, Letter from Peking

“There is no dignity to life except with order,”
― Pearl S. Buck, Letter from Peking

“Rennie was off again to go with his friends to a motion picture.”
― Pearl S. Buck, Letter from Peking

“Oh, there is a loneliness which befalls me now and then and it is something more than death.”
― Pearl S. Buck, Letter from Peking