Alexander's Bridge Quotes

“No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.”
― Willa Cather, Alexander's Bridge

“Are you going to let me love you a little, Bartley?”
― Willa Cather, Alexander's Bridge

“...forever going on journeys that led nowhere; hurrying to catch trains that he might just as well miss; getting up in the morning with a great bustle and splashing of water, to begin a day that had no purpose and no meaning; dining late to shorten the night, sleeping late to shorten the day.”
― Willa Cather, Alexander's Bridge

“CHAPTER I Late one brilliant April afternoon Professor Lucius Wilson stood at the head of Chestnut Street, looking about him with the pleased air of a man of taste who does not very often get to Boston.”
― Willa Cather, Alexander's Bridge

“After all, life doesn’t offer a man much. You work like the devil and think you’re getting on, and suddenly you discover that you’ve only been getting yourself tied up. A million details drink you dry. Your life keeps going for things you don’t want, and all the while you are being built alive into a social structure you don’t care a rap about.”
― Willa Cather, Alexander's Bridge