Quote

She seemed to melt against him in her terror, and he caught her in his arms, held her fast there, felt her lashes beat his cheek like netted butterflies.

Edith Wharton

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Edith Wharton
Age: 75 †
Born: 1862
Born: January 24
Died: 1937
Died: August 11
Novelist
Poet
Prosaist
Translator
Writer
New York City
New York
Edith Newbold Jones
Edith Newbold Jones Wharton
Felt
Held
Netted
Like
Terror
Lashes
Kissing
Butterflies
Seemed
Melt
Beats
Cheek
Fast
Cheeks
Caught
Butterfly
Arms
Beat

More quotes by Edith Wharton

Image
What is one's personality, detached from that of the friends with whom fate happens to have linked one? I cannot think of myself apart from the influence of the two or three greatest friendships of my life, and any account of my own growth must be that of their stimulating and enlightening influence.
Edith Wharton
Image
... there are spines to which the immobility of worship is not a strain.
Edith Wharton
Image
Society soon grows used to any state of things which is imposed upon it without explanation.
Edith Wharton
Image
The visible world is a daily miracle, for those who have eyes and ears.
Edith Wharton
Image
Most timidities have such secret compensations and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer self depreciation.
Edith Wharton
Image
She wondered if, when human souls try to get too near each other, they do not inevitably become mere blurs to each other's vision.
Edith Wharton
Image
Poetry and art are the breath of life to her.
Edith Wharton
Image
The visible world is a daily miracle for those who have eyes and ears and I still warm hands thankfully at the old fire, though every year it is fed with the dry wood of more old memories.
Edith Wharton
Image
I don't know that I should care for a man who made life easy I should want some one who made it interesting.
Edith Wharton
Image
They belonged to that vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by the surrounding puppets.
Edith Wharton
Image
True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
Edith Wharton
Image
What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.
Edith Wharton
Image
In the summer New York was the only place in which one could escape from New Yorkers.
Edith Wharton
Image
The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future.
Edith Wharton
Image
There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all feeding off their gold plate not now! At present they have not only my sympathy but my preference. They are the last representatives of our native industries.
Edith Wharton
Image
The early mist had vanished and the fields lay like a silver shield under the sun. It was one of the days when the glitter of winter shines through a pale haze of spring.
Edith Wharton
Image
I swear I only want to hear about you, to know what you've been doing. It's a hundred years since we've met-it may be another hundred before we meet again.
Edith Wharton
Image
The only thing to do is to hug one's friends tight and do one's job.
Edith Wharton
Image
She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.
Edith Wharton
Image
Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
Edith Wharton