Edith Wharton - Ethan Frome (1911)

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I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.

Edith Wharton
Almost everybody in the neighborhood had "troubles," frankly localized and specified; but only the chosen had "complications." To have them was in itself a distinction, though it was also, in most cases, a death warrant. People struggled on for years with "troubles," but they almost always succumbed to "complications."

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I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.

Edith Wharton
In a sky of iron the points of the Dipper hung like icicles and Orion flashed his cold fires.

Edith Wharton
I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there when you're sick and when you're lonesome.

Edith Wharton
He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of its frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface.

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They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.

Edith Wharton
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.

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