She seemed always to have seen him through a blur - first of sleepiness, then of distance and indifference - and now the fog had thickened till he was almost indistinguishable.
Edith Wharton
Related 'The Buccaneers' was an Edith Wharton novel, and she never finished it, and a screenwriter a... JAMES FRAIN The savagery and power of Edith Wharton's ghost stories surprised me. MICHAEL DIRDA I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES If it wasn’t for the mist we could see your home across the bay," said Gatsby. "You always have a ... F. SCOTT FITZGERALD The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes. CHARLOTTE CURTIS Overhead hung a summer sky furrowed with the rush of rockets; and from the east a late moon, pushing... EDITH WHARTON The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes. CHARLOTTE CURTIS ...his sleep, though deep as death itself, was not dreamless this time, but threaded with ghostly wi... PATRICK SüSKIND In all my novels, a sense of place - not just geographic but social - is a critical element. I have ... SUSAN WIGGS In response to a ridiculous statement by Edith: " I've gotta quote for you, Edith. --'A bird that al... ARCHIE BUNKER It was not only Odette's indifference, however, that he must take pains to circumvent; it was also, ... MARCEL PROUST They had stopped now and he gave a glance up at the sky, through the trees, as though to see how muc... KATHLEEN WINSOR That initial anger she had felt turned to sadness, and now it had become something else, almost a du... NICHOLAS SPARKS Henry James and Edith Wharton are huge for me because they gave me a way to understand America while... CLAIRE MESSUD I am very fond of Edith Wharton. She's quite high brow but also a great storyteller. My favorite... KEN FOLLETT . She was beautiful, and her temperament seemed much better than his first wife did. Arman stopped i... GRACE WILLOWS She had seen just now what she had only sensed before, that the whole world was ready to be their en... PATRICIA HIGHSMITH She couldn't think of anyone else who remotely resembled him. He was complicated, almost contradicto... NICHOLAS SPARKS They drove a long way through the snowy woods, till they came to the town of Pepin. Mary and Laura h... LAURA INGALLS WILDER Her absence had felt like torture--almost a form of personal punishment. He had nobody to discuss hi... STIEG LARSSON But my mother was aglow. She had a continuing fascination with celebrities, and now she had one of h... STEVE MARTIN Bastard,” she spat at him, and she thought he had moved closer. She swung at him, and then suddenl... ROBIN HOBB The next day, Mabel and Jet visited the battleground, and then Norma Jean was born, and then she mar... BOBBIE ANN MASON It had been an awful thing to lose Henry the first time, to matrimony, but to discover what a false ... ANNA GODBERSEN Scully liked neatness and order. This office was her notion of a nightmare. She had no idea how Muld... LES MARTIN Yet losing him seemed unbearable. He was the one she loved, the one she would always love, and as he... NICHOLAS SPARKS Her heart had grown so familiar to the pain of life without him, that to respond now seemed too larg... COCO J. GINGER There was a time when I had all of his attention and loved it. As much as I wanted him to leave me a... PENELOPE DOUGLAS Lucy seemed to be imprisoned by a legion of people in her life who always wanted what was right for ... C. JOYBELL C. Now with her eyes closed and fist clenched at her side. She was as off balanced as he was. Lilith to... SHADOWSTORM NORWICCA You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS Like a man travelling in foggy weather, those at some distance before him on the road he sees wrappe... BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He scraped through the dark sand to the center house, two stories, both pouring bands of light into ... DOROTHY B. HUGHES War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to... JANE GOODALL It was at first almost as if he hadn't wanted to kiss her. His mouth was hard on hers, unyielding; t... CASSANDRA CLARE It was like he got in some sort of zone and everything seemed to flow for him. I remember hitting so... BERNIE WILLIAMS And he would watch the snow falling, thin and ceaseless, on the empty lands below the window, and fe... URSULA K. LE GUIN Letters had always defeated distance, but with the coming of e-mail, time seemed to be vanquished as... THOMAS MALLON He smiled like he couldn't help it. She couldn't believe it. He was actally smiling , teeth an... KELLY CREAGH Mr Dior had a vision. He knew what taste was, he knew what style was. And he knew what made a woman ... SHARON STONE O Cicero,
I have seen tempests when the scolding winds
Have rived the knotty oaks, and I have ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It hardly mattered. She was tired of waiting for him to acknowledge who he was. Tired of donning a f... ELIZABETH HOYT Annie, who up until this very day had always felt like a child--which is why she could not marry, sh... ELIZABETH STROUT .. I thought about him now and then, the things he had taught me about 'being human' and 'relating t... MITCH ALBOM When her body first hit the net, all I registered was a gray blur. I pulled her across it and her ha... VERONICA ROTH And Edward was surprised to discover that he was listening. Before, when Abilene had talked to him, ... KATE DICAMILLO She was furious with him and couldn't believe he would take the car without first asking her. If he ... SHARON ANDERSON She had grown older. And he loved her more now than he had loved her when he understood her better, ... MICHAEL ONDAATJE He had a Puritan conscience and an Episcopalian sense of sin. The first pricked at him persistently,... ANDREW SINCLAIR Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human ... CORRIE TEN BOOM The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need SARAH J. MAAS I turned. Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere... SARAH J. MAAS It took Feyra some time to realise that she was not delirious: the citizens were wearing painted mas... MARINA FIORATO ...Again she did not seem to hear, still looking into Cale’s eyes. Then slowly, hopelessly, she dr... PAUL HOFFMAN The first one I was real close. You've got to give Henry a lot of credit. He fought it all the way d... KEENAN MCCARDELL She threw the door open. The room seemed to be a sort of library, the walls lined with books. It was... CASSANDRA CLARE The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had be... IAN MCEWAN She didn’t know how long they stood on that roof, tangled up in each other, mouths and hands rovin... SARAH J. MAAS Walking away from him had been almost impossible. But she loved him too much to do otherwise. Becaus... KATIE REUS Mike used to handle a lot of details. Every now and again I'd ask him to write me a speech. He was v... BILL DASHNER But he said to his wife, sitting next to him on the couch in the TV room, that rarely had he seen a ... MARK WALLACE He had appeared beside her because she had wanted him to. She had called him to her, and was calling... ALICE HOFFMAN He thought of the number of girls and women she had seen marry, how many homes with children in them... CHARLES DICKENS She almost died. She had to wait until they came back to find out if he was OK. I couldn't go throug... GLADYS BETTIS The first CD I had was 'Definitely Maybe' by Oasis, and I had a tape of' 'Parklife... IWAN RHEON He had a lot of injuries over the years. He cracked both of his cannon bones when he was a two-year-... HUGH ROBERTSON Until two days ago what had driven him was the will to survive: deep, animal, full of rage—but alw... PAUL HOFFMAN His hands tightened on her shoulders as the truth washed over him. My God, she really had told him y... CAROLYN JEWEL Now and then, I am surprised to read of the death of someone I have known, because I thought he or s... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT He wished he knew how to make tea, wished he even had some to try with. That was what Miss June-bug ... LINDA LAEL MILLER She always seemed to be disoriented and was in a keep away area. She seemed starved for attention an... JENNIFER WILLIS I first heard it on a demo right before my aunt died. And then she died, and it was the hardest thin... BRAD PAISLEY Everywhere we walked we got plenty of attention due to the camera and sound men. The locals love to ... KARL PILKINGTON He was gone and did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and ... JOHN GREEN And she knew him and so herself, for although she had always known herself she had never been able t... ITALO CALVINO He also didn't mind Piper's using him for a pillow. She had a cute way of breathing when she slept -... RICK RIORDAN She was very good at it. She always seemed to have an eye for that sort of thing. ANDY KRIKORIAN Although he had always been a gentleman till then, he had 'caught his century', a disease impossible... RACHILDE Before she realized he was next to her, he had placed his hands over hers on the countertop, then ho... ALICE HOFFMAN Three weeks ago, he’d seen hail fall from the sky, only to be followed minutes later by a spe... NICHOLAS SPARKS That pass to Antwon (Courington), the first touchdown, that was all him. I had a running play called... JAY JOHNSON Paula always seemed to have time for you, she would always stop and have a chat with me in the stree... STEPHEN SEARS I've got one grandson gone to MIT. Another grandson had been in the American school here. Becaus... LEE KUAN YEW …tomorrow was her birthday, and she was thinking how fast the years went by, how old she was getti... LOUISA MAY ALCOTT First she would try to kill him, but failing this give him food and her body, breast-feed him back t... J.G. BALLARD [His opponents have recognized his potential from first-hand experience.] He was pretty impressive, ... BOB SCHAEFER The little flickering part of his brain that was still sparking coherent thought through the fog of ... TERRY PRATCHETT Then, all of a sudden, he stopped and nobody heard from him or got a response to orders. At this poi... FRED DAVIS His overthrow heaped happiness upon him;
For then, and not till then, he felt himself,
And fou... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Graystripe’s nest was empty. A flash of anger shot through Fireheart. Where was his friend when he... ERIN HUNTER He always had a sense of who he is, ... The William Rehnquist you saw then [was] like the William Re... DAVID LEITCH Life seemed ideal to him right then, and he was happy for the first time in a long time, and it felt... DAVID SLOMA I always thought that Northwest had the upper hand in this, and that AMFA was playing with a weak ha... SCOTT HAMILTON The thought of talking about it made Pueblo's gut ache, but then he thought of everything that Amy h... DIANNA HARDY She had always wanted a brother. And she had one now. Sebastian. It was like always wanting a puppy ... CASSANDRA CLARE
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EDITH SITWELL The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous... EDITH SITWELL The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. EDITH SITWELL I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am... EDITH SITWELL I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art. EDITH SITWELL I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. EDITH SITWELL Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred a... EDITH SITWELL A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits. EDITH SITWELL People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looki... EDITH SCHAEFFER The farm women are extremely well organized and are bound to be heard from. EDITH ROGERS I cannot doubt that women will line up, like the men elected, with the groups whose political thinki... EDITH ROGERS But do not understand me as saying, or for one moment suggesting, that women legislators should conf... EDITH ROGERS The market town of Cheltenham, in Gloucestershire, was a popular 19th - century English spa. Its min... EDITH PEARLMAN I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition b... EDITH PEARLMAN I know a lot of single people who are not miserable as society tells them they're supposed to be... EDITH PEARLMAN I always loved to read, and I wanted to be part of the project of literature. My physical longevity ... EDITH PEARLMAN There's no rule I want to break or ever wanted to break - I find the conventional life gratifyin... EDITH PEARLMAN I lived around the corner from Saul Bellow. EDITH PEARLMAN Tony Judt's remarkable 'The Memory Chalet' was written from the prison of mute immobilit... EDITH PEARLMAN In the late 1950s, self-esteem hadn't yet been invented. High schools saw their sole mission as ... EDITH PEARLMAN The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and pr... EDITH PEARLMAN I was quite satisfied with my creative life. I've always had reinforcement from a small but devo... EDITH PEARLMAN I think the computer is a hindrance to good writing because it is so tempting to leave what you'... EDITH PEARLMAN