Edith Wharton Quotes About Summer

Quotes about: Summer

• Overhead hung a summer sky furrowed with the rush of rockets; and from the east a late moon, pushing up beyond the lofty bend of the coast, sent across the bay a shaft of brightness which paled to ashes in the red glitter of the illuminated boats.

  Edith Wharton

  Summer, Moon, Sky

  Edith Wharton (2015). “The House of Mirth”, p.188, Xist Publishing

• In the summer New York was the only place in which one could escape from New Yorkers.

  Edith Wharton

  Summer, New York, New Yorkers

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.1665, Delphi Classics

• Selden and Lily stood still, accepting the unreality of the scene as a part of their own dream-like sensations. It would not have surprised them to feel a summer breeze on their faces, or to see the lights among the boughs reduplicated in the arch of a starry sky. The strange solitude about them was no stranger than the sweetness of being alone in it together.

  Edith Wharton

  Summer, Dream, Sky

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.641, Delphi Classics

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