“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, The Age of Innocence

“Each time you happen to me all over again.”

—Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.”

—Edith Wharton

“Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.”

—Edith Wharton, Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verses

“Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.”

—Edith Wharton, Vesalius in Zante (1564)

“A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.”

—

Edith Wharton

May your day be mirthful as we celebrate Edith Wharton’s birthday! Looking for one of her classics? We’ve got them right here!

“If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.”

—Edith Wharton

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

Ethan falls in love with his wife’s cousin. Since their love can never be, they decide to kill themselves. But they’re shit at it and instead just end up paralyzed.

“Dead to all shames, forgotten of all glories, Shall I not wander there, a shadow's shade, A spectre self-destroyed, So purged of all remembrance and sucked back Into the primal void, That should we on the shore phantasmal meet I should not know the coming of your feet?”

—Edith Wharton, from “An Autumn Sunset” (submitted by austentatious-in-the-tardis)
Loading more posts...