Edith Wharton Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: January 24, 1862 - August 11, 1937
Birthday: January 24
Death: August 11
For hours she had lain in a kind of gentle torpor, not unlike that sweet lassitude which masters one in the hush of a midsummer noon, when the heat seems to have silenced the very birds and insects, and, lying sunk in the tasselled meadow grasses, one looks up through a level roofing of maple-leaves at the vast, shadowless, and unsuggestive blue.
source: Edith Wharton (2001). “Early Short Fiction”, p.50, Electric Book Company
topic: Sweet, Lying, Blue, Maple, Roofing
