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“...though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all spontaneity of feeling, and seemed to herself to be passively awaiting a fate she could not avert.”
― Edith Wharton, Summer

“There was no sense of guilt in her now, but only a desperate desire to defend her secret from irreverent eyes, and begin life again among people to whom the harsh code of the village was unknown.”
― Edith Wharton, Summer

“She had always thought of love as something confused and furtive, and he made it as bright and open as the summer air.”
― Edith Wharton, Summer

“It was as if all the latent beauty of things had been unveiled to her. She could not imagine that the world held anything more wonderful.”
― Edith Wharton, Summer