Quotes & Sayings About Starkfield In Ethan Frome

My love,
you are all the flowers in the world
and I promise that my heart will always be its garden. — Timothy Joshua

There was a faint, sharp sweetness about her, like the taste of raspberries. She wore fussy and frilly clothes and jingling bracelets with an air of surprised distaste, as if she had been put to sleep by a witch and had awoken to find herself in these trappings. — Rebecca West

Man is just what he thinks himself to be ... He will attract to himself what the thinks most about. He can learn to govern his own destiny when he learns to control his thoughts. — Ernest Holmes

Denis Eady was the son of Michael Eady, the ambitious Irish grocer, whose suppleness and effrontery had given Starkfield its first notion of "smart" business methods, and whose new brick store testified to the success of the attempt. His son seemed likely to follow in his steps, and was meanwhile applying the same arts to the conquest of the Starkfield maidenhood. Hitherto Ethan Frome had been content to think him a mean fellow; but now he positively invited a horse-whipping. — Edith Wharton

One cannot be spiritual as long as one has shame, hatred, or fear. — Ramakrishna

Written by the ancient Chinese philosopher of the same name, the 'Zhuangzi' is one long perplexing puzzle of a rambling collection of enigmatic short stories. It's a strange feeling to laugh at a joke written by someone in the 4th century B.C. — Patrick Stump

All my characters have got a big slice of me in them. A big piece of me, because it's my dialogue and this is the way I think and talk. — Wilbur Smith