The Wings of the Dove Quotes

[Death] wouldn't be for her a question of a flying leap and thereby of a quick escape. It would be a question of taking full in the face the whole assault of life." (1.3.1.14)

Why should a set of people [a family] have been put in motion, on such a scale and with such an air of being equipped for a profitable journey, only to break down without an accident, to stretch th...

He might be ill, and it might suit you to know it, but no contact with him, for this, could ever be straight enough. (1.1.1.4)

They had accepted their acquaintance as too short for an engagement, but they had treated it as long enough for almost anything else, and marriage was somehow before them like a temple without an a...

Slender and simple, frequently soundless, she was somehow always in the line of the eye—she counted singularly for its pleasure. (1.1.1.2)

There was a minute during which, though her eyes were fixed, she quite visibly lost herself in the thought of the way she might still pull things round had she only been a man." (1.1.1.3)

The hitch here, of course, was that, with whatever beauty, her sister, widowed and almost in want, with four bouncing children, was not a sensible value. (1.1.1.6)

The irrecoverable days had come back to her from far off; they were part of the sense of the cool upper air and of everything else that hung like an indestructible scent to the torn garment of yout...