Quote of the Day (Edith Wharton, on Discovering Happiness Amid Winter)

“They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.” — Pulitzer Prize-winning American fiction writer Edith Wharton (1862-1937), Ethan Frome (1909)

The image accompanying this post shows Ruth Gordon and Raymond Massey as the desperate lovers grabbing for a moment of happiness in a desolate Berkshire village (appropriately named Starkfield) in the 1936 Broadway adaptation of Ethan Frome.