Edith Wharton: This month's challenge is to complete a thread (10+ posts, at least 3 being your own) where you use one of the following quotes in the opening post - you can change pronouns to fit your character. Threads must be started in June and have 8+ replies, with 3+ being your own, to qualify. Please link to their original post here.

Anyone who completes the challenge this month will earn a raffle ticket!

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The Touchstone - "We all like our wrong-doings to have a becoming cut, to be made to order, as it were; and [Name] found himself suddenly thrust into a garb of dishonor surely meant for a meaner figure."
House of Mirth - "She felt a stealing sense of fatigue as she walked; the sparkle had died out of her, and the taste of life was stale on her lips. She hardly knew what she had been seeking, or why the failure to find it had so blotted the light from her sky: she was only aware of a vague sense of failure, of an inner isolation deeper than the loneliness about her."
Ethan Frome - "They had never before avowed their inclination so openly, and [Name], for a moment, had the illusion that he was a free man, wooing the girl he meant to marry. He looked at her hair and longed to touch it again, and to tell her that is smelt of the woods; but he had never learned to say such things."
The Custom of the Country - "She wanted to surprise everyone by her dash and originality, but she could not help modeling herself on the last person she met, and the confusion of ideals thus produced caused her much perturbation when she had to choose between two courses."
Summer - "Since the fanciful vision of the future that had flitted through her imagination at their first meeting she had hardly ever thought of his marrying her. She had not had to put the thought from her mind; it had not been there. If ever she looked ahead she felt instinctively that the gulf between them was too deep, and that the bridge their passion had flung across it was as insubstantial as a rainbow. But she seldom looked ahead; each day was so rich that it absorbed her...."
The Age of Innocence - "With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together by ignorance on the one side and hypocrisy on the other."
The Buccaneers - "Each was anxious to play the part fate had allotted to him, and each was dimly conscious of an inability to remain confined in it, and painfully aware that their secret problems would have been unintelligible to most men of their own class and kind."