The Daily Henry James Quotes

“The Bostonians, 1886 There were certain afternoons in August, long, beau-tiful and terrible, when one felt that the summer was rounding its curve, and the rustle of the full-leaved trees in the slanting golden light, in the breeze that ought to be delicious, seemed the voice of the coming autumn, of the warnings and dangers of life.”
― Henry James, The Daily Henry James: A Year of Quotes from the Work of the Master

“The Golden Bowl, 1904 It had rained heavily in the night, and though the pavements were now dry, thanks to a cleansing breeze, the August morning, with its hovering, thick-drifting clouds and freshened air, was cool and grey. The multitudinous green of the Park had been deepened, and a wholesome smell of irrigation, purging the place of dust and of odours less acceptable, rose from the earth.”
― Henry James, The Daily Henry James: A Year of Quotes from the Work of the Master