"Ethan Frome" Quotes

I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there when you're sick and when you're lonesome.

I don't see's there's much difference between the Fromes up at the farm and the Fromes down in the village; except that down there they're all knocked up, and up here they're all knocked down.

It was not so much his unexpected turn of phrase that arrested her as the way in which he gave it, and the way in which, as he went on, he seemed to kindle to his own words.

I want to be good to you.

I couldn't sleep out o' doors with the women-folks. Lord, they're a rough lot, the women-folks!

I seem to be looking at you from a long way off, through the wrong end of a telescope.

It was as though the book had been lost and someone had slammed it in anger.

They are not like any other people in the world, are they?

You shouldn't have done that, Matt.

I can't go, Zeena. I'll get down somehow, but I can't go.