Quote for Today: John Lubbock
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across …
Quote for Today: Haruki Murakami
The whiff of ocean on the southern breeze and the smell of burning asphalt brought back memories of summers past. It had seemed as though those sweet dreams of summer …
Quote for Today: Eudora Welty
That summer lying in the long grass with my head propped up against the back of a saddle, with the zenith above me and the drop of distance below, I …
Quote for Today: Elizabeth Harrower
For five days the city had wilted under a hard sky, sweltering in a temperature that stayed fixed in the middle nineties. Even at night there was no relief from …
Quote for Today: Virginia Woolf
He sighed profoundly, and flung himself–there was a passion in his movements which deserves the word–on the earth at the foot of the oak tree. He loved, beneath all this …
Quote for Today: Steven Millhauser
After all, we were young. We were fourteen and fifteen, scornful of childhood, remote from the world of stern and ludicrous adults. We were bored, we were restless, we longed …
Quote for Today: Natalie Babbitt
The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in …
Quote for Today: Charles Dickens
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. …
Quote for Today: Mark Helprin
Quite possibly there’s nothing as fine as a big freight train starting across country in early summer, Hardesty thought. That’s when you learn that the tragedy of plants is …