1960s Quote by Ali Smith

“Their old life seemed far away and remote to him now, like a dream he could not quite remember. The bright green grass, the…

— Julie Otsuka

“You see all the other fellows were so active and earnest and all that sort of thing- always rampaging, and skirmishing, and scouring the…

— Kenneth Grahame

“...the weather was atrocious. A frightful storm burst upon us. We camped literally in water...To cap our woe, there was no means to light…

— Leonce Patry

“The colors were brighter, the air was fresher, and the flowers more beautiful than any that the teens had ever seen.”

— J.L. Marrain

“They were frisky, eager and exuberant, and they had all been friends in the States. They were plainly unthinkable. They were noisy, overconfident, empty-headed…

— Joseph Heller

“I was vaguely worried about how they would cope with wandering the desert of adulthood without the other's hand to hold, but then I…

— Nick Burd

“ease up. the day was rued when we came upon it, or when it came upon us, and beheld us marring the horizon, sitting…

— Padgett Powell

“I leaned agains the warm brick wall and gazed up. It was a bright, cloudless day, the sky a mocking blue. It was the…

— Tracy Chevalier

“Rob chuckles, “I’m not some sparkly-skinned, jealous, child whose sensibilities are still stuck at the turn of the twentieth century. Eve, I can adapt.…

— Angela Louise McGurk

“I forgot that with the green, the plushness, and shiny plant life that pushed up and surrounded us, with the nourishment it provided came—the…

— Lauren Nicolle Taylor

“The air smelled of salt and sand and fish. As though all was peace, and harvesttime, and autumn nights. Not the end of everything.”

— Julie Berry

“It was a balancing act, to hold off quarrel and worry, the coming years, the coming months, even tomorrow morning for just whatever time…

— Alice McDermott