Afternoon Quote by Alice Hoffman

“Bay remembered the Waverley house full of pumpkin pie scents in the fall. There had been mountains of maple cakes with violets hidden inside,…

— Sarah Addison Allen

The nostalgic notion of the family orchards is lovely - all that wholesome fruit for our forebears to sit on the back steps biting…

— Barbara Holland

The yard was full of tomato plants about to ripen, and mint, mint, everything smelling of mint, and one fine old tree that I…

— Jack Kerouac

“In May, when the grass was so green it hurt to look at it, the air so overpoweringly sweet you had to go in…

— Jane Hamilton

The smell of apple pies didn't quite fill the house, but it was there, a thread under everything else. It was kind of hard…

— Lilith Saintcrow

“The poulterers' shops were still half open, and the fruiterers' were radiant in their glory. There were great, round, pot-bellied baskets of chestnuts, shaped…

— Charles Dickens

“Back then, come July, and the blazers would again make their way out of the steel trunks and evenings would be spent looking at…

— Kunal Sen

“The air was fresh and crisp and had a distinct smell which was a mixture of the dried leaves on the ground and the…

— Arlene Stafford-Wilson

“There was gray train smoke over the town most days, it smelled of travel, of transcontinental trains about to flash by, of important things…

— Dawn Powell

“Everywhere the grain stood ripe and the hot afternoon was full of the smell of the ripe wheat, like the smell of bread baking…

— Willa Cather

To me, nothing tastes more like summer than peach pie. I began collecting pie recipes from friends and family while I was still working…

— Sarah Weeks

“Hampshire was dressed in scarlet and brilliant orange, the hounds were out four mornings a week, and the last baskets of fruit had been…

— Lisa Kleypas