Long wait Quote by Anne McCabe

“Up in Shirley Falls, spring was slower to arrive. Nights were cold, but the way the dawn light cracked open along the horizon, bringing…

— Elizabeth Strout

“when summer was still a word plump and generous and there was actual sunshine and time was impossibly deliciously luxuriously long and the idea…

— Niall Williams

“she can remember everyone admiring a rare kind of evening they spoke of as something they ought to save from oblivion to describe to…

— Marguerite Duras

“What made Madeleine sit up in bed was something closer to the reason she read books in the first place and had always loved…

— Jeffrey Eugenides The Marriage Plot

“Summer is a gentleman: slowly warming the earth at length before undressing her in the fall.”

— Curtis Tyrone Jones

“Mary watched the sunset from her carriage window, realizing that such beauty could never last. Life was a golden glory that faded in the…

— Margaret George

“Before the house-maid had lit the fire the next day, or the sun gained any power over the cold, gloomy morning in January, Marianne,…

— Jane Austen

“Anna drove with the window rolled down, breathing in the essence of autumn: an exhalation of a forest readying itself for sleep, a smell…

— Nevada Barr

“She breathed deeply, and for full ten minutes stood there, like a watered plant drawing up the food of its vitality. The scent was…

— John Galsworthy

“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

“They sat for several hours over a pot of tea and a plate of cake, and then they wandered the streets, impervious to time.…

— Penelope Lively

“She felt vaguely upset and unsettled. She was suddenly tired of outworn dreams. And in the garden the petals of the last red rose…

— L.M. Montgomery