Afternoon Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones…

— Herman Hesse

“Being Tranquil didn't sound so bad to him. He'd been terrified of being swallowed up by the darkness for so long it seemed like…

— David Gaider

“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

There they lay, but not in the forgetfulness of the previous night. She was seeking and he was seeking, they raged and contorted their…

— Franz Kafka

“They were beyond the present, outside time, with no memories and no future. There was nothing but obliterating sensation, thrilling and swelling, and the…

— Ian McEwan

“The air was cold and wet, and if you stood still for a moment the chilling damp would creep into your bones. I could…

— Charlaine Harris

There was enough tension in the room to send a fleet of the nervous running for their tranquilizers.

— Charlaine Harris

A tranquil summer sunset shone upon him as he approached the end of his walk, and passed through the meadows by the river side.…

— Charles Dickens

The day had been spent in the expectation of these hours, and now they were crumbling away, becoming, in their turn, another period of…

— Simone de Beauvoir

The faintest gleam of their lost memories glimmered for the briefest moment in their hearts.

— Haruki Murakami

Memories, how they linger in the twilight and in the wee small hours sometimes just before dawn.

— Van Morrison

“Much of that afternoon remains an intense blur: Maybe extremes of pleasure and pain are just too much for the memory to handle, which…

— Catherine Sanderson