Money Quote by George Eliot

“The days were longer then (for time, like money, is measured by our needs), when summer afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly…

— George Eliot Middlemarch

“I thought of summer as the living time; the rest of the year was the backward time, the writing time.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

“This why days are longer in the summer.”

— Alexander G. Michaels

“He might have been compared to a summer's day, particularly the last hours of one.”

— John Cheever

“Summer was on the way; Jem and I awaited it with impatience. Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened…

— Harper Lee

In comparing these two writers, he [Samuel Johnson] used this expression: "that there was as great a difference between them as between a man…

— James Boswell

“For me, it was almost like winter didn’t count. Summer was what mattered. My whole life was measured in summers.”

— Jenny Han

“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

“Did I live the spring I’d sought? It’s true in joy, I walked along, took part in dance, and sang the song. and never…

— Roman Payne

“For me, it was almost like winter didn't count. Summer was what mattered. My whole life was measured in summers. Like I don't really…

— Jenny Han

“But the summer had been a very happy one, too -- a time of glad living with summer suns and skies, a time of…

— L.M. Montgomery

“not sit while the wind went by. Is the literary man to live always or chiefly sitting in a chamber through which nature enters…

— Henry David Thoreau