Afternoon Quote by Joan Didion

“Why must we look inward, and only inward, as if the world ends where the sky begins?”

— Frances Hardinge

“Well, I am going back into the open air, to see what the wind and sky are doing!”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

I need an hour alone before dinner, with a drink, to go over what I've done that day. I can't do it late in…

— Joan Didion

Lancaster, California ... that promised land sometimes called 'the west coast of Iowa.

— Joan Didion

California: The west coast of Iowa.

— Joan Didion

“Surely the colour of London was an exquisite thing. It was like a pearl that late afternoon, something very gentle and pale, with faint…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

“He was almost a poet in his old age and his notion of what happened took a poetic turn. 'I had come to the…

— Sherwood Anderson

“The heat of late afternoon closed in around us like an animate thing; you could feel it on your skin, warm and moist, like…

— Geraldine Brooks

I'm so alive. As I stand facing the beauty of the never-ending Pacific Ocean, a late afternoon breeze blows down from the hills behind.…

— Dave Pelzer

It's of being alone with my dad. He drove a truck for a living. But he had a few free hours in the middle…

— Mark Wahlberg

“Late afternoon arrives, and I’m still unshowered and in my robe. The feel and smell and taste of Esben are all over me, and…

— Jessica Park

“There was no movement around the discoloured walls, and Lucy turned the Land Rover about in a slow crawl, the tires crunching on the…

— James Swallow