Historical Quote by Stephanie Barron

“It was a still afternoon - the golden light was lingering languidly among the upper boughs, only glancing down here and there on the…

— George Eliot

“There was so much time that marvelous summer. Day after day, mist rose from the meadow as the sky lightened and hedges, barns and…

— J.L. Carr

“My soul was like a summer evening, after a heavy fall of rain, when the drops are yet glistening on the trees in the…

— George MacDonald

“Here, Earth-born, over the lilt of the water, Lisping its music and bearing a burden of light, Bosoming day as a laughing and radiant…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Somehow, the days of summer with their glimmering enchantment of dancing ladybugs and sailing clouds had faded into grey. Maddie’s heart had somehow faded…

— David Paul Kirkpatrick

“The unchecked growth of many summers, rising and declining, has lessened the penetration of the light in a way one rarely sees in farmland…

— J.A. Baker

“Holding the bread to her chest, she made her way home, thinking of those dreamy winter afternoons, when the light looked as it did…

— Alexis Landau

“When she reached the house the sun had turned the morning air into a shimmering mirage of heat and dust devils. Hannah wished the…

— Barbara Keating

“She went and stood at an open window and looked out upon the deep tangle of the garden below. All the mystery and witchery…

— Kate Chopin

“So I tom-peeped across the hedges of years, into wan little windows. And when, by means of pitifully ardent, naively lascivious caresses, she of…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Time and again the sun sets like a bedimming curtain before my eyes, taking with it all illumination, warmth, and color.  I am overwhelmed…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“One autumn night, five years before, they had been walking down the street when the leaves were falling, and they came to a place…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald