Quotes by : Elizabeth Enright

Summer was over in twenty minutes that day. Finished. At four o'clock in the afternoon the roses were....

Self-pity is the hens' besetting sin," remarked Mr. Payton. "Foolish fowl. How they came to achieve anything....

By lunchtime the valley was lightly coated, like a cake with confectioner's sugar...there was white fur....

Already he knew that to overdo a thing is to destroy it.

The summer,' Randy explained. 'I'm going to appreciate it. I'm going to walk in the woods noticing everything,....

All over the city lights were coming on in the purple-blue dusk. The street lights looked delicate and....