Elizabeth Enright

Quotes

• “Summer was over in twenty minutes that day. Finished. At four o'clock in the afternoon the roses were quiet on their ste...”
• “By lunchtime the valley was lightly coated, like a cake with confectioner's sugar...there was white fur on the antlers o...”
• “Self-pity is the hens' besetting sin," remarked Mr. Payton. "Foolish fowl. How they came to achieve anything as perfect ...”
• “Already he knew that to overdo a thing is to destroy it.”