#afternoon

Christopher heard a pair of women gossiping nearby, whispering in disapproving undertones. "... Ramsey was found flirting in a corner with a woman. They had to drag him away from her." "Who was it?" "His own wife." "Oh, dear. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#hathaways #love #love-in-the-afternoon #marriage #love

... millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. ↗

— Susan Ertz

#boredom #immortality #life #rain #sunday

My aunt had a season ticket for the Friday afternoon concerts, and I would go down for lessons. My lessons were Saturday morning. ↗

— Robert Ripley

#aunt #concerts #down #friday #friday afternoon

The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories. ↗

— Saki

#eccentric #golden-afternoon #humor #saki #twentieth-century

And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay. ↗

— George Washington Cable

#darkened #decay #entered #gigantic #hung

Late afternoon on the West Coast ends with the sky doing all its brilliant stuff. ↗

— Joan Didion

#brilliant #coast #doing #ends #late

A lifetime with such a woman was not nearly enough. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#christopher #hathaways #kleypas-hero #love-in-the-afternoon #love

I beg your pardon?” Catherine interrupted. “Are you implying that women have poor judgment?” “In these matters, yes.” Leo gestured to Christopher. “Just look at the fellow, standing there like a bloody Greek god. Do you think she chose him because of his intellect?” “I graduated from Cambridge,” Christopher said acidly. “Should I have brought my diploma?” “In this family,” Cam interrupted, “there is no requirement of a university degree to prove one’s intelligence. Lord Ramsay is a perfect example of how one has nothing to do with the other? ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#lisa-kleypas #love-in-the-afternoon #family

I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#awake #coffee #drink #drink coffee #find

I run in the morning, lift weights in the afternoon, basketball training at night, and then lift weights again at night. ↗

— Lil' Romeo

#again #basketball #i #lift #morning