“It was a broiling afternoon of mid-August in Brinoe and everybody who was anybody had long ago quit its burning pavements and chilly palaces for the mountains or the sea.” LongBookSeaMountainQuittingBurningAfternoonLong AgoPalacesAugustPavementChilly Author:Louis Bromfield
“...she had come long ago to understand that loneliness was the curse of those who were free, even of all those who rose a little above the level of ordinary humanity.” LittlesLongHumanityLevelsLonelinessOrdinaryRoseCurseLong Ago Book:The Green Bay Tree Early Autums A Good Woman . Source: The Green Bay Tree Early Autums A Good Woman .