“Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all…”
"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."
- Harper Lee
Love
"She did not stand alone, but what stood behind her, the most potent moral force in her life, was the love of her father."
- Harper Lee
Love
"Most people are nice when you finally see them."
- Harper Lee
Compassion
"Atticus, he was real nice.” “Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them."
- Harper Lee
Compassion
"Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."
- Harper Lee
Courage
"Christmas is a time when you get homesick, even when you're home."
- Carol Nelson
Nature
"We count down the days just to experience it nearly exactly as we always have. It is so comfortable, familiar and perfectly nostalgic that, frankly, we have no desire to improve upon it at all."
- Joanna Gaines
Nature
"The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood."
- Richard Paul Evans
Nature
"Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime."
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
Nature
"We count down the days just to experience it nearly exactly as we always have. It is so comfortable, familiar, and perfectly nostalgic that, frankly, we have no desire to improve upon it at all."
- Joanna Gaines
Nature