“The cool bathed his eyes and slowed the flight of time-time, that had crept so insidiously through the lazy April afternoons, seemed so intangible in the long spring twilights.”
“Long afterward Amory thought of sophomore spring as the happiest time of his life. His ideas were in tune with life as he found it; he wanted no more than to drift and dream and enjoy a dozen new-found friendships through the April afternoons.”
“So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.”
“..and why the winter suns so rush to bathe themselves in the seaand what slows down the nights to a long lingering crawl...”
“Every second he breathed, the smell of the grass, the cool air on his face, was so precious: To think that people had years and years, time to waste, so much time it dragged, and he was clinging to each second.”
“The April's in her eyes: it is love's Spring,And these the showers to bring it on..”