A day was twenty-four hours long but seemed longer (Lee)
June 26th, 2006 | Published in Community, Life, Quotes, Culture
People moved slowly then. They ambled across the square, shuffled in and out of the stores around it, took their time about everything. A day was twenty-four hours long but seemed longer. There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with…
–Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), p. 6