Indian summer is like a woman. Author: Grace Metalious Copy Quote More from Grace Metalious “...and often Lisa thought bitterly of the ideas she had held on "college life" …” “I'm a lousy writer; a helluva lot of people have got lousy taste.” “The public loves to create a hero....Sometimes I think they do it for the sheer…” “She saw hopelessness as an old enemy, as persistent and inevitable as death.”