“Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.”
-Laura Ingalls Wilder
“The castle grounds were gleaming in the sunlight as though freshly painted; the cloudless sky smiled at itself in the smoothly sparkling lake, the satin-green lawns rippled occasionally in a gentle breeze: June had arrived.”
-J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
“If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe…”
-Evelyn Waugh
“I love how summer just wraps its arms around you like a warm blanket.”
-Kellie Elmore
“Summertime is always the best of what might be.”
-Charles Bowden
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with summer.”
-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.”
-John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And Summer’s lease hath all too short a date;”-William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18
“Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.”
-William Shakespeare, Sonnets
“Summer-induced stupidity. That was the diagnosis…”
-Aimee Friedman, Sea Change
