Summer quotations

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◆ summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people. for those few months, you're not required to be who everyone thinks you are, and that cut-grass smell in the air and the chance to dive into the deep end of a pool give you a courage you don't have the rest of the year. you can be grateful and easy, with no eyes on you, and no past. summer just opens the door and lets you out.

- Deb Caletti99

◆ Au milieu de l'hiver, j'apprenais enfin qu'il y avait en moi un été invincible.

- Albert Camus99

◆ Summer bachelors like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

- Nora Ephron99

◆ Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

- John Lubbock99

◆ One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.

- Jeannette Walls99

◆ Julian said the world was evil and horrible - remember? But then he proved himself that it wasn't

- L.J. Smith99

◆ Sweet, sweet burn of sun and summer wind, and you my friend, my new fun thing, my summer fling.

- k.d. lang99

◆ Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair...

- Susan Polis Schutz99

◆ Summertime is always the best of what might be.

- Charles Bowden99

◆ All in all, it was a never-to-be-forgotten summer — one of those summers which come seldom into any life, but leave a rich heritage of beautiful memories in their going — one of those summers which, in a fortunate combination of delightful weather, delightful friends and delightful doing, come as near to perfection as anything can come in this world.

- L.M. Montgomery99

◆ The first week of August hangs at the very top of the summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color. Often at night there is lightning, but it quivers all alone. There is no thunder, no relieving rain. These are strange and breathless days, the dog days, when people are led to do things they are sure to be sorry for after.

- Natalie Babbitt99

◆ Even so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I really loved rock 'n' roll. Tears were warm, and girls were beautiful, like dreams. I liked movie theaters, the darkness and intimacy, and I liked the deep, sad summer nights.

- Haruki Murakami99

◆ I was surrounded by friends, my work was immense, and pleasures were abundant. Life, now, was unfolding before me, constantly and visibly, like the flowers of summer that drop fanlike petals on eternal soil. Overall, I was happiest to be alone; for it was then I was most aware of what I possessed. Free to look out over the rooftops of the city. Happy to be alone in the company of friends, the company of lovers and strangers. Everything, I decided, in this life, was pure pleasure.

- Roman Payne99

◆ It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer.

- Anna Godbersen99

◆ My favorite thing about summer is having a valid excuse for my excessive sweating.

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