1. “Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August.”
— Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty
2. “In the summer, the days were long, stretching into each other. Out of school, everything was on pause and yet happening at the same time, this collection of weeks when anything was possible.” ― Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride
3. “The only way I could describe what kissing him felt like was, like the last day of school, knowing that months of freedom and sunshine lay before you, the feeling that you could do anything you wanted and time stretched out in endless possibilities.”― Robin Benway, Emmy & Oliver
4. “Summer afternoon — summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
― Henry James, quoted in Edith Wharton’s A Backward Glance
5. “Summer was here again. Summer, summer, summer. I loved and hated summers. Summers had a logic all their own and they always brought something out in me. Summer was supposed to be about freedom and youth and no school and possibilities and adventure and exploration. Summer was a book of hope. That’s why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
6. “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 Caletti, Honey, Baby, Sweetheart
7. “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 Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
8. “Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me.” ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Last Night I Sang to the Monster
9. “We thread our way through a moving forest of ice-cream cones and crimson thighs.”
― Jean-Dominique Bauby, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
10. “I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay
11. “What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
12. “Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” ― Henry James
13. “Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
14. “One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle
15. “Summertime is always the best of what might be.” ― Charles Bowden
16. “Summer bachelors like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.”
― Nora Ephron
17. “Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me.” ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Last Night I Sang to the Monster
18. “I love how summer just wraps it’s arms around you like a warm blanket.” ― Kellie Elmore
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