⧫ And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
⧫ Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair...
― Susan Polis Schutz
⧫ When I figured out how to work my grill, it was quite a moment. I discovered that summer is a completely different experience when you know how to grill.
—Taylor Swift
⧫ One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle
⧫ Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizzle like the wires inside a lightbulb. And there exudes a sour extra-human smell that makes the very stone seem flesh-alive, webbed and pulsing.
―Truman Capote, Summer Crossing
⧫ 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
⧫ 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
⧫ I like summer. I like warmer weather and long days. I’m one of those silly people who still enjoy lying in the sun—my children are horrified!
—Danielle Steel
⧫ In the long dusks of summer, we walked the suburban streets through scents of maple and cut grass, waiting for something to happen.
―Steven Millhauser, Dangerous Laughter
⧫ Now the windows, blinded by the glare of the empty square, had fallen asleep. The balconies declared their emptiness to heaven; the open doorways smelt of coolness and wine.
―Bruno Schulz, The Street of Crocodiles
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