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Quotes About Summer

Blue!' she exclaimed. 'Violet blue. What are they made of?' 'Summer skies,' I said, 'and plums and figs, and the grape-blood of emperors.' 'No
~ Vladimir Nabokov
I leaf again and again through these miserable memories, and keep asking myself, was it then, in the glitter of that remote summer, that the rift in my life began; or was my excessive desire for that child only the first evidence of an inherent singularity?
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Hani bilirsiniz göÄŸe as?l? gibi duran gündüzlerin, etraf?nda su sinekleri uçuÅŸan, çiçekler açm?? bir çal?l???n çevresinde geliÅŸen, güzel, a??r kokulu öÄŸleden sonralar?n ya da bir tepeciÄŸin eteklerinde ba??boÅŸ gezerken dal?verip alt üst ettiÄŸiniz yaz akÅŸamüstlerinin s?cakl??? gibi; kürklü bir s?cakl?k, alt?n rengi su sinekleri...
~ Vladimir Nabokov
You lie — she's not." "I beg your pardon?" "I said: July was hot.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Everyone is beyond the beyond. Except Fred Lemish. Everyone's where they want to be. Except Fred Lemish. This is it. We've found it. This night of nights. This summer of our lives. Can it last till Tuesday? When's Tuesday?
~ Larry Kramer
The beautiful feet of the summer, So late by the woodland and rill, With slow, lingering movement are going Down the brown, southern slopes of the hills; Her dreamy-eyed sister, the autumn, Looks down at the summer-clad trees, And, 'neath her cool breathing, a garment Of brown is put on by the leaves.
~ lathrap mary t
It is beautiful, all, in its going, This wonderful, sweet summer time; The leaflets glide down through the sunshine, As poets thoughts glide into rhyme. Sweet Summer looks over her shoulder, And whispers once more her farewells-- I wonder if Peace will come with her When her feet are again on the hills.
~ lathrap mary t
Tomorrow when the farm boys find this freak of nature, they will wrap his body in newspaper and carry him to the museum. But tonight he is alive and in the north field with his mother. It is a perfect summer evening: the moon rising over the orchard, the wind in the grass. And as he stares into the sky, there are twice as many stars as usual.
~ Laura Gilpin
The Two-headed Calf Tomorrow when the farm boys find this freak of nature, they will wrap his body in newspaper and carry him to the museum. But tonight he is alive and in the north field with his mother. It is a perfect summer evening: the moon rising over the orchard, the wind in the grass. And as he stares into the sky, there are twice as many stars as usual.
~ Laura Gilpin
Nature is an alchemist, gathering the last of summer's green and turning it to gold."
~ Laura Jaworski
July, that lovely hell, all velvet dresses and drapes stuffed into a hot little hole.
~ Laura Kasischke
A knife plunged into the center of summer. Air and terror, which become teeth together.
~ Laura Kasischke
The urgent warnings: The dreamy terror of certain summer mornings.
~ Laura Kasischke
Oh, God, he was wearing his Tevas.
~ Laura Lippman
He turns on the radio and it's that goddamn song that's on the radio all the time this summer, the one about chasing waterfalls. No one chases a waterfall. You go for a swim and next thing you know, the current catches you and throws you right over.
~ Laura Lippman
We have to get through the summer.' Finn didn't want to get through the summer. He wanted to fall into it, hunker down and stay for a while.
~ Laura Ruby
You are spiky spring Humming Summer, wings that beat Back ghosts of winter.
~ Laura Ruby
can change the experience of a Tuesday, as you stare out at the summer sky, the stars, and the fireflies punctuating the darkness like little adventures can punctuate time.
~ Laura Vanderkam
This was nothing but an opportunity—an offer by an agent to represent them, but with no guarantee it would work. Still, Shear and Toomey decided to give it their best shot. They knew they needed more material, and the focus to write. So they took off for the Hamptons to bartend for the summer at Star Room, a club. They'd work until 4:00 a.m. most nights, and then haul themselves to Starbucks in the morning. "We just wrote all summer long," Shear says.
~ Laura Vanderkam
Their supplies consisted mainly of bread and wine, enough to last them the summer
~ Laurence Bergreen
I wish you always the joyous summer you deserve and blame you not for fleeing the stark winter you saw in me. -Stanton Horne, Lord Wyndham (in his letter to Lady Alicia)
~ Celeste Bradley
There shall be Eternal summer in the grateful heart.
~ Celia Thaxter
Della mia infanzia non mi restava altro che l'estate. Le vie strette che sbucavano nei campi da ogni parte, di giorno e di sera, erano i cancelli della vita e del mondo. Gran meraviglia se un'automobile strombettante, giunta da chissà dove, traversasse il paese, sulla strada maestra e dileguasse chi sa dove verso nuove città, verso il mare, sconvolgendo ragazzi e polvere
~ Cesare Pavese
Della mia infanzia non mi restava altro che l'estate. Le vie strette che sbucavano nei campi da ogni parte, di giorno e di sera, erano i cancelli della vita e del mondo.
~ Cesare Pavese