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Quotes About Summer

It was just as summer arrived that I met an old man named Fugui.
~ Yu Hua
Again and again, the cicada's untiring cry pierced the sultry summer air like a needle at work on thick cotton cloth.
~ Yukio Mishima
More than anything else, Kiyoaki thought, more than Princess Chan, the emerald ring, their friends, their school, perhaps what the princes had needed had been sunshine. It seemed that summer had the power to heal all frustrations, soothe every grief, restore their lost happiness.
~ Yukio Mishima
Great cloud masses boiled up, immense in their quiet majesty. They seemed to drink up all the noise below, even the sound of the sea. It was the height of summer and there was anger in the rays of the sun.
~ Yukio Mishima
It was a bright, quiet garden, without striking features. Like a rosary rubbed between the hands, the shrilling of cicadas held sway. There was no other sound. The garden was empty. He had come, thought Honda, to a place that had no memories, nothing. The noontide sun of summer flowed over the still garden.
~ Yukio Mishima
In the loneliness of ????, one thinks longingly of ????. Memories of ???? threw an even sharper ???? across their lives. And yet the memories had come to seem like something out of a storybook. There was no avoiding the ???? that, around the ???? ?????, everything took on an ?????? of fiction.
~ Yukio Mishima
There was no other sound. The garden was empty. He had come, thought Honda, to a place with no memories, nothing. The noontide sun of summer flowered over the still garden.
~ Yukio Mishima
If only summer would end. The very word "summer" carried with it festering thoughts of death. And in the evening sun she felt a festering warmth.
~ Yukio Mishima
I like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its leaves are a little yellow, its tone mellower, its colours richer, and it is tinged a little with sorrow and a premonition of death. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor of the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and is content.
~ yutang lin ii
We walked at night towards a cafe blooming with Japanese lanterns and I followed your white shoes gleaming like radium in the damp darkness. Rising off the water, lights flickered an invitation far enough away to be interpreted as we liked; to shimmer glamourously behind the silhouette of retrospective good times when we still believed in summer hotels and the philosophies of popular songs.
~ Zelda Fitzgerald
I play the radio and moon about...and dream of Utopias where its always July the 24th 1935, in the middle of summer forever.
~ Zelda Fitzgerald
Life has puffed and blown itself into a summer day, and clouds and spring billow over the heavens as if calendars were a listing of mathematical errors.
~ Zelda Fitzgerald
Thinking these things made space and time around her, the way saying 'only June' had when she was a child hoarding summer.
~ Zibby Oneal
During the previous summer U.S. public health workers had accidentally killed four sailors, on two different foreign vessels, by fumigating against possible plague-carrying rats.
~ Deborah Blum
when they summered in Newport, they embraced the simple life.
~ Deborah Davis
It smelt of coconut ice cream and sweat and the Mediterranean sea. I
~ Deborah Levy
She is drinking peach tea in the plaza and she is too hot because her blue and black checked shirt is for winter not for summer in Andalucía. I think she thinks she's a cowboy in her work shirt, always alone with no one to look at the mountain horizon at night and say my god those stars.
~ Deborah Levy
I like to pic-a-nic more than a bee likes to bumble.
~ Deborah Wiles
I think we'd better go." Her breath fluttered the folds along the front of her bodice. A subtle scent of summer berries teased his nose. "Aren't you the least bit curious?" "Yes," she whispered. Bending his elbows, he leaned down. She placed her fingers against his lips. "I think we'd better go." Stopping his descent, he took the end of her finger into his mouth and grazed it with his teeth, then kissed it.
~ Deeanne Gist
A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window.
~ Dejan Stojanovic
August in East Tennessee is a sweaty panting mutt, breathing down a dust-caked neck that has been baked by the southern sun.
~ Denise Kiernan
tree with a tall thin glass of minted ice tea and a
~ Denise Nicholas
America may be the best country in the world, but that's kind of like being the valedictorian of summer school.
~ Dennis Miller
On every June 21, the Summer Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, I remember this unforgettable line from Albert Camus: 'In the depth of Winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible Summer.' It's true that we often discover our true strength only during the most challenging phases of life. We must keep alive and rekindled that divine spark of Stregth that is always within us, invincible and indestructible, as we welcome Summer on June 21 every year.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate