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Quotes About Summer

he felt a pang of desire for the tintinnabulation of a Georgia summer. Strange, he thought, to long for the rasp of day- and dusk-singing cicadas and the night singers, katydids.
~ Marly Youmans
In my mind I heard Father Freeman, his head bowed, announcing the punishment 'Say ten Hail Marys and go to the Hotel Paradise every summer for the remainder of your life.
~ Martha Grimes
Today was the first day of summer, she realized, her spirits lifting like a kite. She loved milestones of any sort: birthdays, anniversaries, holidays, checks on the calendar, notches on a growth chart. Today would be special, brand new. She felt it deep inside. Summer was here with sunny days and balmy nights, the informality of barbecues and dips in the swimming pool. She was so relieved to have the grind of the school year finished. She missed playing with her children.
~ Mary Alice Monroe
Thank you, Lord, for allowing me to live another day." Then she smiled with introspection. "Another summer." For
~ Mary Alice Monroe
Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is more adapted for summer than for winter.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
ANN: Nobody was dressed so he drove over to the depot to pick up my brother. SUE: Oh, your brother's in? ANN: Yeah, they ought to be here any minute now. Will you have a cold drink? SUE: I will, thanks. Ann goes to table and pours. My husband. Too hot to drive me to beach.—Men are like little boys; for the neighbors they'll always cut the grass.
~ Arthur Miller
On the blue summer evenings, I will go along the paths, And walk over the short grass, as I am pricked by the wheat: Daydreaming I will feel the coolness on my feet. I will let the wind bathe my bare head. I will not speak, I will have no thoughts: But infinite love will mount in my soul; And I will go far, far off, like a gypsy, through the countryside - as happy as if I were with a woman. Sensation
~ Arthur Rimbaud
Still the Amaltas bloomed, a brilliant, defiant yellow. Each blazing summer it reached up and whispered to the hot brown sky, Fuck You.
~ Arundhati Roy
What bloody man is that, sir?" I tossed the paper in the grate, though there was no fire on this warm summer day. "Bartholomew, you are quoting from Macbeth, did you know? King Duncan in the first scene, which is ominous. He died rather horribly soon after.
~ Ashley Gardner
The summer day had turned hot, and I was sweating by the time I reached Russel Street and turned again to Covent Garden.
~ Ashley Gardner
The waitress was white, and the counter was white, and the ice cream I never ate in Washington, D. C. that summer I left childhood was white, and the white heat and the white pavement and the white stone monuments of my first Washington summer made me sick to my stomach for the whole rest of that trip and it wasn't much of a graduation present after all.
~ Audre Lorde
One shard of brilliant summer pierced me and remains. By this only unregenerate bone I am not dead, but waiting.
~ Audre Lorde
His laugh is made if porch swings and lemonade
~ Augusten Burroughs
Suddenly, this word fills me with a sense of sadness I haven't felt since childhood. The kind of sadness you feel at the end of summer. When the fireflies are gone, the ponds are all dried up and the plants are wilted. It's no longer really summer but the air is still too warm and heavy to be fall. It's the season between seasons. It's the feeling of something dying.
~ Augusten Burroughs
His laugh is made of porch swings and lemonade.
~ Augusten Burroughs
Nicholas Nabokov's first wife did all in her power to make the new arrivals comfortable, arranging for them to occupy the flat across the hall in her East Sixty-first Street brownstone until the Tolstoy Foundation located a summer sublet on upper Madison Avenue.
~ Stacy Schiff
Much of the rest of the summer and fall were devoted to the transcription of Invitation to a Beheading, a first draft of which Vladimir had written in a lightning two weeks, on Véra's return from the clinic. To his dismay the typing seemed to be taking an inordinate amount of time; in November an exhausted Véra was at the machine night and day. From outside the third-floor apartment, recalled Nabokov, "we heard Hitler's voice from rooftop loudspeakers.
~ Stacy Schiff
no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop your books and run like hell
~ Stephen Chbosky
No more pencils/no more books/no more teachers' dirty looks/when the teacher rings the bell/drop your books and run like hell.
~ Stephen Chbosky
No more pencils/no more books/no more teachers' dirty looks/when the teacher rings the bell/drop your books and run like hell. When
~ Stephen Chbosky
The summer movies are coming out. My advice: just stay home and burn a good book.
~ Stephen Colbert
Summer movie idea: take all the sequels that are out right now, and make movies about their backstories.
~ Stephen Colbert
But when fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays awhile like an old friend that you have missed. It settles in the way an old friend will settle into your favorite chair and take out his pipe and light it and then fill the afternoon with stories of places he has been and things he has done since last he saw you.
~ Stephen King
Everybody likes the ice cream man.
~ Stephen King