Summer Quotes

It is not summer, England doesn't have summer, it has continuous autumn with a fortnight's variation here and there.

~ Natasha Pulley

It was the twenty-first of June and Bitsy announced a Summer Solstice party.

~ Julia Fierro

With each mile we put behind us, I felt the air grow lighter in my lungs. It was as if the city had been one large pressure cooker, simmering in its own juices. With the top down on the coupe and a stalwart, man-made breeze blowing steadily in my face, I tallied the city's many summertime brutalities: the heat that radiated from the gray asphalt and made the air dance in wavy shimmers; the stagnant ponds in Central Park that turned a milky, putrid, almost phosphorescent green and incubated countless mosquitoes; the blasts of hot dirty air that breathed upward from every subway grate; oh, and how the loud noises pouring from construction sites even somehow seemed to further agitate and heat the air!

~ Suzanne Rindell

you're the fly on the wall hearing all, seeing allears of a wall hearing all the secretsperhaps you're the vines creeping over the old abandoned mansion wallsdusty, soulless and deadbringing a certain curious life to rubbleand I think you're the jewel-eyed geckosneaking around the warm summer wallsbetween jasmine and olive branchessticky pad toes, clinging to the wallspeeking in at lonely summer spicy love-makingthrough silk curtains from the bright orientbreathing in incense and tasting decadenceclimbing the sharply barbed wallsthe smooth cemented white-washed wallsbecause walls breathe too

~ Moonshine Noire

The outside world might have finally turned into autumn, but inside the Waverley house it still smelled of summer. It was lemon verbena day, so the house was filled with a sweet-tart that conjured images of picnic blankets and white clouds like true-love hearts.

~ Sarah Addison Allen

We came out on Coldra Crescent, one of those warm air nights, stars spitting in the sky like firebugs stuck on a big black velvet rump. A summer night to make anybody with standard glands feel that tidy homes, spring mattresses, four guaranteed meals per day, and legalised religion were all criminal to human development.

~ Ron Berry

From Summer's EndWhat we have is enough. It's more than we consciously realized.

~ Sally Henson

We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage. We will welcome summer's ghost.

~ Heny Rollins

There had once been a time when I'd dreaded the end of summer, had prayed it would hold out for as long as possible. Now the thought of endless warmth and sun made me . . . bored. Restless.

~ Sarah J. Maas

Autumn stomps around outside the houselike an annoying little sister, tappingon all the shutters, kicking up the pilesof leaves you rake, pretending to howllike a wolf. But I'm glad she's here,so we can cuss at Summer together,pretending we don't even remember her name.

~ Karen Finneyfrock

August was nearly over - the month of apples and falling stars, the last care-free month for the school children. The days were not hot, but sunny and limpidly clear - the first sign of advancing autumn.

~ Victor Nekrasov

But, standing in the fading golden sunlight now, I can feel some of the scars of the summer stabbing over. I can feel the promise of a new beginning.

~ Aimee Friedman

Summer’s a total cocktease.” He shrugs, repeating himself. “It always ends.” He’s right about that. Summer always ends.

~ Sarina Bowen

Suddenly, she gave a little half-smile and whispered dreamily; When I was a little girl, here for the summer, I used to ride my bicycle to Mass.I know; the Karê wanted to say. I used to watch you.

~ L.j. Maas

There's this magical sense of possibility that stretches like a bridge between June and August. A sense that anything can happen.

~ Aimee Friedman

The dreamy days and sticky nights of summer were already calling, as if anything could happen.

~ C.j. Carlyon

I believe someone made a grievous mistake when summer was created, no novitiate or god in their right mind would make a season akin to hell on purpose. Someone should be fired.

~ Michelle Franklin

And they left the mellow light of the dandelion wine and went upstairs to carry out the last few rituals of summer, for they felt that now the final day, the final night had come. As the day grew late they realized that for two or three nights now, porches had emptied early of their inhabitants. The air hard a different, drier smell and Grandma was talking of hot coffee instead of iced tea; the open, white-flutter-curtained windows were closing in the great bays; cold cuts were giving way to steamed beef. The mosquitos were gone from the porch, and surely when they abandoned the conflict the war with Time was really done, there was nothing for it but that humans also forsake the battleground.

~ Ray Bradbury

Those stories were the sound track of my summer with you.

~ Sarah Addison Allen

Sitting in seat 14A, in the sun, I float on a full-moon, tidal joy unlike anything I've ever experienced. I am getting incredibly high on a single, astounding fact: that it's always sunny above the clouds. Always. That every day on Earth- every day I have ever had- was secretly sunny after all....I feel like I've just flown 600 miles per hour head-on into the most beautiful metaphor of my life: If you fly high enough, if you get above the clouds, it's never-ending summer.

~ Caitlin Moran

Don’t forget the snow in the summertime, because you will meet him again when the summer is over!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

June dawns, July noons, August evenings over, finished, done, and gone forever with only the sense of it all left here in his head. Now, a whole autumn, a white winter, a cool and greening spring to figure sums and totals of summer past. And if he should forget, the dandelion wine stood in the cellar, numbered huge for each and every day. He would go there often, stare straight into the sun until he could stare no more, then close his eyes and consider the burned spots, the fleeting scars left dancing on his warm eyelids; arranging, rearranging each fire and reflection until the pattern was clear...So thinking, he slept.And, sleeping, put an end to Summer, 1928.

~ Ray Bradbury

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

Laying in a hammock, darkness surrounds me.

~ Fida Islaih

If I had to describe the scent of Michigan in spring and summer, it wouldn't be aparticular smell – blooming wildflowers or boat exhaust off the lake – it would be a color: Green.

~ Viola Shipman

Anything that lives here has to be just as harsh and determined as the sun, born of a fiery stubbornness that is either extremely brave or extremely stupid.

~ Sara Raasch

I am cold, even though the heat of early summer is adequate. I am cold because I cannot find my heart.

~ Sebastian Barry

They say it'll be even hotter tomorrow. that's how we spend the summer. complaining about the heat.

~ Yōko Ogawa

circle back, you're nearly through.The next one, then just one more clue. Summer's coming, dark and drear,Soon those tourists will appear.In the word hoard you will findBooks with numbers on the spines.A 2 a 9 a 2 again-Not too easy for Athena's friend.

~ Megan Frazer Blakemore

Traigh came to help her dismount, a broad smile making creases around his eyes. “I fear ye missed our summer, Joie.” Her brow drew in with confusion. “But it is summer, Traigh,” she told him. “Aye, it might well be summer elsewhere in the world, but here, it only last three days. We had our summer last week.

~ Suzan Tisdale

Zoe's mom liked to send silly postcards that made her laugh, but they usually dwindled as the summer wore on.

~ Christine Brodien-Jones

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

The whole summer was inside of us.

~ Leah Raeder

Summer was a book of hope. That's why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe.

~ Benjamin Alire Sáenz

It was a beautiful summer afternoon, at that delicious period of the year when summer has just burst forth from the growth of spring; when the summer is yet but three days old, and all the various shades of green which nature can put forth are still in their unsoiled purity of freshness.

~ Anthony Trollope

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 time for equivocation has passed. You can stop this at any point by telling me we will rule the court apart from a distance, but until you do so-he let liquid sunlight drip onto her skin-I'm playing for keeps. I'm not a mortal, Aislinn. I'm the Summer King, and I'm done pretending to be anything other than that.He leaned down and said, We could be amazing together.Then he was gone.

~ Melissa Marr

Somewhere I read that human beings are the only creatures to spend the present driving themselves crazy about the future.

~ Nancy Thayer

Sophie felt as if she were encased in a glass globe called summer.

~ Nancy Thayer

The smell of hyacinths in the summer night air. At this moment, standing here with a boy I just met who already feels like home, I am overwhelmed with city love.

~ Susane Colasanti