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“Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me.”

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Last Night I Sang to the Monster

“We thread our way through a moving forest of ice-cream cones and crimson thighs.”

— Jean-Dominique Bauby, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

“Grief is a most peculiar thing; we’re so helpless in the face of it. It’s like a window that will simply open of its own accord. The room grows cold, and we can do nothing but shiver. But it opens a little less each time, and a little less; and one day we wonder what has become of it.”

— Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel

“It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer.”

— Anna Godbersen, Bright Young Things

“You can not die of grief, though it feels as if you can. A heart does not actually break, though sometimes your chest aches as if it is breaking. Grief dims with time. It is the way of things. There comes a day when you smile again, and you feel like a traitor. How dare I feel happy. How dare I be g…”

— Laurell K. Hamilton, Dead Ice (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter)

“Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and will be able to eat breakfast, and doesn't hear her husband's ghost all the time, but only some of the time. Her grief is replaced with a useful sadness. Every parent wh…”

— Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel

“The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever.”

— E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“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, Emmy & Oliver

“Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now ha…”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

“Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the tree house; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape.”

— Harper Lee, Scout, To Kill A Mockingbird

“There should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rulebook that says it is all right to wake up crying, but only for a month. That after 42 days you will no longer turn with your heart racing, certain you have heard her call out your name. That there will be no fine imposed if you feel the need to…”

— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“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.”

— Truman Capote, Summer Crossing

“So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.”

— E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

“Grief can destroy you --or focus you. You can decide a relationship was all for nothing if it had to end in death, and you alone. Or you can realize that every moment of it had more meaning than you dared to recognize at the time, so much meaning it scared you, so you just lived, just took for grant…”

— Dean Koontz, Odd Hours

“Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.”

— C. Day Lewis, via Instagram

“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

“It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom…”

— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events Lemony Snicket 13 Books Collection Pack Set (Includes the Bad Beginning, the Reptile Room, the Wide Window, the Miserable Mill, the Austere Academy, the Grim Grotto, the Penultimate Peril, the End)

“Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August.”

— Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”

— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”

— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter Paperback Box Set (Books 1-7)