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“Summer was here again. Summer, summer, summer. I loved and hated summers. Summers had a logic all their own and they always brought something out in me. Summer was supposed to be about freedom and youth and no school and possibilities and adventure and exploration. Summer was a book of hope. That's…”

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“When you lose someone, you get used to living day to day without them. But you’ll never get used to the ‘10 second heartbreak.’ That’s the time it takes to wake to full consciousness each day and remember.”

— Nina Guilbeau, Too Many Sisters

“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.”

— John Lubbock, The Use of Life

“All in all, it was a never-to-be-forgotten summer — one of those summers which come seldom into any life, but leave a rich heritage of beautiful memories in their going — one of those summers which, in a fortunate combination of delightful weather, delightful friends and delightful doing, come as ne…”

— L. M. Montgomery, Anne's House Of Dreams

“It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.”

— Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy-Tacy and Tib

“Summertime is always the best of what might be.”

— Charles Bowden, via Pinterest

“Everyone keeps telling me that time heals all wounds, but no one can tell me what I’m supposed to do right now. Right now I can’t sleep. It’s right now that I can’t eat. Right now I still hear his voice and sense his presence even though I know he’s not here. Right now all I seem to do is cry. I kno…”

— Nina Guilbeau, Too Many Sisters

“When you lose someone you were close to, you have to reassess your picture of the world and your place in it. The more your identity was wrapped up with the deceased, the more difficult the loss.”

— Meghan O'Rourke, The Long Goodbye: A Memoir

“Come with me,' Mom says. To the library. Books and summertime go together.”

— Lisa Schroeder, I Heart You, You Haunt Me

“Grief is a house where no one can protect you where the younger sister will grow older than the older one where the doors no longer let you in or out.”

— Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere

“See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it.”

— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“Unless you have been very, very lucky, you have undoubtedly experienced events in your life that have made you cry. So unless you have been very, very lucky, you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.”

— 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)

“It's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... it's summertime!”

— Kenny Chesney, Summertime

“Some people, they can't just move on, you know, mourn and cry and be done with it. Or at least seem to be. But for me... I don't know. I didn't want to fix it, to forget. It wasn't something that was broken. It's just... something that happened. And like that hole, I'm just finding ways, every day,…”

— Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

“Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair.”

— Susan Polis Schutz, via Pinterest

“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”

— Henry James, Backward Glance

“It’s summer when she smiles, I’m laughing like a child, / It’s the summer of our lives; we’ll contain it for a while / She holds the heat, the breeze of summer in the circle of her hand / I’d be happy with this summer if it’s all we ever had.”

— Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

“Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.”

— Regina Brett, via Pinterest

“To put that into perspective, there are more mentions of LeBron James, yoga and NBC’s Saturday Night Live than the Russian Nuclear Agency in Clinton’s emails deemed ‘official.’”

— Peter Schweizer, The Strange Gaps in Hillary Clinton’s Email Traffic

“Aaah, summer - that long anticipated stretch of lazy, lingering days, free of responsibility and rife with possibility. It's a time to hunt for insects, master handstands, practice swimming strokes, conquer trees, explore nooks and crannies, and make new friends.”

— Darrell Hammond, via Summer Love Notes