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“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 of Green Gables Gold Collection: All books from L.M. Montgomery and more (including Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea and an Extra Special Fan Section)

“Allowances can always be made for your friends to disagree with you. Disagreement, vehement disagreement, is healthy. Debate is impossible without it. Evil does not question itself, only hope questions itself. Even the incorruptible are corruptible if they cannot accept the possibility of being mist…”

— Craig Ferguson, Between the Bridge and the River

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

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

“Summer set lip to earth’s bosom bare; And left the flushed print in a poppy there: Like a yawn of fire from the grass it came, And the fanning wind puffed it to flapping flame.”

— Francis Thompson, Complete Poems of Francis Thompson

“My son and I are Americans, we prepare for glory by failing until we don't.”

— Craig Ferguson, American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

“Be careful who you choose as your hero or who you choose to deify, be it Clay Aiken or Barack Obama. You put all you're hope and all your dreams and all your ideas about stuff into one human being. They're a human being they're going to let you down.”

— Craig Ferguson, Between the Bridge and the River

“I didn't say no, because between safety and adventure I choose adventure.”

— Craig Ferguson, American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

“Maybe fear is God's way of saying, "Pay attention, this could be fun.”

— Craig Ferguson, American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

“The Universe is very, very big. It also loves a paradox. For example, it has some extremely strict rules. Rule number one: Nothing lasts forever. Not you or your family or your house or your planet or the sun. It is an absolute rule. Therefore when someone says that their love will never die, it mea…”

— Craig Ferguson, Between the Bridge and the River

“The morning heat had already soaked through the walls, rising up from the floor like a ghost of summers past.”

— Erik Tomblin, Riverside Blues

“The castle grounds were gleaming in the sunlight as though freshly painted; the cloudless sky smiled at itself in the smoothly sparkling lake, the satin-green lawns rippled occasionally in a gentle breeze: June had arrived.”

— J.K Rowling, Hogwarts Classics (Harry Potter)

“The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last for ever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year – the days when summer is changing into autumn – the crickets spread the rumor of sadness and change.”

— E. B. White, Charlotte's Web

“Friendship is really the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”

— Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of Au…”

— Natalie Babbit, Tuck Everlasting

“When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person.”

— Aimee Friedman, Sea Change

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

— Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

“In the long dusks of summer we walked the suburban streets through scents of maple and cut grass, waiting for something to happen.”

— Steven Millhauser, Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories (Vintage Contemporaries)

“New York is strange in the summer. Life goes on as usual but it’s not, it’s like everyone is just pretending, as if everyone has been cast as the star in a movie about their life, so they’re one step removed from it. And then in September it all gets normal again.”

— Peter Cameron, Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel

“Ô, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.”

— Roman Payne, Quotes About Summer

“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