Latest Quotes

“One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.”

— Jeanette Walls, The Glass Castle: A Memoir

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

— Maud Hart Lovelace, The Betsy-Tacy Treasury: The First Four Betsy-Tacy Books

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

— Charles Bowden, Quotes About Summer

“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.”

— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“Awakening to a stock market plunge and a precipitous decline in the value of the pound that Britain hasn't seen in more than 30 years, voters now face a series of economic shocks that analysts say will only worsen before they improve. The consequences of the leave vote will be felt worldwide, even h…”

— Brian Fung, The British are frantically Googling what the E.U. is, hours after voting to leave it

“Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.”

— Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (Spanish and English Edition)

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

— Susan Polis Schutz, Quotes About Summer

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

— Henry James, Quotes About Summer

“I fell for her in summer, my lovely summer girl, From summer she is made, my lovely summer girl, I’d love to spend a winter with my lovely summer girl, But I’m never warm enough for my lovely summer girl, It’s summer when she smiles, I’m laughing like a child, It’s the summer of our lives; we’ll con…”

— Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

“A good friend is someone who'd hide you if you were on the run for murder. How many of them do you know?”

— Lemmy Kilmister, 16 Bad Ass Quotes from Motorhead Frontman Lemmy Kilmister

“Brexit. Grexit. Departugal. Italeave. Fruckoff. Czechout. Oustria. Finish. Slovakout. Latervia. Byegium.”

— Rahul Goma Phulore, via twitter.com

“I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.”

— John Keats, Complete Poems and Selected Letters of John Keats (Modern Library Classics)

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Your best friend isn't the person you call when you are in jail; mostly likely, she is sitting in the cell beside you.”

— Irene S. Levine, Best Friends Forever: Surviving a Breakup with Your Best Friend

“What do you say to your best friend when you stand at the gates of hell? Nothing. If it’s your best friend, she already knows”

— Eliza Crewe, Crushed (Soul Eater) (Volume 2)

“That's the problem with best friends. Sometimes they know you better than you know yourself.”

— Cecily von Ziegesar, Nobody Does It Better

“A true friend is one you can go extended periods without seeing or talking to, yet the moment that you are back in touch, it's like no time has passed at all.”

— Ellie Wade, A Forever Kind of Love (Choices Series) (Volume 2)

“Ten minutes with a genuine friend is better than years spent with anyone less.”

— Crystal Woods, Write Like No One Is Reading

“That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart.”

— Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane

“They had battled and bloodied one another, they had kept secrets, broken hearts, lied, betrayed, exiled, they had walked away, said goodbye and sworn it was forever, and somehow, every time, they had mended, they had forgiven, they had survived. Some mistakes could never be fixed - some, but not all…”

— Robin Wasserman, Greed