“It was kind of a beautiful day, finally real summer in Indianapolis, warm and humid--the kind of weather that reminds you after a long winter that while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world.”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.com
“At the beach, life is different. Time doesn't go hour to hour but mood to moment. We live by the currents, plan by the tides, and follow the sun.”— kristennwalterss, kristennwalterss.tumblr.com
“A good swimming pool could do that — make the rest of the world seem impossibly insignificant, as far away as the surface of the moon.”— Emma Straub, amazon.com
“What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.”— Gertrude Jekyll, amazon.com
“We thread our way through a moving forest of ice-cream cones and crimson thighs.”— Jean-Dominique Bauby, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.”— C. Day Lewis, instagram.com
“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, amazon.com
“How sweet I roamed from field to field, and tasted all the summer's pride.”— William Blake, poetryfoundation.org
“Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.”— Ada Louise Huxtable, amazon.com
“A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.”— James Dent, pinterest.com
“I love how summer just wraps its arms around you like a warm blanket.”— Kellie Elmore, kellieelmore.tumblr.com
“I got my toes in the water, ass in the sand. Not a worry in the world, a cold beer in my hand. Life is good today. Life is good today.”— Zach Brown Band, youtube.com
“There was nothing like a Saturday - unless it was the Saturday leading up to the last week of school and into summer vacation. That of course was all the Saturdays of your life rolled into one big shiny ball.”— Nora Roberts, amazon.com
“We were bored, we were restless, we longed to be seized by any whim or passion and follow it to the farthest reaches of our natures. We wanted to live – to die – to burst into flame – to be transformed into angels or explosions. Only the mundane offended us, as if we secretly feared it was our desti…”— Steven Millhauser, amazon.com
“summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people. for those few months, you’re not required to be who everyone thinks you are, and that cut-grass smell in the air and the chance to dive into the deep end of a pool give you a courage you don’t have the rest of the year. y…”— Deb Caletti, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com