“I love how summer just wraps its arms around you like a warm blanket.”— Kellie Elmore, kellieelmore.tumblr.com
“Summer: Hair gets lighter. Skin gets darker. Water gets warmer. Drinks get colder. Music gets louder. Nights get longer. Life gets better.”— Unknown, twitter.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
“I could taste the salt on her lips, each kiss like a summer wave breaking on an empty beach.”— Michael Faudet, twitter.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
“Sweet, sweet burn of sun and summer wind, and you my friend, my new fun thing, my summer fling.”— k. d. lang, youtube.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
“Tears were warm, and girls were beautiful, like dreams. I liked movie theaters, the darkness and intimacy, and I liked the deep, sad summer nights.”— Haruki Murakami, 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
“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, amazon.com
“It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.”— Maud Hart Lovelace, amazon.com
“Come with me,' Mom says. To the library. Books and summertime go together.”— Lisa Schroeder, amazon.com
“It's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... it's summertime!”— Kenny Chesney, play.spotify.com
“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”— Henry James, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com