More quotations tagged with “summer”
Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did, from a desk in Paris. Willa Cather wrote her prairie novels in New York City; Mark Twain wrote Huckleberry Finn in Hartford. Recently, scholars learned that Walt Whitman rarely left his room.
—Annie Dillard
Summer does something to the brain. It's intoxicating. Everything shimmers.
—Elin Hilderbrand in Summer People
A week feels like a year when you're seventeen and in love. A twenty minute drive might as well be an ocean. But we were together again and the whole world was rejoicing, even the gravel crunched melodiously under our feet as we danced onward through the night.
—Chloe Rattray in Sacré Noir
If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juicy middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end.
—Sarah Dessen in The Moon and More
Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
—Russell Baker