Quotes

"If you are not barefoot, you’re overdressed. Summer 2012."
-Unknown


"In summer, the song sings itself."
-William Carlos Williams


"A life without love is like a year without summer."
-Swedish Proverb


"Summer afternoon-summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language."
-Henry James


"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


"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 courage you don't have the rest of the year. You can be grateful and easy, with no eyes on you, and no past. Summer just opens the door and lets you out."
-Deb Caletti, Honey, Baby, Sweetheart


"Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair..."
-Susan Polis Schutz


"The summer night is like a perfection of thought." 
-Wallace Stevens


"It's funny how one summer can change everything. It must be something about the heat and the smell of chlorine, fresh cut grass and honeysuckle, asphalt sizzling after late-day thunderstorms, the steam rising while everything drips around it. Something about long, lazy days and whirring air conditioners and bright plastic flip flops from the drugstore thwacking down the street. Something about being so close, another year, another Christmas, another beginning. So much in one summer, stirring up like the storms that crest at the end of each day, blowing out all the heat and dirt to leave everything gasping and cool. Everyone can reach back to one summer and lay a finger to it, finding that exact point when everything changed."
-Sarah Dessen