“Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes.”
Ada Louise Huxtable · Various essays on design and living
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All of a sudden summer was there. It felt inevitable, like something you were waiting for.
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Margaret Mitchell · Gone with the Wind
“In the summer I lie loosely in the grass and listen to the silence that moves.”
Eudora Welty · The Eye of the Story
“Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is stirring in the greenness underneath.”
William Carlos Williams · Spring and All
“The summer I was fifteen I felt alive all the way down to my toenails.”
Joyce Carol Oates · Bellefleur
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John Grisham · Sycamore Row
“The summer night is like a perfection of thought.”
Wallace Stevens · Harmonium
“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon. To me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
Henry James · Edith Wharton's memoir, A Backward Glance
“The days are longer and the responsibilities are fewer, and you feel yourself expand and stretch and come alive again.”
Vivian Gornick · Unfinished Woman
“Dignity under pressure is its own kind of answer to the world.”
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“Endurance is not the absence of pain. It's the decision to keep your hands steady while you feel it.”
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“Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.”
Emily Dickinson · Poem Fr949, c. 1864
