“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
C.S. Lewis · A Grief Observed, 1961
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“The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief. But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love.”
Hilary Stanton Zunin
“The loveliness of the day is almost unbearable.”
Anne Frank · The Diary of a Young Girl
“Summer doesn't care what you choose to do with it.”
Richard Ford · The Sportswriter
“There is a day in summer when the long nights begin, and they begin because the sun has swung as far north as it will go.”
Rachel Carson · The Edge of the Sea
“You know how paradise is supposed to be a place on Earth in the summer time.”
Diane Arbus · Photographic essay and interviews
“All of a sudden summer was there. It felt inevitable, like something you were waiting for.”
Ann Packer · The Dive from Clausen's Pier
“Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes.”
Ada Louise Huxtable · Various essays on design and living
“The smell of the grass, the taste of the rain, the feeling that anything was possible.”
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
