Quotes

“The summer I was fifteen I felt alive all the way down to my toenails.”

— Joyce Carol Oates · Bellefleur

“Every summer has a story.”

— 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.”

“Endurance is not the absence of pain. It's the decision to keep your hands steady while you feel it.”