“One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by.” — Jeannette Walls · The Glass Castle, 2005
“Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.” — William Shakespeare · Sonnet 18, c. 1609
“It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.” — Maud Hart Lovelace · Betsy-Tacy, 1940
“And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.” — James Russell Lowell · The Vision of Sir Launfal, 1848
“We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.” — Eleanor Roosevelt · You Learn by Living, 1960