“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”

—F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August.”

—Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

“One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by.”

-Jeannette Walls

“Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.”

-Sam Keen

“To see the Summer Sky is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie –True Poems flee” -Emily Dickinson

“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In summer, the song sings itself.”

-William Carlos Williams

“The summer night is like a perfection of thought.”

-Wallace Stevens