Late Summer Quotes

• A late summer garden has a tranquility found no other time of the year.

  William F. Longgood

  Summer, Garden, Years

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• This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight, like a spy, through the ripening country-side, and, with feigned sympathy for those who droop with August heat, puts her cool cloak of bracing air about leaf and flower and human shoulders.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Summer, Country, Flower

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• The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

  Wallace Stevens

  Summer, Night, Perfection

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.358, Vintage

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• Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

  Henry James

  Beautiful, Summer, Time

  Quoted in Edith Wharton, A Backward Glance (1934)

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• Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.

  Bryan Procter

  Smile, Summer, Night

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• So long as my body lives, and yours -- we are one flesh," he whispered, "And when my body shall cease, my soul will still be yours. Claire -- I swear by my hope of heaven, I will not be parted from you.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Long, Heaven, Soul

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 1, 2, 3, and 4: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn”, p.3834, Delacorte Press

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• A life without love is like a year without spring.

  Octavian Paler

  Summer, Spring, Love Is

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• It’s the place of the story, beginning here, in the meadow of late summer flowers, thriving before the Atlantic storms drive wet and winter upon them all.

  Gregory Maguire

  Summer, Flower, Winter

  Gregory Maguire (2009). “Confessions Of An Ugly Stepsister: A Novel”, p.29, Harper Collins

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• At about the age of ten, during a late summer visit to Sears to buy school clothes, I became aware of the concept of candy by the pound.

  Steve Almond

  Summer, School, Clothes

  Steve Almond (2004). “Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America”, p.21, Algonquin Books

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• There is a spider called Amaurobius, which lives in a burrow and has its young in the late summer, and then it dies when the frosts begin, and the young spiders live through the cold by eating their mother's dead body. One can't believe that's an accident. I don't know that I imagined God as having thought it all out, but somehow He was connected with the pattern, He was the pattern.

  Iris Murdoch

  Summer, God, Mother

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• In the late summer of 1986, the band I had been in for five years stopped playing. Suddenly, I was on my own. This new state of bandlessness was, at first, traumatic. When your group breaks up, a lot of broken parts hit the ground.

  Henry Rollins

  Summer, Years, Broken

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• And when my body shall cease, my soul will still be yours, Claire? I swear by my hope of heaven, I will not be parted from you." The wind stirred the leaves of the chestnut trees nearby, and the scents of late summer rose up rich around us; pine and grass and strawberries, sun-warmed stone and cool water, and the sharp, musky smell of his body next to mine. "Nothing is lost, Sassenach; only changed." "That's the first law of thermodynamics," I said, wiping my nose. "No," he said. "That's faith.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Summer, Wind, Law

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 1, 2, 3, and 4: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn”, p.3834, Delacorte Press

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• Blind impatience is equally evident in the fruit section. Our ancestors might have delighted in the occasional handful of berries found on the underside of a bush in late summer, viewing it as a sign of the unexpected munificence of a divine creator, but we became modern when we gave up on awaiting sporadic gifts from above and sought to render any pleasing sensation immediately and repeatedly available.

  Alain de Botton

  Summer, Berries, Might

  Alain de Botton (2009). “The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work”, p.27, Penguin UK

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