Summer Quotes - Page 24

• As I said, this was my sarcastic summer. It was only long after that I recognized sarcasm as the protest of people who are weak.

  John Knowles

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Long

  John Knowles (2014). “A Separate Peace”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Forgotten, Window, Fit

  "The Sun Watches the Sun". Book by Dejan Stojanovic (Sequence: "A Game", Chapter: "Things", p. 87), June 13, 2012.

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• The morning is full of storm in the heart of summer. The clouds travel like white handkerchiefs of goodbye, the wind, travelling, waving them in its hands. The numberless heart of the wind beating above our loving silence. Orchestral and divine, resounding among the trees like a language full of wars and songs.

  Pablo Neruda

  Goodbye, Song, Morning

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• Throw in the intensity of emotions that come with that bittersweet summer sandwiched between high school graduation and the rest of your life.

  Emily Giffin

  School, Rest Of Your Life, Emotion

  Emily Giffin (2008). “Love the One You're With”, p.367, Macmillan

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• Even if I had stayed she wouldn't have ever wanted me. She didn't want me for anything more than a summer fling. I was a way of moving on for her.

  Abbi Glines

  Moving, Want, Way

  Abbi Glines (2013). “While It Lasts”, p.244, Simon and Schuster

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• He was just like summer, and she loved summer. If she had any wish, it would be to live a lifetime of summers.

  Anna Godbersen

  Wish, Would Be, Lifetime

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• never judge anyone by their appearance, or the car they drive, or the house they live in, or even by the words they say. judge people by their actions. that's how you know whether they're bad or good." - perfect Summer

  Luanne Rice

  Car, People, Perfect

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• Remember with your heart. Go back, go back and go back. The skies of this world were always meant to have dragons. When they are not here, humans miss them. Some never think of them, of course. But some children, from the time they are small, they look up at the blue summer sky and watch for something that never comes. Because they know. Something that was supposed to be there faded and vanished. Something that we must bring back, you and I.

  Robin Hobb

  Children, Heart, Thinking

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• This is wine," Ghoolion said solemnly. "Wine is drinkable sunlight. It's the most glorious summer's day imaginable, captured in a bottle. Wine can be a melody in a cut-glass goblet, but it can also be a cacophony in a dirty tumbler, or a rainy autumn night, or a funeral march that scorches your tongue.

  Walter Moers

  Dirty, Wine, Autumn

  Walter Moers (2009). “The Alchemaster's Apprentice: A Novel”, p.104, The Overlook Press

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• Life is filled with rhythms-day and night, hot and cold, summer and winter, spring and fall, cloudy and clear. Likewise in a relationship, men and women have their own rhythms and cycles.

  John Gray

  Spring, Fall, Winter

  John Gray “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus”

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• There was always a quest for more minutes, more hours, faster progress to accomplish more in each day. The simple joy of living between summers was gone.

  Mitch Albom

  Simple, Joy, Progress

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• I do love the beginning of the summer hols,' said Julian. They always seem to stretch out ahead for ages and ages.' 'They go so nice and slowly at first,' said Anne, his little sister. 'Then they start to gallop.

  Enid Blyton

  Nice, Little Sister, Age

  "Five Go Off in a Caravan". Book by Enid Blyton, www.theguardian.com. 1946.

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• It seemed to Alabama that, reaching her goal, she would drive the devils that had driven her - that, in proving herself, she would achieve that peace which she imagined went only in surety of one’s self - that she would be able, through the medium of the dance, to command her emotions, to summon love or pity or happiness at will, having provided a channel through which they might flow. She drove herself mercilessly, and the summer dragged on.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Self, Goal, Devil

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• She'd secretly had a crush on him since they were twelve years old. Last summer, she'd fallen for him hard.

  Rick Riordan

  Crush, Years, Twelve

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• But the fevers are on me now, the virus mad to ravage my last fifty T cells. It's hard to keep the memory at full dazzle, with so much loss to mock it. Roger gone, Craig gone, Cesar gone, Stevie gone. And this feeling that I'm the last one left, in a world where only the ghosts still laugh. But at least they're the ghosts of full-grown men, proof that all of us got that far, free of the traps and the lies. And from that moment on the brink of summer's end, no one would ever tell me again that men like me couldn't love.

  Paul Monette

  Love, Memories, Lying

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• Looking at the elementary schoolers in their colorful T-shirts from various day camps, Percy felt a twinge of sadness. He should be at Camp Half-Blood right now, settling into his cabin for the summer, teaching sword-fighting lessons in the arena, playing pranks on the other counselors. These kids had no idea just how crazy a summer camp could be.

  Rick Riordan

  Crazy, Teaching, Sadness

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• And if, in some distant place in the future, we see each other in our new lives, I will smile at you with joy, and remember how we spent a summer beneath the trees, learning from each other and growing in love.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Notebook, Tree, Joy

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “The Notebook”, p.92, Hachette UK

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• Amber, you could never embarrass me." "Never?" she asked. "Never." "One time, I yelled across the store to Mom and asked her if she wanted the regular or the super-absorbent tampons. I added that, according to the box, the super-absorbent were for those heavy days. Then I asked her to rate her heaviness on a scale of one to ten." "Okay, you could." "Then while we were standing in line, I asked her why she was buying three boxes of Summer's Eve in the middle of winter." I set her at arm's length. "Wow." "I know, right? I had no idea a person could turn so red.

  Darynda Jones

  Mom, Winter, Ideas

  Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.150, St. Martin's Press

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• He ignored me, thank God, saying to Kat, "Let go of Frosty's leash. You're choking the life out of him." Her eyes narrowed to tiny slits, a sure sign of her aggression. "He deserves to choke. He didn't keep little frosty in his pants this summer." The words snapped like a whip. "He did." Cole snapped back with unwavering confidence. "Not." "Did." "Not!" "Did,"... "Not, not, not!" she shouted with a stomp of her foot. "What are we five?" Cole said. "Six."

  Gena Showalter

  Letting Go, Eye, Feet

  "Alice in Zombieland". Book by Gena Showalter, 2012.

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• As for my family, my father was Danel; he died as a mercenary in the southern wars," Han went on. "My mother's name was Sarah, called Sali, and my sister was Mari. They died last summer. But then, you already knew that. Every time you forget, I'll remind you. That's the blood sacrifice I made to be here, and that's enough.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Mother, Father, War

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• Or maybe watching you enjoy a carefree summer while you fell in love was what kept me out of the hospital in the first place.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Firsts, Carefree, Enjoy

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• What was it Catelyn Stark had called them, that night at Bitterbridge? The knights of summer. And now it was autumn and they were falling like leaves.

  George R. R. Martin

  Fall, Autumn, Night

  George R. R. Martin (2005). “A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Four”, p.209, Bantam

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• ...trees to cool the towns in the boiling summer, trees to hold back the winter winds. There were so many things a tree could do: add color, provide shade, drop fruit, or become a children's playground, a whole sky universe to climb and hang from; an architecture of food and pleasure, that was a tree. But most of all the trees would distill an icy air for the lungs, and a gentle rustling for the ear when you lay nights in your snowy bed and were gentled to sleep by the sound.

  Ray Bradbury

  Children, Sleep, Winter

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “The Martian Chronicles”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• Go back,” he said. “Can’t. Stand aside?” “Can’t.” “So it’s like that?” I said. Fix exhaled. Then he nodded. “Yeah.” And for the first time in a decade the Winter Knight and Summer Knight went to war.

  Jim Butcher

  War, Winter, Knights

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• I understood we used to be close. But they were like books i'd read two summer ago; I knew I'd liked them, but I couldn't tell you now what they'd been about.

  Sara Shepard

  Book, Two, Used

  Sara Shepard (2011). “The Lying Game”, p.31, HarperCollins UK

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