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“My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.”

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Sara Paretsky

Sara Paretsky, born on June 8, 1947, is a renowned American author known for her crime novels. Her works, particularly the V.I. Warshawski series, have gained her recognition for their unique female perspective and social commentary. more

“The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color.”

Source: Tuck Everlasting

“In summer, intolerable closeness; in winter, unendurable cold. All the floors were rotten. Filth on the floors an inch thick; one could slip and fall.”

Fall Cold Summer Winter Slips Thick Inches Rotten Closeness Filth Unendurable

Book:Crime and Punishment

Source: Crime and Punishment

“The days draw out, the weather gets warmer, and it's what we call summer, with a bitter laugh when we've said it.”

Said Laughing Summer Draws Weather Bitter

Book:A Kind of Loving: The Vic Brown Trilogy

Source: A Kind of Loving: The Vic Brown Trilogy

“Take off that darn fur coat!...Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the windows.”

Summer Window Coats Fur Fur Coats

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“It was a heavenly summer, the summer in which France fell and the British Expeditionary Force was evacuated from Dunkirk. Leaves were never such an intense and iridescent green; sunlight glinted on flower-studded meadows as the Germans encircled the Maginot Line and overran not only France but Belgium and Holland. Birdsong filled the air in the lull between bursts of gunfire and accompanied the fleeing refugees who blocked the roads. It was as though the weather was preparing a glorious requiem for the death of Europe.”

“August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly included between its pages.”

Years Force Grows Summer Pages Chapters August Sprouts End Of Summer Short Summer

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“How often had that hydrant even been opened? Did you jet water through a car window, what, twice at best? Summer burned just a few afternoons long, in the end. As for flying, Dose never even glanced at the sky. Flying was a summer within a summer, a whim. So why think of it at all?”

Thinking Long Ends Water Sky Car Summer Window Flying Afternoon Burned Jet Dose Whim

Book:The Fortress of Solitude

Source: The Fortress of Solitude

“Rejoice as summer should...chase away sorrows by living.”

Should Sorrow Summer Rejoice

Author:Melissa Marr

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