“l'homme se trouve devant l'irrationnel. Il sent en lui son désir de bonheur et de raison. L'absurde naît de cette confrontation entre l'appel humain et le silence déraisonnable du monde.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus
“Traigh came to help her dismount, a broad smile making creases around his eyes. “I fear ye missed our summer, Joie.”
Her brow drew in with confusion. “But it is summer, Traigh,” she told him.
“Aye, it might well be summer elsewhere in the world, but here, it only last three days. We had our summer last week.”
Source: Isle of the Blessed
“Daffodowndilly
She wore her yellow sun-bonnet,
She wore her greenest gown;
She turned to the south wind
And curtsied up and down.
She turned to the sunlight
And shook her yellow head,
And whispered to her neighbor:
"Winter is dead.”
Source: When We Were Very Young
“The summer in you
calms the winter in me.”
Source: The Summer in You
“I realized
June had never been
just a month
music...
never just a tremble
on my lips
warmth was never
merely a blanket.”
Source: A touch, a tear, a tempest
“I've lived to see my longings die"
I've lived to se my longings die:
My dreams and I have grown apart;
Now only sorrow haunts my eye,
The wages of a bitter heart.
Beneath the storms of hostile fate,
My flowery wreath has faded fast;
I live alone and sadly wait
To see when death will come at last.
Just so, when the winds in winter moan
And snow descends in frigid flakes,
Upon a naked branch, alone,
The final leaf of summer shakes!”
“I felt like summer had taken me over.”
Source: This Is How You Lose Her
“our feet
are grape-squashed in memories
our skins are still flushed
from the touch
of summer’s lips.”
Source: A touch, a tear, a tempest
“Don't blame me. That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution.”
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
“Summer was a book of hope. That's why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe.”
Source: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe