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“In Florida, a summer storm can feel like the end of the world is being summoned. These storms roll in most afternoons, which is to say there is a regular feeling of apocalypse.”

Book:State of Paradise

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“Max emerged soaking wet, and blinking, and there was a crown of coral on his head. It was, Daisy thought, the most beautiful and wild object she’d ever seen – the colour of a sunset, sharp around its edges, and set with rough pearls that seemed to shift colour with the sea, from blue to green to white.”

Magic Sea Summer Beach Read Childrenbooks

Book:The City Beyond the Sea

Source: The City Beyond the Sea

“Yeah, sometimes life really sucks," she says. "But you know what I'm holding on for?" I raise my eyebrows. She raises hers, too, mimicking me. "The moments that don't suck," she says. "The trick is to notice them when they come around.”

Life

Book:Allegiant

Source: Allegiant

“But there are no happy endings, because if things are happy they have not ended.”

Happiness Happy Endings Endings

Book:Essays After Eighty

Source: Essays After Eighty

“The wind was fresh, and the sky was blue and crossed with fresh white clouds like crisp pillowcases hung out to dry. Their boat was at the head of the three others they’d seen the night before, all of them as shabby as Daisy remembered, with peeling gold paint around their portholes. They looked like canal boats, except that they also had beautiful sails that snapped in the wind.”

Sea Ocean Summer Boat Waves

Book:The City Beyond the Sea

Source: The City Beyond the Sea

“The smell of a pool should be bottled up and sold on cold days.”

Summer Pool

Book:The Summers of Us

Source: The Summers of Us

“A firefly hunt has none of the radiance of a cherry-blossom party. Dark, dreamy, rather -- might one say? Perhaps something of the child's world, the world of the fairy story in it. Something not to be painted, but set to music, the mood of it taken up on piano or koto.”

Nature Summer Japan Ambience Fireflies

Author:Junichiro Tanizaki; Edward Seidensticker

“Summer is a season of opposites--a time where you want to do nothing and do everything. Humans are equally likely to spend an entire day lying in the grass as to stay up all night dancing beneath the stars. The heat has that effect on them [...] Summer encourages us to savor our time, in whichever way we choose to.”

Summer

Book:Wings of Starlight

Source: Wings of Starlight

“As the sunlit verdancy of summer artfully transforms into the gilded shades of autumn, a gentle symphony seems to envelop the natural world. A brief pause for a quiet listen to the air reveals that between the beautiful changes, the rustling leaves, and crawling breezes, small yet profoundly stirring moments are gracefully sprinkled everywhere.”

Inspirational Nature Summer Seasons Autumn Breeze Natural World Symphony Changes Leaves

Author:Marie Helen Abramyan

“There was nothing quite like honeycomb. Still warm from the sun, the hexagonal cells split under my teeth. The rich, sweet flavor slicked back over my tongue and into my cheek in a sugared burst, viscous and heady. It was summer. And summer melted ice.”

Natural Summer Cure Honeycomb Sweetness Of Honey

Book:Honey in Her Veins

Source: Honey in Her Veins

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