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“I listened again for a voice. But there was no voice tonight, just my obedience. No professional carpenters, just willing bodies. No last-minute detours off the interstate, just eight seats reserved in economy class.”

Book:A Delirious Summer

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“Against a blue sky the tangelo rose swiftly, first opposing gravity, then submitting, caught in the velocity like a ripe comet streaking towards the bonds of matrimony. In its arc flew the virtues of commitment and loyalty and passion, followed by the afterburners of summer — amorous and ablaze. Faster the tangelo descended, an orange blur; poetic, expensive, at once brunette and blonde, rotating so fast that its skin appeared tan, then pale, then something luminous, the color of love.”

Romance Summer Quirky Furlough

Book:A Delirious Summer

Source: A Delirious Summer

“Thus the accursed summer passes. Days & nights in hellish succession & poor Puss lies prostrate beneath the attacks of the Dream-Hawks—great carrion birds with wing-spans of ten feet & eyes of blazing coals & cruel talons to rake against my soft cheek & tangle in my hair.”

Summer Attacks

Book:The Accursed

Source: The Accursed

“We can't stop the seasons' changing, but we can fix the Earth by replanting it. The world was created in perfect balance, but our wrong actions led to having freezing winters in some regions and burning hot summers in others. This planet that God created was made perfectly; it only needs help to regain its original beautiful state.”

Life Earth Nature Environment Summer Global Warming Fixing 2020 Planting Green Life

Author:Noora Ahmed Alsuwaidi

“One day you discover you are alive. Explosion! Concussion! Illumination! Delight! You laugh, you dance around, you shout. But, not long after, the sun goes out. Snow falls, but no one sees it, on an August noon.”

Life Death Summer August

Book:Dandelion Wine

Source: Dandelion Wine

“Dads. It’s time to tell our kids that we love them. Constantly. It’s time to show our kids that we love them. Constantly. It’s time to take joy in their twenty-thousand daily questions and their inability to do things as quickly as we’d like. It’s time to take joy in their quirks and their ticks. It’s time to take joy in their facial expressions and their mispronounced words. It’s time to take joy in everything that our kids are.”

Love Children Happiness Hurt Break Kindness Anger Praise Parenting Words Arguing Parents Child Yelling Fathers Labeling Dads

Book:Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

Source: Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

“Summer loves, like summer breezes, are never as hot or long as they pretend to be”

Summer Hot Never Pretend Loves To Be Breezes As Long

Author:Jeffrey Fry

“It is hard to know how to save the world if one has never lived in it.”

Summer Coming Of Age Summer Love Bildungsroman

Book:Girls of July

Source: Girls of July

“I can't believe he even has to ask. I would go anywhere. "Yes," I tell him. It feels like nothing else exists outside of that word, this moment. there's just us. Everything has happened this past summer, and every summer before it, has all led up to this. To now.”

Summer

Book:The Summer I Turned Pretty

Source: The Summer I Turned Pretty

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