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“You choose the end of the summer to fall in love with this guy because secretly, you don’t want it to last.”

Want Ends Lasts Guy Fall Summer Falling In Love You Choose This Guy End Of Summer Summer To Fall

Author:Candace Bushnell

“There was only so much space between us, not even a real distance if measured in miles or feet or even inches, all the things that told you how far you'd come or had left to go. But it was a big space, if only for me. And as I moved forward to him covering it, he waited there on the other side. It was only the last little bit I has to go, but in the end, I knew it would be all I would truly remember. So as I kissed him, bringing this summer and everything else full circle, I let myself fall, and was not scared of the ground I knew would rise up to meet me.”

Ifs Littles Real Ends Bigs Would Be Lasts Remember Fall Left Bits Sides Space Feet Summer Little Bit Moved Distance Scared Miles Circles Inches Covering Space Between Full Circle

Author:Sarah Dessen

“Every time I look down on this timeless town Whether blue or gray be her skies. Whether loud be her cheers or soft be her tears, More and more do I realize: I love Paris in the springtime. I love Paris in the fall. I love Paris in the winter when it drizzles, I love Paris in the summer when it sizzles. I love Paris every moment, Every moment of the year. I love Paris, why, oh why do I love Paris? Because my love is near.”

Years Looks Moments Fall Realizing Love Is Sky Tears Summer Towns Blue Winter Loud Paris Gray Cheer Timeless Springtime Drizzle

Author:Cole Porter

“Truly, Autumn is my season,” the scarlet beast chorted. “Spring and Summer and Winter all begin with such late letters! But Autumn and Fall, I have loved best, because they are best to love.”

Fall Late Summer Spring Letters Seasons Winter Beast Autumn Scarlet Summer And Winter

Author:Catherynne M. Valente

“We eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow and then we eat it.”

Years Fall Grows Waiting Summer Spring

Author:Shirley Jackson

“SEASONS PASSED, FALL AND WINTER and spring and summer. Leaves blew in through the open door of Lucius Clarke’s shop, and rain, and the green outrageous hopeful light of spring. People came and went, grandmothers and doll collectors and little girls with their mothers. Edward Tulane waited. The seasons turned into years. Edward Tulane waited. He repeated the old doll’s words over and over until they wore a smooth groove of hope in his brain: Someone will come; someone will come for you.”

Source: The Essential Kate DiCamillo Collection

“[T]hat old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air ... Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year's mistakes had been wiped clean by summer.”

“To say it was a beautiful day would not begin to explain it. It was that day when the end of summer intersects perfectly with the start of fall .... [p.218 ff.]”

Ends Beautiful Fall Summer End Of Summer Beautiful Day

Author:Ann Patchett

“August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.”

Fall Born Gone Summer Rain Odd August Summertime End Of Summer Short Summer Summer Rain Summer To Fall Cute Summer Summer Time

Book:The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“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.”

Men Life Is Night Fall Clear Cold Summer Spring Men And Women Hot Filled Winter Rhythm Cycles Day And Night Cloudy Summer And Winter Hot And Cold

Book:Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus

Source: Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus

“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.”

Night Fall Summer Autumn Knights Starks Catelyn Stark

Book:A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Four

Source: A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Four

“Falling in love with you in the Summer Garden in the white nights in Leningrad is the moment that propels me through life.”

Moments Night Fall White Love You Summer Garden Falling In Love Falling In Love With You Summer Garden Leningrad

Author:Paullina Simons

“Dandelion wine. The words were summer on the tongue. The wine was summer caught and stoppered...sealed away for opening on a January day with snow falling fast and the sun unseen for weeks.”

Fall Sun Week Summer Wine Caught Tongue Snow Opening Unseen January Dandelions Snow Falling

Author:Ray Bradbury

“Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.”

Hate Fall Summer Spring I Hate Winter Autumn Fall Autumn Fall Season Autumn Season Drowsy Summer To Fall Autumn And Winter

Book:Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words

Source: Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words

“Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods, And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt, And night by night the monitory blast Wails in the key-hole, telling how it pass'd O'er empty fields, or upland solitudes, Or grim wide wave; and now the power is felt Of melancholy, tenderer in its moods Than any joy indulgent Summer dealt.”

Joy Night Fall Felt Fire Fields Keys Solitude Summer Empty Wave Woods Wide Mood Holes Autumn Melancholy Blast Grim Fall Autumn Autumn Leaves Autumn Days Summer To Fall

Book:Day and Night Songs

Source: Day and Night Songs

“There is no season such delight can bring, as summer, autumn, winter and the spring.”

Source: Britannia's Pastorals

“Soon we will plunge ourselves into cold shadows, and all of summer's stunning afternoons will be gone. I already hear the dead thuds of logs below falling on the cobblestones and the lawn.”

Fall Gone Cold Summer Shadow Autumn Afternoon Lawns Plunge Stunning Fall Season November Poems Cobblestone

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.”

“Now summer is in flower and natures hum Is never silent round her sultry bloom Insects as small as dust are never done Wi' glittering dance and reeling in the sun And green wood fly and blossom haunting bee Are never weary of their melody Round field hedge now flowers in full glory twine Large bindweed bells wild hop and streakd woodbine That lift athirst their slender throated flowers Agape for dew falls and for honey showers These round each bush in sweet disorder run And spread their wild hues to the sultry sun.”

Done Running Fall Sun Fields Sweet Flower Summer Spring Glory Green Silent Rounds Spread Woods Dust Lifts Hops Melody Disorder Honey Bells Bees Showers Weary Insects Haunting June Dew Hue Slender Agape

Book:Major Works

Source: Major Works

“Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.”

“The Indian Summer, the dead Summer's soul.”

Soul Fall Summer Indian Autumn July Indian Summer

Author:Mary C. Ames

“The harvest moon has no innocence, like the slim quarter moon of a spring twilight, nor has it the silver penny brilliance of the moon that looks down upon the resorts of summer time. Wise, ripe, and portly, like an old Bacchus, it waxes night after night.”

Looks Night Fall Wise Moon Summer Spring Innocence Silver Autumn Quarters Twilight Harvest Resorts Pennies Brilliance Ripe Slim Bacchus Harvest Time Summer Time Harvest Moon

Author:Donald C. Peattie

“Listen! the wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, we have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!”

Source: P.L.M.: Peoples, Landfalls, Mountains

“It was Indian summer, a bluebird sort of day as we call it in the north, warm and sunny, without a breath of wind; the water was sky-blue, the shores a bank of solid gold.”

Fall Water Sky Wind Summer Gold Breaths Blue Warm Indian Autumn Shore Sunny Bluebird Indian Summer

Book:Open horizons

Source: Open horizons

“The falling leaves drift by the window The autumn leaves of red and gold.... I see your lips, the summer kisses The sunburned hands, I used to hold Since you went away, the days grow long And soon I'll hear ol' winter's song. But I miss you most of all my darling, When autumn leaves start to fall.”

“Lo! sweeten'd with the summer light, The full-juiced apple, waxing over-mellow, Drops in a silent autumn night. All its allotted length of days The flower ripens in its place, Ripens and fades, and falls, and hath no toil, Fast-rooted in the fruitful soil.”

Light Night Fall Flower Summer Silent Apples Soil Autumn Length Fades Rooted Toil Mellow Fall Season Autumn Days November Poems Waxing Summer To Fall Autumn Nights

Book:Tennyson: Selected Poetry

Source: Tennyson: Selected Poetry

“In the other gardens And all up the vale, From the autumn bonfies See the smoke trail! Pleasant summer over And all the summer flowers, The red fire blazes, the grey smoke towers. Sing a song of seasons! Something bright in all, Flowers in the summer Fires in the fall!”

Song Fall Fire Flower Summer Red Garden Seasons Smoke Pleasant Autumn Towers Grey Trails Autumn Season Summer Flower

Book:The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses

Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses

“Ere, in the northern gale, The summer tresses of the trees are gone, The woods of Autumn, all around our vale, Have put their glory on.”

Fall Gone Tree Summer Glory Woods Autumn Gale Tresses

Author:William C. Bryant

“I see, when I bend close, how each leaflet of a climbing rose is bordered with frost, the autumn counterpart of the dewdrops of summer dawns. The feathery leaves of yarrow are thick with silver rime and dry thistle heads rise like goblets plated with silver catching the sun.”

Fall Sun Summer Rose Dawn Dry Silver Autumn Climbing Thick Catching Frost Counterparts Thistles

Author:Edwin Way Teale

“But then fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays awhile like an old friend that you have missed. It settles in the way an old friend will settle into your favorite chair and take out his pipe and light it and then fill the afternoon with stories of places he has been and things he has done since last he saw you.”

Source: 'Salem's Lot

“The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose, And on old Hiems' thin and icy crown An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds Is, as in mockery, set. The spring, the summer, The childing autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries, and the mazed world, By their increase, now knows not which is which.”

Knows World Fall Sweet Summer Spring Seasons Increase Angry Rose Winter Autumn Crowns Lap Bud Mockery Frost Icy Crimson Four Seasons

Book:A Midsummer Night's Dream

Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream

“As the Little House settled down on her new foundation, she smiled happily. Once again she could watch the sun and moon and stars. Once again she could watch Spring and Summer and Fall and Winter come and go. Once again she was lived in and taken care of. Never again would she be curious about the city... Never again would she want to live there... The stars twinkled above her... A new moon was coming up... It was Spring... And all was quiet and peaceful in the country.”

“Sing a song of seasons; something bright in all, flowers in the summer, fires in the fall.”

Song Fall Nature Environment Fire Flower Summer Seasons Autumn Autumn Season Summer Flower

Book:Robert Louis Stevenson

Source: Robert Louis Stevenson

“Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce. In summer, we work hard to make a tidy garden, bordered by pansies with rows or clumps of columbine, petunias, bleeding hearts. Then we find ourselves longing for the forest, where everything has the appearance of disorder; yet we feel peaceful there.”

Source: Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life

“Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition.”

Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

“There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.”

“We travel, in essence, to become young fools again - to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.”

“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

“It always seemed to me that the herbaceous peony is the very epitome of June. Larger than any rose, it has something of the cabbage rose's voluminous quality; and when it finally drops from the vase, it sheds its petticoats with a bump on the table, all in an intact heap, much as a rose will suddenly fall, making us look up from our book or conversation, to notice for one moment the death of what had still appeared to be a living beauty.”

Looks Stills Book Moments Fall Quality Conversation Summer Tables Rose Look Up Shed June Bumps Vases Epitome Cabbage Peonies

Author:Vita Sackville-West

“June falls asleep upon her bier of flowers; In vain are dewdrops sprinkled o'er her, In vain would fond winds fan her back to life, Her hours are numbered on the floral dial.”

Fall Hours Fans Wind Flower Summer Vain June

Author:Lucy Larcom

“What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine; The nectarine and curious peach Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.”

Life Hands Life Is Fall Flower Summer Mouths Wine Curious Grass Apples Crush August Ripe Vines Wondrous Stumbling Peaches Clusters Melons Nectarines

Author:Andrew Marvell

“After a disappointing summer, Humpty Dumpty has a great fall.”

Fall Summer Disappointing Humpty Dumpty

Author:Colin Mochrie

“Watching the animals come and go, and feeling the land swell up to meet them and then feeling it grow still at their departure, I came to think of the migrations as breath, as the land breathing. In spring a great inhalation of light and animals. The long-bated breath of summer. And an exhalation that propelled them all south in the fall.”

Thinking Long Stills Feelings Light Fall Grows Animal Land Summer Spring Breaths South Breathing Comes And Goes Departure Migration

Book:Arctic Dreams

Source: Arctic Dreams

“My mother could never have said she loved fall, but as she walked down the steps with her suitcase in hand toward the red Monte Carlo her husband had been waiting in for nearly an hour, she could have said that she respected its place as a mediator between two extremes. Fall came and went, while winter was endured and summer was revered. Fall was the repose that made both possible and bearable, and now here she was was with her husband next to her, heading headlong into an early-fall afternoon with only the vaguest ideas of who they were becoming and what came next.”

Made Said Two Ideas Hands Mother Fall Next Waiting Hours Steps Becoming Husband Summer Red Winter Extremes Afternoon Headings Repose Suitcases Bearable Mediators Two Extremes Monte Carlo

Book:How to Read the Air

Source: How to Read the Air

“How many times can summer turn to fall in one life?”

Turns Fall Summer

Book:Negative Blue: Selected Later Poems

Source: Negative Blue: Selected Later Poems

“The world keeps turnin' It gets merry like a merry go 'round It gets cold like a frozen winter Well I change like summer fall But I know love is all in all Seeds we're always sowing The grace is always blowing We've just got to lift the sail And we're bound to hit the shore We'll finally calm this storm.”

Knows World Wells Christian Fall Love Is Grace Cold Summer Bounds Rounds Winter Calm Storm Seeds Christian Inspirational Lifts Shore Sail Frozen Merry Sowing Merry Go Round

Author:Trevor Hall

“If winter is slumber and spring is birth, and summer is life, then autumn rounds out to be reflection. It's a time of year when the leaves are down and the harvest is in and the perennials are gone. Mother Earth just closed up the drapes on another year and it's time to reflect on what's come before.”

“There ain't no time to be wasted, the world is going under... Nowadays, can't tell Fall from Spring, and Winter from Summer.”

World Fall Summer Spring Winter Hip Hop Rap

Author:Big K.R.I.T.

“The winter will be short, the summer long, The autumn amber-hued, sunny and hot, Tasting of cider and of scuppernong; All seasons sweet, but autumn best of all. The squirrels in their silver fur will fall Like falling leaves, like fruit, before your shot.”

Long Fall Sweet Summer Shots Seasons Hot Fruit Winter Silver Autumn Sunny Fur Squirrels Tasting Amber Cider Falling Leaves

Book:Selected Works of Elinor Wylie

Source: Selected Works of Elinor Wylie

“To set one's name to a work gives no one a title to be remembered, for who knows how many of the best of men have gone without a trace? The iniquity of oblivion blindly scatters her poppyseed and when wretchedness falls upon us one summer's day like snow, all we wish for is to be forgotten.”

Knows Men Giving Fall Names Wish Know How Gone Summer Forgotten Snow Titles Remembered Oblivion Iniquity Wretchedness Best Of Me Without A Trace

Book:The Rings of Saturn

Source: The Rings of Saturn