When the sun is out, the flowers have bloomed, and the beach is calling your name, it can only mean one thing; summer has officially arrived! Whether you’re planning to relax on the grass or unwind by the pool with a long-awaited read from your TBR, it’s the perfect time to escape into a story. To inspire your summer reading, we’ve gathered a selection of quotes to take you there.
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“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.”
— William Shakespeare
“In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.”
— Margaret Atwood
“It was dry, and yet warm with the head of the summer day. I looked at the sky; it was pure: a kindly star twinkled just above the chasm ridge. The dew fell, but with propitious softness; no breeze whispered. Nature seemed to me benign and good: I thought she loved me.”
— Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August.”
— Jenny Han
“Summer afternoon – summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
— Henry James
“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.”
— Audrey Hepburn
“One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by.”
— Jeanette Walls
“Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.”
— C. Day Lewis
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadows.”
— Helen Keller
