I fell for her in summer, my lovely summer girl, From summer she is made, my lovely summer girl, I’d love to spend a winter with my lovely summer girl, But I’m never warm enough for my lovely summer girl, It’s summer when she smiles, I’m laughing like a child, It’s the summer of our lives; we’ll contain it for a while She holds the heat, the breeze of summer in the circle of her hand I’d be happy with this summer if it’s all we ever had.
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Sweet my child, I live for thee. JOHN TAYLOR "THE WATER POET" No, I don't miss you... Not in a way that one is missed. But I think of you. Sometimes. SREESHA DIVAKARAN Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, We have had our summer evenings, n... HUMBERT WOLFE Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, We have had our summer evenings, no... HUMBERT WOLFE Cricket to us was more than play, It was a worship in the summer sun. EDMUND BLUNDEN My father laughed. "The magic of Summer," he said, "is unlike anything else. Imagine life, fertility... KAILIN GOW CHOCOLATE DAY POEM: "Chocolate, dark or light.. Makes me smile bright. Chocolate, whe... VIKRMN Heartland Now that we’ve given our hearts away With the bric-a-brac, we want them... LISEL MUELLER Though the body is its genesis, a poem is the vision of a processOut of ceaseles... FRANK BIDART A bird sang sweet and strong In the top of the highest tree, He said, "I pour out my heart i... GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter f... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A pause. Then she said: "Tell me, Noah, what do you remember most from the summer we spent together?... NICHOLAS SPARKS She worked out in the weight room a lot last summer and was probably the only one who put in work th... EARL FOUNTAIN The girl was alluring. Like wildfire, or a summer storm swept off the Gulf of Oro. SARAH J. MAAS The Bear and the Maiden Fair A bear there was, a bear, a bear! All black and b... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly; In my own way, and with my full consent. Say... EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Reading is a joy for my kids, and to swing in a hammock on a lazy summer day reading a good book jus... MARCIA GAY HARDEN However, this is not the end of our summer or summer activities. BETSY BAUMGART Experience life in all possible ways -- good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter.... OSHO In the summer I stretch out on the shore And think of you. Had I told the sea What I ... نزار قباني It was a soft, reposeful summer landscape, as lovely as a dream, and as lonesome as Sunday. MARK TWAIN Here is the ghost
Of a summer that lived for us,
Here is a promise
Of summer to be. WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Warm summer sun, shine friendly here Warm western wind, blow kindly here; Green sod abov... ROBERT RICHARDSON Summer was here again. Summer, summer, summer. I loved and hated summers. Summers had a logic all th... BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ Sweet Grace amazes me The way that she can see Beyond the man I am To the man that I ... JASON GRAY Overhead hung a summer sky furrowed with the rush of rockets; and from the east a late moon, pushing... EDITH WHARTON DESDEMONA: I hope my noble lord esteems me honest. OTHELLO: Oh, ay, as summer flies are in the ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Nights and days came and passed And summer and winter and the rain. And it was good t... MARGARET WISE BROWN In the summer of 1964, my sister and I went to South Ballston, Virginia, to stay with my aunt and he... EDWARD P. JONES Summer has no day,' she said. 'We can't possibly have a summer love. So many people have tried that ... F. SCOTT FITZGERALD No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face." [The... JOHN DONNE There is a harmony In autumn, and a lustre in its sky, Which through the summer is not heard... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY My love, do you recall the object which we saw, That fair, sweet, summer morn! At a turn i... CHARLES BAUDELAIRE A thing resounds when it rings true, Ringing all the bells inside of you, Like a golden sk... ANDREW PETERSON Every summer has its own unique pathology, trajectory, and this is not a summer we want to repeat. N... PAUL DERGARABEDIAN We're important to ESPN. We fill up a lot of space for them in the summer. We're their programming i... BOB DUPUY Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind. I grasped a lovely ... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE This is it. The summer guest birds are gone. The last week of summer is upon us and fall is just aro... LILY CHATTERJEE The bee, from her industry in the summer, eats honey all the winter PROVERB Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time, with a gift of tears; ... ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time, with a gift of tears;<... ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE The word landed with a stony thud Onto my still-beating breast. Nevermind, I was prepare... ANNA AKHMATOVA The summer of 1943 at Exeter was as happy a time as I ever had in my life. JOHN KNOWLES Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson, Yet our full-leaved willows are in the f... WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Summer is huge. Winter is kind of like little, compared to summer. But, yes, it will get bigger and ... LI YAN It was her last breakfast with Bapi, her last morning in Greece. In her frenetic bliss that kept her... ANN BRASHARES We came out on Coldra Crescent, one of those warm air nights, stars spitting in the sky like firebug... RON BERRY By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather And autumn'... HELEN HUNT JACKSON I've always been a slow starter. My first date was with a girl called Cessi. We had a beautiful ... LEONARDO DICAPRIO It wasn't like the last crop of summer movies were that much better than this summer, MARC SHMUGER Walk tall as the trees, live strong as the mountains, be gentle as the spring winds, kee... AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB The rain keeps constantly raining, And the sky is cold and gray, And the wind in the trees k... WILLIAM WETMORE STORY I can only get my drummer in the winter; he plays with Grand Funk all summer. BOB SEGER Imagine a delicious glass of summer iced tea. Take a long cool sip. Listen to the ice cra... VERA NAZARIAN She was a phantom of delight When first she gleam'd upon my sight; A lovely apparition, sent... WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be. NORA EPHRON Summer bachelors like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be. NORA EPHRON Huge fan ... the highlight of my summer. TORI AMOS Stick them in the Blue Room. And no interruptions for the next couple of hours, please. My guest and... TIFFANY REISZ No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace, As I have seen in one autumnal face. JOHN DONNE There are a lot of people that will look this winter for summer 2007. So they can tour the camps dur... LUCY NORVELL The news of my pregnancy spread like a forest fire in summer JUHI CHAWLA You are enough to drive a saint to madness or a king to his knees Excerpt from To Kiss a ... GRACE WILLOWS In the summer I have this friend who I am closest to, and sometimes, in the winter, I long to call h... JACQUELINE WOODSON
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MAGGIE STIEFVATER Adam described the circumstances surrounding his eye and his hand with the same level tone he would ... MAGGIE STIEFVATER They're saying that you and Sean Kendrick were burning up the cliffs." Tommy spins me again and grin... MAGGIE STIEFVATER When did you get so smart?" He tapped his forehead. "Brain transplant. They put in a whale's. I... MAGGIE STIEFVATER What was a kiss without a kiss?" It was a tablecloth tugged from beneath a party service, ever... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Grace, who haunted my thoughts when I couldn’t dream MAGGIE STIEFVATER Gansey hurried on. "Let me introduce you. These are my friends: Ronan, Adam Parrish, and Jane." MAGGIE STIEFVATER Adam understood, then, that Gansey and Blue’s awe changed this place. Ronan and Adam may have seen... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Ronan, taking in Blue’s posture and Gansey below, observed, “If you spit, Blue, it would land ri... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Casually, out of the view of Ronan, making sure Adam was still sleeping, Gansey dangled his hand bet... MAGGIE STIEFVATER I like you better this way." For some reason, admitting this made her face go hot right away; she wa... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Maura had decided sometime before Blue's birth that it was barbaric to order children about, and so ... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Flustered, she replied, "You're not my - my - grandmother, or something." "You'd talk abo... MAGGIE STIEFVATER his yellow eyes gazed at me possessively -- I wondered if he realized that the way he looked at me w... MAGGIE STIEFVATER One thousand brilliant stars punched holes in my consciousness, pricking me with longing. I could st... MAGGIE STIEFVATER It was a sort of ferocious, quiet beauty, the sort that wouldn't let you admire it. The sort of beau... MAGGIE STIEFVATER I didn't say I would start a yard." "You didn't have to. I'll come back next year and yo... MAGGIE STIEFVATER She doesn't know any better, what a girl like her needs is a man with both his legs on the land. A m... MAGGIE STIEFVATER That's a poor match, Sean Kendrick," says a voice at my elbow. It's the other sister from Fathom &am... MAGGIE STIEFVATER In the middle of all this, as Sean slips out of his jacket, he looks over his shoulder at me and he ... MAGGIE STIEFVATER I adore book-to-film adaptations when they're done well, and I'm more lenient than many read... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Aglionby Academy was the number one reason Blue had developed her two rules: One, stay away from boy... MAGGIE STIEFVATER In the end, he was nobody to Adam, he was nobody to Ronan. Adam spit his words back at him and Ronan... MAGGIE STIEFVATER I found it." "People find pennies," Gansey replied. "Or car keys. Or four-leaf clovers." "... MAGGIE STIEFVATER She recognized the strange happiness that came from loving something without knowing why you did, th... MAGGIE STIEFVATER When she opened her eyes, she was both in her body and watching it, nowhere near the cavity of the t... MAGGIE STIEFVATER I think they're here because I thought they ought to be here," Gansey said. Blue replied sarcas... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Adam had once told Gansey, "Rags to riches isn't a story anyone wants to hear until after it's done. MAGGIE STIEFVATER Blue tried not to look at Gansey's boat shoes; she felt better about him as a person if she pretende... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Gansey's partying with his mother," Ronan said. He smelled like beer. "And Noah's fucking dead. But ... MAGGIE STIEFVATER I guess now would be a good time to tell you," He said. "I took Chainsaw out of my dreams. MAGGIE STIEFVATER You missed World Hist." "Did you get notes for me?" "No. I thought you were dead in a ditc... MAGGIE STIEFVATER From the passenger seat, Ronan began to swear at Adam. It was a long, involved swear, using every fo... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Fate," Blue replied, glowering at her mother, "is a very weighty word to throw around before breakfa... MAGGIE STIEFVATER They were always walking away from him. But he never seemed able to walk away from them. MAGGIE STIEFVATER When Gansey was polite, it made him powerful. When Adam was polite, he was giving power away. MAGGIE STIEFVATER Ronan said, "I'm always straight." Adam replied "Oh, man, that's the biggest lie you've ever to... MAGGIE STIEFVATER You are being self-pitying." "I'm nearly done. You don't have much more of this to bear." ... MAGGIE STIEFVATER We have to be back in three hours," Ronan said. "I just fed Chainsaw but she'll need it again." MAGGIE STIEFVATER She wasn't interested in telling other people's futures. She was interested in going out and finding... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Right,' he said. 'So it stands to reason there's something about the line that fortifies or protects... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Nothing had changed. Nothing. MAGGIE STIEFVATER It was true that Blue was just shy of five feet and it was also true that she hadn't eaten her green... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Even though Ronan was snarling and Noah was sighing and Adam was hesitating, he didn’t turn to ver... MAGGIE STIEFVATER