#QUOTES FROM TUCK EVERLASTING SKIN#

'Summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people. Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the tree house summer was everything good to eat it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape but most of all, summer was Dill.'ġ1. 'Summer was on the way Jem and I awaited it with impatience. 'I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.'ġ0. ― Yukio Mishima, Runaway Horses: The Sea of Fertility, 2ĩ. 'Again and again, the cicada's untiring cry pierced the sultry summer air like a needle at work on thick cotton cloth.' Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year – the days when summer is changing into autumn – the crickets spread the rumor of sadness and change.'Ĩ. 'The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last for ever. Out of school, everything was on pause and yet happening at the same time, this collection of weeks when anything was possible.'ħ. 'In the summer, the days were long, stretching into each other. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color.'Ħ.

The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. 'The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plathĥ. 'August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born.

'In the long dusks of summer we walked the suburban streets through scents of maple and cut grass, waiting for something to happen.'Ĥ. '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.'ģ. 'I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.'Ģ. I certainly smiled a lot when I read and collected these 23 quotes - I hope they do the same for you.ġ. After Googling the first quote you see here, I happened to stumble upon a handful of other great summertime quotes - some I had read before and others completely new to me - all of them bottling up some of the most magical aspects of summer: from its beckoning call of adventure to the way it sweetly breaks your heart once it's over. The other day, I was trying to recall a particular quote from Anne of Green Gables, remembering that it related specifically to the month of June and the promise of summer.

I think it's the fleeting nature of it all that makes it the sweetest.

#QUOTES FROM TUCK EVERLASTING SKIN#

There's something about summer - it's more a feeling than it is a season, isn't it?Ī feeling of newfound freedom from school or perhaps responsibility, a feeling of delicious idleness during long sunny afternoons, a feeling of nostalgia for backyard barbecues and sunburns of yesteryear that you can still almost feel warming your skin - and it's always going by too quickly.

Quotes from tuck everlasting