If. If Mingus Rude could be kept in this place, kept somehow in Dylan’s pocket, in his stinging, smudgy hands, then summer wouldn’t give way to whatever came after. If. If. Fat chance. Summer on...

Kun olen kuollut, kun olen kuollut.Kesä jatkuu. Kesä.

Maybe that’s what our friendship was. It was the feeling that we didn’t have to speak or explain. We could sit in the darkness and watch the tadpoles just as easily as we could lie...

He knew he would always remember her, standing there with that expectant, forward-looking smile, enough to turn the future into summer.

I grew up in St. Louis, and I don’t know if you’ve ever been to St. Louis in the middle of summer. There are days in the summer sometimes, weeks in the summer, where the...

Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.

Tears are the summer showers to the soul.

Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.

People were desperately trying to fill their seats for the summer. And so prices are really low right now. And so they are kept from raising prices to make up for that difference.

The Steadfast Love of the Lord is not Seasonal; His Mercies do not have winter or summer days… They are new every now and then.

Law school was over at last!

Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

I felt like summer had taken me over.

It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.

“I need to explain all this to Adam in private. I can’t get McGillicuddy to explain it to him. Something will be lost in translation.” “Well, excuse me that I can’t look at him all...

The girl was alluring. Like wildfire, or a summer storm swept off the Gulf of Oro.

The end-of-summer winds make people restless.

I am sad, like the hot dust on the streetsAnd the music of fresh fallen leavesCaught in a sliding summer breeze.

Bleeding for a decadeFor a decade,We bleed like there is no hell but the earthWe bleed like we were born to dare We bleed like there is nothing alive inside.We find a clueAfter a decadeBleeding...

A ‘T’ for Tess, a ‘T’ for Toby.

This couldn’t be just a lake. No real water was ever blue like that. A light breeze stirred the pin-cherry tree beside the window, ruffled the feathers of a fat sea gull promenading on the...

What’s blacker than black? Does summer shade have a shadow? Is that how loneliness looks and where it lurks?

When I was young, I loved summer and hated winter. When I got older I loved winter and hated summer. Now that I’m even older, and wiser, I hate both summer and winter.

Her legs swing complete afternoons away.

It wasn’t school that I dreaded at all. School was not half bad. In many ways, this year had been downright fun. No, what I hated most about school was the fact that I had...

Come with me,’ Mom says.To the library. Books and summertimego together.

However, although you might think this is the time of year to take some time off, you must never transgress one of the allotment rules: ‘Thou shan’t go on holiday in summer!

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

The cotton was open and spilling into the fields; the very air smelled of it. In field after field as he passed along the pickers, arrested in stooping attitudes, seemed fixed amid the constant surf...

The smell of hyacinths in the summer night air. At this moment, standing here with a boy I just met who already feels like home, I am overwhelmed with city love.

The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain.

She is something else.

For historical currents do not irresistibly propel themselves and everyone in their path. No matter what their broader structural or ideological roots, they both carry along and are carried along by people, who are not...

It’s just not.

My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.

I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.

Eighth grade’s a distant rumor, a tabled issue, and Dylan knows from experience that the summer between might change anything, everything. He and Mingus Rude too and even Arthur Lomb for that matter are released...

Dad” I pleaded, “this is so [cuss word you never, ever say in front of your mother] ridiculous.

The summer I turned eleven, I found out that ghosts are real. Guess it’s hard to rest nice and easy in your coffin if you got stuff on your mind. Your soul stays chained to...

A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn’t mean in winter.

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...

O! how shall summer’s honey breath hold out, / Against the wrackful siege of battering days?

Eestimaa suvi alles algab. See on lühike, kuid lumevaene, nagu ütlevad soomlased.

I love to play tennis. I play a lot in the summer. I’m not a big golfer; I need something a bit more intense.

I am attached to the west coast of Scotland – it’s gorgeous to look at and challenging. You have to contend with the possibility of being blown away or rained on. And in the summer...

My late summer shorts caught fire, and that’s when all the red of autumn began. We fell in love while she roasted marshmallows over my toasty genitals.

She’s got a two year start on me.

Though it was mid-July, the morning was brisk, the sky a gray cotton of clouds, and Puget Sound a steely, cold blue. Most of Seattle grumbled, worn with winterish weather, impatient for the elusive summer...

The first week of August hangs at the very top of the summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks...

Mystique saturates, gluts the air,Adventure’s even more than rare,Excitement’s everywhere to share,And Novelty’s beyond compare.