“This morning, the sun endures past dawn. I realize that it is August: the summer’s last stand.”
˜Sara Baume, Irish novelist (b. 1984)
Embracing the Last Days of Summer
Summer
F. Scott Fitzgerald on Summer’s New Beginnings
“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 (b. September 24, 1896 – d. December 21, 1940), The Great Gatsby
June Musings: The Joy of Imaginative Reading
“When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it—or rather, it is like living it.
It makes reading so much more exciting, but I don’t suppose many people try to do it.”
˜ Dodie Smith (b. 3 May 1896 – d. 24 November 1990), I Capture the Castle
August
“Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past.”
˜Esther Meynell (b. 1878 – d. February 4, 1955)
July
“Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt.
The day as it comes. People as they come…
The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present, and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.”
~Audrey Hepburn (b. 4 May 1929 – d. 20 January 1993)
July
“She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them.
Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.”
~ Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
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