The Summer I Turned Pretty
Getty"Summer's the same. We're the ones who are changing."
2Betty Williams
Getty"When all else fails, take a vacation."
3Brian Wilson
Getty"Summer means happy times and good sunshine."
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4Sheryl Crow
Getty"I wanna soak up the sun."
5Bon Jovi
Getty"It's like a beach blanket and a bottle of wine, it feels something like summertime."
6Mungo Jerry
Getty"In the summertime, when the weather is hot, you can stretch right up and touch the sky."
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7Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
Country Living“I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.”
8K.D. Lang
Country Living“Sweet, sweet burn of sun and summer wind, and you, my friend, my new fun thing, my summer fling.”
9Anna Godbersen, Bright Young Things
Country Living“It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer.”
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10Yukio Mishima, Runaway Horses: The Sea of Fertility, 2
Country Living“Again and again, the cicada’s untiring cry pierced the sultry summer air like a needle at work on thick cotton cloth.”
11Junot Diaz, This Is How You Lose Her
Country Living“I felt like summer had taken me over.”
Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty
Country Living“Everything good, everything magical, happens between the months of June and August.”
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13The Beatles
getty images//Getty Images“But tomorrow may rain, so I’ll follow the sun.”
14Seals & Crofts
getty images//Getty Images"Summer breeze makes me feel fine."
15William Carlos Williams
getty images//Getty Images"In summer, the song sings itself."
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16Unknown
getty images//Getty Images"Your voice was the soundtrack of my summer."
17Maud Hart Lovelace
getty images//Getty Images"It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside."
18Benjamin Alire Saenz
getty images//Getty Images"Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside me."
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19Evelyn Waugh
Design: Rebekah Lowin"If it could only be like this always—always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe."
20C. Day Lewis
Design: Rebekah Lowin"Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon."
Ashley Leath is the Copy/Research Editor for Country Living and Veranda magazines. She also organizes the Country Living Front Porch Book Club and Veranda Sip & Read Book Club.
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