He smelled like a sultry summer storm—cool, refreshing…

“It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.”

— Sylvia Plath

Again and again, the cicada's untiring cry pierced the sultry summer air like a needle at work on thick cotton cloth.

— Yukio Mishima

“The South is different from anywhere else on earth. Every time I returned, it seemed it was the beginning of my greatest story, like…

— Victoria Benton Frank

“Kissing Friedrich was like getting caught in a summer storm.”

— K.M. Shea

But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is.

— Joanna Baillie

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

— Sarah J. Maas

The summer days blow through fiercely. With the buried feeling that something is going to happen. Over a summer storm, Soon, the season will…

— Anonymous

“Like a summer storm, the ferment quickly passed,moving from explosive turmoil to exhausted calm in a few seconds.”

— Dennis Vickers

“Now, there's a twisty summer storm outside, and I desire nothing but this storm to come. The calm voice on the TV tells us…

— Ada Limon

That afternoon the sky was scattered with black clouds galloping in from the sea and clustering over the city. Flashes of lightening echoed on…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.

— Francis Quarles

I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

No one had ever called her wild before. She wanted to be wild now, for him. Wild seemed more enticing then a bowl of…

— Shannon Hale

I reminded myself: when a book lies unopened it might contain anything in the world, anything imaginable. It therefore, in that pregnant moment before…

— Catherynne M. Valente

My nominee for Best Picture of the year - maybe the best picture ever, because it's essentially made up of and is an ecstatic…

— Jerry Saltz