California Quote by Caroline C. Leighton

“Summer is too intense, winter is too heavy, fall is too dry, and spring, well it never comes.”

— Hala Alzaghal

“It was one of those summers you’re nostalgic for even before it passes. Pale, bled skies. Thunderstorms in the night. Sour-smelling dawns. It brought…

— Kevin Barry

“Just like every other year, there's a kind of death in the air as the summer is squelched by autumn. It is a lonely…

— Jessica Warman

“It’s funny how one summer can change everything. It must be something about the heat and the smell of chlorine, fresh-cut grass and honeysuckle,…

— Sarah Dessen

“Only after seeing the winter, do you comprehend the richness of summer. This was a big theme, and one I could confidently do: the…

— Martin Gayford

“Even as winter comes, mornings are crisp, and the big, blue sky seems to hang newly washed over the sea of hills.”

— Deborah Lawrenson

“I have heard the summer dust crying to be born.”

— Robinson Jeffers

“All summer it feels as if it will rain soon. All summer the strange feeling, 'something will break.”

— Luke Davies

“The pale, cold light of the winter sunset did not beautify - it was like the light of truth itself. When the smoky clouds…

— Willa Cather

“... the wind sprang up afresh, with a kind of bitter song, as if it said: "This is reality, whether you like it or…

— Willa Cather

“Summer has always been good to me, even the bittersweet end, with the slant of yellow light.”

— Paul Monette

“Summer's heat had never really arrived, nor the cold in it's turn, and everything living now seemed to yearn for sun with the anguish…

— Barbara Kingsolver