Summer Quote by John Cheever Download Open image ““He might have been compared to a summer's day, particularly the last hours of one.”” — John Cheever ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Summer
“The day felt almost like any other day of the summer, like they'd rewound and summer was still ahead of them. But this time,… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“I thought of summer as the living time; the rest of the year was the backward time, the writing time.” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“It was the very nature of summer. So many long, lazy days when blissfully, nothing changes, and then everything does, all at once.” — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“The cool bathed his eyes and slowed the flight of time-time, that had crept so insidiously through the lazy April afternoons, seemed so intangible… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“For me, it was almost like winter didn’t count. Summer was what mattered. My whole life was measured in summers.” — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
“The days were longer then (for time, like money, is measured by our needs), when summer afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly… — George Eliot Middlemarch Copy Share Image
“For me, it was almost like winter didn't count. Summer was what mattered. My whole life was measured in summers. Like I don't really… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
“when summer was still a word plump and generous and there was actual sunshine and time was impossibly deliciously luxuriously long and the idea… — Niall Williams Copy Share Image
“I leaned closer to look at it, at all those empty squares that represented the days of summer ahead.” — Morgan Matson Copy Share Image
The poet or storyteller who feels that he is competing with a superb double play in the World Series is a lost man. One… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
“She perceived vaguely the pitiful corruption of the adult world; how cruel and frail it was, like a worn piece of burlap, patched with… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
For lovers, touch is metamorphosis. All the parts of their bodies seem to change, and they seem to become something different and better. — John Cheever Copy Share Image
“I dream that someone in space says to me: So let us rush, then, to see the world. It is shaped like an egg,… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
I don't like to see all my energies, all of my youth, wasted in fur coats and radios and slipcovers. — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
At my back I hear the word-"homosexual"-and it seems to split my world in two.... It is ignorance, our ignorance of one another, that… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
One would never have guessed that the world had such a capacity for genuine grief. The most we can do is exploit our memories… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
“His stepmother -wearing a nightgown for comfort and a flowered hat for looks- had spent her days sitting in their parlor window in Baltimore… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. Courage tastes of blood. Stand up straight. Admire the world.… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
“When the water covers the earth the sun will vanish the darkess and the cold will come.When the last dragon and the last Elf… — Silvana de Mari Copy Share Image
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
Outside Buckingham Palace, the Royal Standard flies only when the reigning monarch is in residence. Sadly, there's no similar flag outside The Woods Jupiter,… — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
ME AND SUMMER GUNNA BE MOVING IN TOGETHER HELL YA ITS GUNNA BE BOSS!!!!! — Jon Hawes Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
"Summer Sisters" is probably my least autobiographical book. The whole idea started with rowing down the pond. And I heard an explosion. I don't… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
The sun, a red wheel, was sinking slowly in the west. Besides being spectacularly beautiful, the early-summer sunset was exceedingly soft and gentle: black… — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
In summer, my Sundays are often taken up with cricket. I play with a bunch of other over-competitive and overenthusiastic guys who I have… — Ben Elliot Copy Share Image
Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
All labours draw hame at even, And can to others say, "Thanks to the gracious God of heaven, Whilk sent this summer day." — Alexander Hume Copy Share Image
