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

This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight, like a spy, through the ripening country-side, and, with feigned sympathy for those who droop with August heat, puts her cool cloak of bracing air about leaf and flower and human shoulders.

- Sarah Orne Jewett

Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
- Henry James

One of these mornings
You're going to rise up singing
Then you'll spread your wings
And you'll take to the sky
- George Gershwin, Porgy & Bess

If you like piña coladas
And getting caught in the rain
And the feel of the ocean
And the taste of champagne
If you like making love and midnight
In the dunes of the cape
Then you're the love that I've looked for
Come with me and ESCAPE
- Jimmy Buffet

Don't wake me, I plan on sleeping...
- Postal Service

I hope you don't mind
I hope you don't mind
That I put down in words
How wonderful life is
Now you're in the world.
- Elton John

They say you only live once, but when you live like us once is enough...
- Unknown

There's a point in life when you realize who matters, who never did, and who always will.

And you had an apology in your mailbox since last July
It's funny when you find the words to say, you find no reply
- Something Corporate

We could drive out to the dunes tonight,
'Cause summer's almost here,
I've been up all night,
I might sleep all day,
Get your dreams just right,
Let them slip away
- Counting Crows

To live, would be an awfully big adventure
- Peter Pan

You have to forget about what other people say. When you're supposed to die, or when you're supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all these things. You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.
- Jimi Hendrix

Love is like the wind...you cant see it, but you can feel it
- The Notebook

The sun and the sand and a drink in my hand.
- Kenny Chesney

Someday somebody's going to ask you a question that you should say yes to.
- Old 97's

Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
- Willa Cather

Somebody already broke my heart
- Sade

Afterward, the universe will explode for your pleasure.
- Douglas Adams

In summer, the song sings itself.
- William Carlos Williams

So long, sweet summer. I stumbled upon you and gratefully basked in your rays. So long, sweet summer. I fell into you, now you're gratefully falling away.

- Dashboard Confessional

In summer, the song sings itself.
- William Carlos Williams