summer.

“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, the great gatsby}

“Come with me,' Mom says.
To the library.
Books and summertime
go together.” {Lisa Schroeder}

“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”

{Henry James}

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