The Best Literary Quotes About August

August 11, 2022

The Best Literary Quotes About August

Some of our favourite literary quotes about the month of August.

August rain: the best of summer gone, and the new fall not yet born, the odd uneven time.

Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of june and august.

August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly included between the pages.

I love borders. August is the border between summer and autumn: it is the most beautiful month I know.

Leaving any bookstore is hard especially on a day in august when the street outside burns and glares, and the books inside are cool and crisp to the touch.

In august, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson hue, and by their weight again bent down and broke their tender limbs.

The first week of august hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning... It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons. and sunsets smeared with too much colour."

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