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.

- Sylvia Plath

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

- Jenny Han

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.

- Jonathan Safran Foer

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

- Tove Jansson

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.

- Jane Smiley

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.

- Henry David Thoreau

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.

- Natalie Babbitt

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