What does summer represent for you? A break from work? Time in the sunshine? Too much time in the sunshine? A season to make happy memories?

In honor of the first official week of summer, here are some fun and beautiful quotes about the summer season. Enjoy these quotes, and enjoy your 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

“I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days – three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.”
― John Keats, Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

“Summertime is always the best of what might be.”
― Charles Bowden

“Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair…”
― Susan Polis Schutz

All in all, it was a never-to-be-forgotten summer — one of those summers which come seldom into any life, but leave a rich heritage of beautiful memories in their going — one of those summers which, in a fortunate combination of delightful weather, delightful friends and delightful doing, come as near to perfection as anything can come in this world.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne’s House of Dreams