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“Tuck Everlasting”, Literary Lines, Natalie Babbitt

The first week of August hangs on 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. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It’s curiously silent too, with blank white and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color.

~ Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting ~

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“The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe”, C.S. Lewis, Good Harbor Beach - Gloucester MA, Literary Lines

Good Harbor Beach – Gloucester, MA

[B]efore them were the sands, with rocks and little pools of salt water, and seaweed, and the smell of the sea and long miles of bluish-green waves breaking for ever and ever on the beach. And oh, the cry of the seagulls! Have you ever heard it? Can you remember?

~ C.S. Lewis, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe ~

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“Anne’s House of Dreams”, L.M. Montgomery, Literary Lines, Summer

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 ~

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Gratitude, Happiness, Literary Lines, Marcel Proust

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

~ Marcel Proust ~

Literary Lines ~ Summer Solstice Edition

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Literary Lines, Summer Solstice 2021

Solstice

How again today our patron star
whose ancient vista is the long view

turns its wide brightness now and here:
Below, we loll outdoors, sing & make fire.

We build no henge
but after our swim, linger

by the pond. Dapples flicker
pine trunks by the water.

Buzz & hum & wing & song combine.
Light builds a monument to its passing.

Frogs content themselves in bullish chirps,
hoopskirt blossoms

on thimbleberries fall, peeper toads
hop, lazy—

            Apex. The throaty world sings ripen.
Our grove slips past the sun’s long kiss.

We dress.
We head home in other starlight. 

Our earthly time is sweetening from this.

~ Tess Taylor ~

🌈Literary Lines ~ Pride Month Edition🌈

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”Symptoms of Being Human”, Jeff Garvin, Literary Lines, Pride Month 2021

The world isn’t binary. Everything isn’t black or white, yes or no. Sometimes it’s not a switch, it’s a dial.

~ Jeff Garvin, Symptoms of Being Human ~

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”To Kill A Mockingbird”, Harper Lee, Literary Lines

Harper Lee (Photo: Polaris Eyevine)

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view…Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.

~ Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird ~

Literary Lines ~ National Poetry Month Edition

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“There Will Come Soft Rain”, Literary Lines, National Poetry Month, Sara Teasdale

There will come soft rain and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;
And frogs in the pools singing at night,
And wild plum trees in tremulous white;
Robins will wear their feathery fire,
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;
And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.
Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree,
If mankind perished utterly;
And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn
Would scarcely know that we were gone.

~ Sara Teasdale, There Will Come Soft Rain ~

Literary Lines ~ National Poetry Month Edition

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”Kindness”, Literary Lines, Naomi Shihab Nye, National Poetry Month

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”Little Women”, Literary Lines, Louisa May Alcott, Women's History Month

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.

~ Louisa May Alcott, Little Women ~