“Hello August! You’re the perfect excuse for more ice cream and less responsibility”
– Unknown
“August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time”
– Sylvia Plath
“If it could only be like this always – always summer … the fruit always ripe”
– Evelyn Waugh
“August breeze— perched on the flame tree, a red-vented Bulbul”
― Meeta Ahluwalia
“August is the border between summer and autumn: it is the most beautiful month I know”
– Tove Jansson
“August was smoking hot, then September walked in as cool as a cucumber, and made her presence felt”
― Charmaine J Forde
“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
“The month of August had turned into a griddle where the days just lay there and sizzled”
― Sue Monk Kidd
“I just completed a long car trip on a Sunday in August with two small children, which, believe me. is enough to convince you that Samuel Beckett was right about everything”
― Lev Grossman
“August is a wicked month”
– Edna O’Brien