With summer fast approaching, there is nothing quite like a summer romance. Long days, warm nights, and the thrill of an unexpected connection—summer romance captures the magic of love when the world feels a little more alive.

Whether it’s a fleeting beachside fling or a transformative love that lingers long after the sun sets, these passionate quotes remind us that sometimes, the best love is a summer love.

1.

“If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.”

― Bernard Williams

2.

“The dreamy days and sticky nights of summer were already calling, as if anything could happen.”

― C.J. Carlyon

3.

“I love how she makes me feel, like anything is possible, or like life is worth it.”

― Tom Hansen (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), 500 Days Of Summer

4.

“Summer has always been good to me, even the bittersweet end, with the slanted yellow light.”

― Paul Monette

5.

“This is how we dreamed. Moonlight in our mouths, love on our lips, and summer in our skies.”

― Marie-Kristin Hofmann

6.

“Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald

7.

“Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August.”

― Jenny Han

8.

“Green was the silence, wet was the light,

the month of June trembled like a butterfly.”

― Pablo Neruda

9.

“Summer was a book of hope. That’s why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe.”

― Benjamin Alire Sáenz

10.

“The sunlight was a benediction. The breezes were so caressingly soft and intimate on the skin as to be embarrassing.”

― Dan Simmons

11.

“In the long dusks of summer we walked the suburban streets through scents of maple and cut grass, waiting for something to happen.”

― Steven Millhauser

12.

“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