These summer love quotes for couples will make your heart melt as fast as your favorite ice cream on a hot afternoon.
If you were born in the 70s, like I was, chances are when you hear the words, “summer love,” you instinctively add -“ing.”
The next thing you know, you’re alternating between John Travolta’s and Olivia Newton John’s lines until you belt out tell me more, tell me more! and are left kind of breathless and bewildered and wondering what the heck just happened.
What is it about summer that is so entwined with love – especially our first love?
Is it the long days, warm nights, lack of school, lack of ah – clothing?
Regardless if there’s reason for the summer love season, that the two go together like ramma lamma lamma ka dinga da dinga dong.
Whether it’s reflecting on how that first summer of love shaped you forever, or how much love is like summer itself, when it comes to love quotes, there’s so many that feature summer, all for you to enjoy.
You could write them in a card, send them in a love message, or reflect on them until you get all warm and gooey and go cuddle up to your partner just because.
Love quotes about summer
There was her face, like a summer peach, beautiful and warm, and the light of the candles reflected in her dark eyes. – Ray Bradbury
They are embossed on every song that was a hit that summer, in every novel I read during and after his stay, on anything from the smell of rosemary on hot days to the frantic rattle of the cicadas in the afternoon—smells and sounds I’d grown up with and known every year of my life until then but that had suddenly turned on me and acquired an inflection forever colored by the events of that summer. – André Aciman
I will always seek to make it summer for you. – Leigh Bardugo
Suppose I say summer, write the word “hummingbird,” put it in an envelope, take it down the hill to the box. When you open my letter you will recall those days and how much, just how much, I love you. – Raymond Carver
No, I don’t miss you… Not in a way that one is missed. But I think of you. Sometimes.
In the way that one might think of the summer sunshine on a winter night. – Sreesha Divakaran
I could taste the salt on her lips, each kiss like a summer wave breaking on an empty beach. – Michael Faudet
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I would spend my whole life loving him one way or another. Maybe I would get married, maybe I would have a family, but it wouldn’t matter, because a piece of my heart, the piece where summer lived, would always be…[his]. – Jenny Han
This is how we dreamed. Moonlight in our mouths, love on our lips, and summer in our skies. – Marie-Kristin Hofmann
Do you know what a pearl is and what an opal is? My soul when you came sauntering to me first through those sweet summer evenings was beautiful but with the pale passionless beauty of a pearl. Your love has passed through me and now I feel my mind something like an opal, that is, full of strange uncertain hues and colors, of warm lights and quick shadows and of broken music. – James Joyce
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
You were a summer gift, one I’ll always treasure. – Ellen Hopkins
You shine like the sun and you move like water. Your eyes are the perfect mix of gray and brown, like fog in the woods, and you smell like lilacs in the summer. I think if you laughed, it would sound like music. – M. Leighton
I loved a maid fair as summer, with sunlight in her hair. – George R.R. Martin
…This warmth in my hands and these summer memories will live on in my heart. – Yuki Midorikawa
Just to love! She did not ask to be loved. It was rapture enough just to sit there beside him in silence, alone in the summer night in the white splendor of moonshine, with the wind blowing down on them out of the pine woods. – Lucy Maud Montgomery
She holds the heat, the breeze of summer in the circle of her hand
I’d be happy with this summer if it’s all we ever had. – Maggie Stiefvater
I could tell them about the different kinds of rain, pouring rain that’s perfect for when you want to stay inside and watch a movie or read, or piercing rain that feels like needles on your skin, or soft summer rain that makes your first kiss with your first love all the sweeter. – Beth Revis
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She smelled like road dust, and honey, and the smell the air holds seconds before a heavy summer rain.
Neither of us spoke. I closed my eyes. The closeness of her was the sweetest, sharpest thing I had ever known. – Patrick Rothfuss
The love she felt for … [him] now was a burning tenderness, a knowledge that he was the one who’d taught he it was possible to love, who had melted the ice of her heart. It was strong and gentle and steady, full of admiration and the intimacy of shared likes and dislikes. It was golden and warm like a summer afternoon. – L.J. Smith
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date – William Shakespeare
A life without love is like a year without summer. – Jenna Evans Welch
And if in some distant place in the future we see each other in our new lives, I’ll smile at you with joy and remember how we spent the summer beneath the trees, learning from each other and growing in love. – Nicholas Sparks
I can remember every moment we were together, and in each of them there was something wonderful. I can’t really pick any one time that meant more than any other. The entire summer was perfect, the kind of summer everyone should have. How could I pick one moment over another? – Nicholas Sparks
Those hours given over to basking in the glow of an imagined future, of being carried away in streams of promise by a love or a passion so strong that one felt altered forever and convinced that even the smallest particle of the surrounding world was charged with purpose of impossible grandeur; ah, yes, and one would look up into the trees and be thrilled by the wind-loosened river of pale, gold foliage cascading down and by the high, melodious singing of countless birds; those moments, so many and so long ago, still come back, but briefly, like fireflies in the perfumed heat of summer night. – Mark Strand
If I breathe you in and you breathe me out, I swear we can breathe forever. I swear I’ll find summer in your winter and spring in your autumn and always, hands at the ends of your fingers, arms at the ends of your shoulders and I swear, when we run out of forever, when we run out of air, your name will be the last word that my lungs make air for. – Iain Thomas
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The summer love quotes for couples are perfect whether you’re feeling nostalgic from your own summer of love, or are looking for a short caption for your summer pics.
Which one was your favorite?