“I, I find all kinds of witchcraft slightly nauseating and this I find absolutely disgusting.”

– Sir James Forbes

And July 26, Joey's birthday. He's six now.

“And oh, are the Giants mad!”

– announcer on PA

Someone opens fire on August 15, the day of Ferragosto and the Virgin's Assumption

 

“The city… as if it were unborn. Rising into the sky with fingers of metal, limbs without flesh, girders without stone. Signs hanging without support. Wires dipping and swaying without poles. A city unborn. Flesh dissolved in an acid of light. A city of the dead.”

– Dr. James Xavier

Three people must decide what to do on August 13, 1961, the day the Berlin Wall goes up.

 

“Life has its tricks. Its oddities.”

– Jackie Demaistre

While the month is never explicitly stated, there's mention of August traffic jams.

“Matto, caldo, soldi, morto… girotondo…”

“It's a lot of work, ya know, just staying alive.”

– Rosemary Scott