Leila Howland > Quotes

“Without a best friend to tell stories to, it almost didn't matter if they even happened.”
― Leila Howland, Nantucket Blue

“It's not fair. Guys can embrace their fatness as a unique personality trait, but we girls have to sit on the very edge of chairs in our shorts so as not to reveal the back-of-the-leg cellulite we feel bad for having even though everyone does.”
― Leila Howland, Nantucket Blue

“Feelings find each other, I thought. Let one in and the others follow. At that moment it seemed that all our feelings were shimmering above us, around us, in a new and stunning constellation.”
― Leila Howland, Nantucket Blue

“Jules hated it when I used "delicious" to describe anything but food, but that day he was nothing if not a sugar cone of melting sea salt and caramel gelato.”
― Leila Howland, Nantucket Blue

“It wasn't fair. I wanted to take her to friend court. I wanted to sue her. But I could see the faces of the jury when it was revealed that her mother had just died. Died.”
― Leila Howland, Nantucket Blue

“But here in Pruet, Marigold had discovered a new kind of tired. At night her limbs were loose and happy, tingling with a memory of the sun. And when her head hit the pillow on her boat bed, sleep became as sweet and irresistible as a bowl of peppermint stick ice cream.”
― Leila Howland, The Forget-Me-Not Summer

“Forget girls who died decades ago; words were ghosts. They were what haunted me.”
― Leila Howland, Nantucket Blue

“Maybe what couldn't be named was just as real as what could be. Maybe sometimes love existed in the spaces in between.”
― Leila Howland, Nantucket Red

“That's one thing about going to an all-girls' school your whole life: it's hard to believe that boys are people too.”
― Leila Howland, Nantucket Blue

“It was a good surprise hiding in a bad one" -Zinnie”
― Leila Howland, The Forget-Me-Not Summer

“We didn't kiss," I said. Jules cocked an eyebrow. "We brushed lips.”
― Leila Howland, Nantucket Red

“A little sadness in your happiness is nothing to be scared of. It brings out the happiness even more" -Aunt Sunny”
― Leila Howland, The Brightest Stars of Summer

“Don't cry over something that can't cry over you.”
― Leila Howland, The Brightest Stars of Summer

“It always seemed like there was too much in real life I was supposed to be afraid of: drunk drivers, rapists, unwanted pregnancy, HPV, undercooked chicken, toxic shock syndrome, and a bad reputation.”
― Leila Howland, Nantucket Blue

“...she had already tasted a delicious spoonful of sleep, and all she wanted was another.”
― Leila Howland, The Forget-Me-Not Summer

“I wondered if I could make him laugh like that, if he was the kind of guy who believes that girls could also be funny.”
― Leila Howland, Nantucket Blue

“Summer is our reward for getting through tough winters" - Tony”
― Leila Howland, The Silver Moon of Summer

“As she watched her sister walk away, she thought of the hollyhocks Aunt Sunny had planted and how she had said that they needed space between them or they wouldn’t reach their full height or bloom brightly. Her dad was right about sisters being like a circle of redwoods; their roots were intertwined. But Zinnie thought that sisters were also like those hollyhocks: They needed their own patches of dirt and bits of sunshine in order to grow. Besides,”
― Leila Howland, The Forget-Me-Not Summer

“We are helpful and happy,”
― Leila Howland, The Brightest Stars of Summer

“It's funny how everything can go wrong and yet feel exactly right" -Zinnie”
― Leila Howland, The Silver Moon of Summer

“...the one problem with not fighting was that the air stayed full of tension...”
― Leila Howland, The Silver Moon of Summer

“There was something about kindness coming so swiftly after humiliation that made it that much sweeter.”
― Leila Howland, The Silver Moon of Summer

“And what if that news anchor is creepy? He's too smooth, and he has that hairpiece.”
― Leila Howland, Nantucket Blue

“writer’s block,”
― Leila Howland, The Forget-Me-Not Summer

“As she watched her sister walk away, she thought of the hollyhocks Aunt Sunny had planted and how she had said that they needed space between them or they wouldn’t reach their full height or bloom brightly. Her dad was right about sisters being like a circle of redwoods; their roots were intertwined. But Zinnie thought that sisters were also like those hollyhocks: They needed their own patches of dirt and bits of sunshine in order to grow.”
― Leila Howland, The Forget-Me-Not Summer

“Life is a journey, and no matter where we wander, the path we make is home.”
― Leila Howland