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“I stared at him. Did he really say that? Did he remember? The way he looked back at me, one eyebrow raised, I knew he did. And this time, I was the one to look away.
Because I remembered. I remembered everything.”
― Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

“Wait!" he yelled.
I didn't turn around, I walked faster. Then I heard him slam his fist on the hood of his car. I almost stopped.
Maybe I would have if he'd followed me. But he didn't. He got in his car and he left, just like he said he would.”
― Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

“When I used to picture forever, it was always with the same boy. In my dreams, my future was set. A sure thing. This isn’t the way I’d pictured it. … The future is unclear. But it’s still mine.”
― Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

“I could feel my insides sink. My knees too. So I sat on the ground, against the wall, letting it support me. I thought I knew what heartbreak felt like. I thought heartbreak was me, standing alone at the prom. That was nothing. This, this was heartbreak. The pain in your chest, the ache behind your eyes. The knowing that things will never be the same again. It’s all relative, I suppose. You think you know love, you think you know real pain, but you don’t. You don’t know anything.”
― Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

“In his eyes, there was no trace of what had happened earlier, and I could feel something inside me break. So that was that. We were finally, finally over.”
― Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

“i worried he'd let go, but he didn't. We held hands like this the whole rest of the way home.”
― Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

“You know what? Don’t even worry about it,” I said. “Cory Wheeler already asked me. I can tell him I changed my mind.”
“Who the hell is Corky Wheeler?”
― Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

“Instead I let the moment pass and I just sighed and leaned back onto my chair. The sky was pinky gold. I had the feeling that there was nothing
more beautiful than this, that this particular sunset matched the beauty of anything
in this world, ten times over. I could feel all the tension of the day drifting away from me and out to sea. I wanted to memorize it all in case I didn’t get to come back again. You never know the last time you’ll see a place. A person.”
― Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

“Happiness is a Slurpee and a hot pink straw.”
― Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

“A memory, pressed into my heart like a leaf in a book.”
― Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

“It’s not yours. I never gave it to you. You just took it.”

That’s when I finally got it. I finally understood. It wasn’t the thought that counted. It was the actual execution that mattered, the showing up for somebody. The intent behind it wasn’t enough. Not for me. Not anymore. It wasn’t enough to know that deep down, he loved me. You had to actually say it to somebody, show them that you cared. And he just didn’t. Not enough.”
― Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

“Just when we thought everything was going to be okay, we all fell apart.”
― Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

“My second thought was, I’m prettier than her.”
― Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

“Will you please tell me you love me? I’m dying here.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“Boys turns girls into such idiots.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“Girl scouts didn't teach me what to do with emotionally unstable drunk boys.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“Maybe that was how it was with all first loves. They own a little piece of your heart, always.”
― Jenny Han, We'll Always Have Summer

“But just because you bury something, that doesn’t mean it stops existing. Those feelings, they’d been there all along. All that time. I had to face it. He was part of my DNA. I had brown hair and I had freckles and I would always have Conrad in my heart.”
― Jenny Han, We'll Always Have Summer

“But just because you bury something, that doesn’t mean it stops existing.”
― Jenny Han, We'll Always Have Summer

“I love Jere more than anybody. He’s my brother, my family. I hate myself for doing this. But when I see you two together, I hate him too.” His voice broke.
“Don’t marry him. Don’t be with him. Be with me.”
― Jenny Han, We'll Always Have Summer

“Don’t marry him. Don’t be with him. Be with me.”
― Jenny Han, We'll Always Have Summer

“Sometimes I think I’ll never trust another girl the way I trust you.”
― Jenny Han, We'll Always Have Summer

“I don’t just want a part of you. I want all of you

Jeremiah Fisher”
― Jenny Han, We'll Always Have Summer

“You Are The Milk To My Shake, forever and ever. Love, J”
― Jenny Han, We'll Always Have Summer

“I would rather have had someone shoot me in the head with a nail gun, repeatedly, than have to watch the two of them cuddling on the couch together all night. --Conrad”
― Jenny Han, We'll Always Have Summer

“There is always the rest of the story, right? Even if you don’t know right now what it is.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Rest of the Story

“To summer, and to us.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Rest of the Story

“Because in the summers, the world came back to the lake,” she’d reply. “And that was when it felt like home.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Rest of the Story

“He plucked the book from my hands, inspected the cover. “I recognize this one. Haven’t you read this, like, a hundred times?”
“Twenty, actually,” I said, snatching it back. “Today marks the twenty-first time.”
He grinned. Shook his head.
“What?” I asked.
“Nothing. Nothing at all,” he said, jerking his chin toward the book on my legs.
“Read to me.”
"Why?”
“Because you go somewhere else when you read. I want to go there with you.”

We sat there and I read aloud, my back to Brett’s chest. He pulled me a little closer, held me a little tighter. And this time, we escaped together.”
― Alex Light, The Upside of Falling

“They’re feeding vulnerable readers lies about love and life and we’re buying into it like mindless consumers.”
― Alex Light, The Upside of Falling