Leaving Paradise Quotes

“It's hard keeping everything the same when the same things look and feel so different”
― Simone Elkeles, Leaving Paradise

“No, the next time i kiss you it'll last a long, long time. And then when we're done you're gonna realize being turned on is not about experience”
― Simone Elkeles, Leaving Paradise

“My dream is to find a guy who'll love me despite my flaws and won't turn away from me when a perfect girl walks by. Maybe a boy like that doesn't even exist.”
― Simone Elkeles, Leaving Paradise

“One day soon, she'd have to leave the beach behind and go and find her real life, out in the rest of the world. The beach would shrink and fade and become part of her discarded childhood. Sometimes she almost wishes her father had never brought them here to live. Why show her what it was like to live in Paradise when her only choice was to leave again?”
― Cassandra Parkin, The Beach Hut