The Summer I Turned Pretty Quotes

“Sometimes it’s like people are a million times more beautiful to you in your mind. It’s like you see them through a special lens — but maybe if it’s how you see them,that’s how they really are.”
― Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

“Everybody had somebody but me.”
― Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

“It occurred to me that I was going to have to make the most of this summer, really make it count, in case there wasn't another one quite like it. I was getting older too. Things couldn't stay the same forever.”
― Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

“Catching him off guard felt like a good sign. He had a million walls. Maybe if I just started talking, he wouldn't have time to build up a new one.”
― Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

“The old pull, the tide drawing me back in. I kept getting caught in this current—first love, I mean. First love kept making me come back to this, to him. He still took my breath away, just being near him. I had been lying to myself the night before, thinking I was free, thinking I had let him go. It didn't matter what he said or did, I'd never let him go.”
― Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

“It was a total catch-22, like a contradiction in terms.”
― Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

“I quit because it was making my mom crazy. And I also just really missed Dr Pepper."

I liked Dr Pepper too.”
― Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

“You're the only boy I've ever thought about. My whole life, it's always been you.”
― Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty