“Compared to you, everyone else is saltines. Even Cam. And I hate saltines. You know that.”
― The Summer I Turned Pretty
― The Summer I Turned Pretty
“used to believe. I used to think that if I wanted it bad enough, wished hard enough, everything would work out the way it was supposed to. Destiny,”
― The Summer I Turned Pretty
― The Summer I Turned Pretty
“When she put the glass in her hand, and she looked at herself with the dress on, finished, an extraordinary bliss shot through her heart. Suffused with light, she sprang into existence. Rid of cares and wrinkles, what she dreamed of herself was here — a beautiful woman. Just for a second (she had dared not look longer), there looked at her, framed in the scrolloping mahogany, a grey-white, mysteriously smiling, charming girl, the core of herself, the soul of herself . . .”
― The New Dress
― The New Dress
“books.”
― The Summer I Turned Pretty
― The Summer I Turned Pretty
“Why do you like to win so much?” I didn’t have an answer for that, except to say that winning was fun, and anyway, who didn’t like to win?”
― The Summer I Turned Pretty
― The Summer I Turned Pretty
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