“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
“So I lay there, sweating and sizzling like a piece of chicken on a grill.”
― The Summer I Turned Pretty
― The Summer I Turned Pretty
“You’re cooler than any other girl I’ve ever met, and you’re there for me. You’ve always been there for me. I… I can count on you. And you can count on me too. You know that.”
― The Summer I Turned Pretty
― The Summer I Turned Pretty
“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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