
“I wondered if this was the way old crushes died, with a whimper, slowly, and then, just like that—gone.”
― The Summer I Turned Pretty
― The Summer I Turned Pretty
“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. It’s like the whole tree falling in the forest thing.”
― The Summer I Turned Pretty
― The Summer I Turned Pretty
“In the dark you can feel really close to a person. You can say whatever you want.”
― The Summer I Turned Pretty
― The Summer I Turned Pretty
“For me, it was almost like winter didn’t count. Summer was what mattered. My whole life was measured in summers.”
― The Summer I Turned Pretty
― The Summer I Turned Pretty
“For me there was-is-nothing better than walking on the beach late at night. It feels like you could walk forever, like the whole night is yours and so is the ocean. When you walk on the beach at night, you can say things you can't say in real life. In the dark you can feel really close to a person. You can say whatever you want.”
― The Summer I Turned Pretty
― The Summer I Turned Pretty

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