There’s no point in believing in destiny if you’re too stubborn to give in to it.
“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
“I say, " I can't believe you're really here."
He sounds almost shy when he says, "Me neither." And then he hesitates. "Are you still coming with me?"
I cant believe he even has to ask. I would go anywhere. "Yes," I tell him. It feels like nothing else exists outside of that word, this moment. There's just us. Everything that happened this past summer and every summer before it, has all led up to this.
To Now”
― The Summer I Turned Pretty
He sounds almost shy when he says, "Me neither." And then he hesitates. "Are you still coming with me?"
I cant believe he even has to ask. I would go anywhere. "Yes," I tell him. It feels like nothing else exists outside of that word, this moment. There's just us. Everything that happened this past summer and every summer before it, has all led up to this.
To Now”
― The Summer I Turned Pretty
“When you walk on the beach at night, you can say things you can't say in real life.”
― 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
“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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