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“The issue isn’t whether he loved you, it’s how much. Too much. Love can be a poison.”
“He made it so hard not to love him. When he was sweet like this, I remembered why I did. Used to love him, I mean. I remembered everything.”
― The Summer I Turned Pretty
― The Summer I Turned Pretty
“Long ago, she’d learned that life could be bitterly disappointing if allowed. There were blows and stumbles, but your job was to stay interested in the world.”
― Seven Days in June
― Seven Days in June
“No matter how perilous the journey, it’s never over for true soul mates. Who doesn’t want a connection that burns forever, despite distance, time, and curses?”
― Seven Days in June
― Seven Days in June
“It’s hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away a part of yourself.”
― The Summer I Turned Pretty
― The Summer I Turned Pretty
“Look at history,” Eva continued, rubbing a temple. “Roxanne Shanté out-rapping grown men at fourteen. Serena winning the US Open at seventeen. Mary Shelley writing Frankenstein at eighteen. Josephine Baker conquering Paris at nineteen. Zelda Fitzgerald’s high school diary was so fire that her future husband stole entire passages to write The Great Gatsby. The eighteenth-century poet Phillis Wheatley published her first piece at fourteen, while enslaved. Joan of Arc. Greta Thunberg. Teen girls rearrange the fucking world.”
― Seven Days in June
― Seven Days in June
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