"It's Not Summer Without You" Quotes
In "It's Not Summer Without You" by Jenny Han, Belly navigates the complexities of grief, love, and friendship during a transformative summer after losing someone she deeply cared about.
young adult | 288 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
It’s hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away a part of yourself.
I was used to being invisible. People rarely saw me, and if they saw me, they rarely remembered me.
I wished they could see me now; I wished they could see that I was somebody.
Sometimes it felt like I was the only one who cared. Like I was the only one who remembered.
Some things are meant to be and some things are just never gonna happen.
If this was what life was, the slow and steady waiting, then I didn’t want it.
I wanted to be the kind of girl who could let go, who could say goodbye and mean it.
For me, it was always going to be a matter of waiting.
It was the kind of summer that knew exactly what it was doing, knew exactly how it would end.
He was my best friend, but he was never my boyfriend.
