"That Summer" Quotes
Over one transformative summer, fifteen-year-old Haven confronts changes in her family and herself while grappling with nostalgia and the complexities of growing up.
young adult | 208 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.
Some things don't get better. They can't. It's like...missing pieces of a puzzle, things that used to fit together. They just don't anymore.
The truth is, you can't always believe what you see. The real truth is that you can't believe everything you think.
It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching, and rarely discovered.
Some things, once you've loved them, become yours forever. And if you try to let them go, they only circle back and return to you.
But in the real world, you couldnt really just split a family down the middle, mom on one side, dad the other, with the child equally divided between. It was like when you ripped a piece of paper into two: no matter how you tried, the seams never fit exactly right again. It was what you couldn't see, those tiniest of pieces, that were lost in the severing, and their absence kept everything from being complete.
Sometimes people jump to conclusions because it's easier than gathering all the facts.
Sometimes people just didn't know what to say, and so they just said nothing, and let the silence say it all.
To be careful with people and with words was a rare and beautiful thing.
The heart is an amazing instrument. It starts out broken, but it fixes itself.
