Quotes from bookThat Summer

That Summer is Sarah Dessen's first novel, published in 1996. This novel and Dessen's Someone Like You are the basis for the film How to Deal.
Sarah Dessen book That Summer
Source: That Summer (1996)
Context: Maybe not, she said as we came to the car. But maybe that isn't so bad. You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends. The first boy is always the hardest to get over, Haven. It's just the way the world works.
“It was just perfect, just right all at once.”
Sarah Dessen book That Summer
Source: That Summer (1996)