Quotes from book

The Last Summer

“You surround yourself with your pain or you avoid it and let it find you when you are trying to do other things”

“She wanted him to see all of her and also none of her. She wanted him to be dazzled by the bits and blinded by the whole. She wanted him to see her whole and not in pieces. She had hopes that were hard to satisfy.”

“she never showed girly weaknesses like cellulite or crushes. she never lingered on injustices committed against her.”

“It was hard to feel the right emotions at the right times. They didn’t come at all when you set a place for them, and they sacked when you weren’t ready, when you were just innocently flossing your teeth, for example, or eating a bowl of cereal.”

“Sometimes you couldn’t face the sadness of being forgotten until you felt the comfort of being remembered again.”

“You'll turn out ordinary if you're not careful.”

“But like everything else, love changed.”

“There was nothing new in sitting on this dock, on this or that wooden bench, watching for his boat to come. In some ways, she was always waiting for him.”

“There was love expressed in the places you usually forget to look.”

“She was astonished, and at the same time she knew. There were many things in life like that. You couldn’t imagine it, and then it happened and you couldn’t really imagine it hadn’t.”

“She wasn’t sure if he wanted more from her or if he wanted less. Maybe it was both. Maybe it was always both.”