Quotes from book
The Last Summer

Name: The Last Summer
Author: Ann Brashares

The Last Summer is a novel by Ann Brashares. Her first novel for adults, and her first outside of her acclaimed Traveling Pants series, was released on June 6, 2007 by Riverhead Books.

“Healing wasn’t always the best thing. Sometimes a hole was better left open. Sometimes it healed too thick and too well and left separate pieces fused and incompetent. And it was harder to reopen after that.”

Ann Brashares book The Last Summer

Source: 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”

Ann Brashares book The Last Summer

Source: The Last Summer

“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.”

Ann Brashares book The Last Summer

Source: The Last Summer

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

Ann Brashares book The Last Summer

Source: The Last Summer

“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.”

Ann Brashares book The Last Summer

Source: The Last Summer

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

Ann Brashares book The Last Summer

Source: The Last Summer

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

Ann Brashares book The Last Summer

Source: The Last Summer

“But like everything else, love changed.”

Ann Brashares book The Last Summer

Source: The Last Summer

“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.”

Ann Brashares book The Last Summer

Source: The Last Summer

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

Ann Brashares book The Last Summer

Source: The Last Summer

“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.”

Ann Brashares book The Last Summer

Source: The Last Summer

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

Ann Brashares book The Last Summer

Source: The Last Summer

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