The Summer I Turned Pretty Quotes with Page Numbers. The Summer I Turned Pretty is a trilogy of young adult romance novels written by American author Jenny Han, and published by Simon & Schuster. The series includes The Summer I Turned Pretty (2009), It's Not Summer Without You (2010), and We'll Always Have Summer (2011).
The novels follow Isabel "Belly" Conklin in the summers she spends at Cousins Beach with her mother and older brother, along with her mother's lifelong best friend and her sons. The book series has been a national best seller; its final installment spent more than a month on The New York Times Best Seller list.
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The Summer I Turned Pretty Quotes
- “Moments, when lost, can't be found again. They're just gone.”
- “It's the imperfections that make things beautiful”.
- “In the dark you can feel really close to a person. You can say whatever you want.”
- “Best friends are important. They're the closest thing to a sister you'll ever have.”
- “Would you rather live one perfect day over and over or live your life with no perfect days but just decent ones?”
- “When you walk on the beach at night, you can say things you can't say in real life.”
- “Victory is a thousand times sweeter when you're the underdog.”
- “Sometimes it’s like people are a million times more beautiful to you in your mind. It’s like you see them through a special lens — but maybe if it’s how you see them,that’s how they really are. It’s like the whole tree falling in the forest thing.”
- “Things couldn't stay the same forever.”
- “I wondered if this was the way old crushes died, with a whimper, slowly, and then, just like that—gone.”
- “For me, it was almost like winter didn’t count. Summer was what mattered. My whole life was measured in summers.”
- “It’s hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away a part of yourself.”
- “I had been lying to myself, thinking I was free, thinking I had let him go. It didn't matter what he said or did, I'd never let him go." - Belly Conklin”
- “Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer”.
- “On the way out Jeremiah turned around and danced a quick jig for me and i couldn't help it, I laughed. Over his shoulder Conrad said, "Good night Belly."
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The Summer I Turned Pretty Quotes with Page Numbers
- “It was like coming home after you’d been gone a long, long time. It held a million promises of summer and of what just might be.” Page 2.
- “The air tasted just the same, smelled just the same. The wind making my hair feel sticky, the salty sea breeze, all of it felt just right. Like it had been waiting for me to get there.” Page 3
- “For me, it was almost like winter didn’t count. Summer was what mattered. My whole life was measured in summers.” Page 5.
- “He smiled at me, and that smile — he just gets in. His smile did it every time.” Page 8.
- “It was a summer I would never, ever forget. It was the summer everything began. It was the summer I turned pretty. Because for the first time, I felt it. Pretty, I mean. Every summer up to this one, I believed it’d be different. Life would be different. And that summer, it finally was.” Page 21.
- “Sometimes it’s like people are a million times more beautiful to you in your mind. It’s like you see them through a special lens — but maybe if it’s how you see them, that’s how they really are. It’s like the whole tree falling in the forest thing.” Page 47.
- “Sometimes it’s like people are a million times more beautiful to you in your mind. It’s like you see them through a special lens — but maybe if it’s how you see them, that’s how they really are.” Page 47.
- “My mother was good at that, making people feel normal. Safe. Like as long as she was there, nothing truly bad could happen.” Page 56.
- “It occurred to me that I was going to have to make the most of this summer, really make it count, in case there wasn’t another one quite like it. I was getting older too. Things couldn’t stay the same forever.” Page 98.
- “Would you rather live one perfect day over and over or live your life with no perfect days but just decent ones?” Page 100.
- “Growing up with Steven and spending my summers with Jeremiah and Conrad, winning was always important, and doubly so because I was a girl and was never expected to win anything. Victory is a thousand times sweeter when you’re the underdog.” Page 133.
- “I loved the feeling of talking and having somebody really listen to what I have to say. It was like a high or something.” Page 142.
- “His voice made my shiver, it was like the sound f water when it pulls off sand.” Page 152.
- “Moments, when lost, can’t be found again. They’re just gone.” Page 153.
- “When you walk on the beach at night, you can say things you can’t say in real life.” Page 171.
- “In the dark you can feel really close to a person. You can say whatever you want.” Page 171.
- “Best friends are important. They’re the closest thing to a sister you’ll ever have.” Page 181.
- “It’s hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away a part of yourself.” Pages 186-187.
- “He made it so hard not to love him. When he was sweet like this, I remembered why I did. Used to love him, I mean. I remembered everything.” Page 191.
- “I didn’t dare look at Conrad. I was afraid my love for him and my need for him to say yes would be written on my face like a poem.” Page 193.
- “It’s the imperfections that make things beautiful” Page 215.
- “I had been lying to myself, thinking I was free, thinking I had let him go. It didn’t matter what he said or did, I’d never let him go.” Page 262.
- “We sat around the kitchen table picking off of foil-covered plates. Conrad kept sneaking looks at me, and every time I looked back, he looked away. I’m right here, I wanted to tell him. I’m still here.” Page 267.
- “Susannah continued. “If and when I go off slow dancing in the ever after, I don’t want to look like I’ve been stuck in a hospital room my whole life. I at least want to be tan.” 269.
- “For a second, I felt sad, and then suddenly, out of nowhere, it came to me. A memory, pressed in my heart like a leaf in my book.” Page 272.
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