It's Not Summer Without You (Summer, #2)

by Jenny Han

When a person you love dies, it doesn’t feel real. It’s like it’s happening to someone else. It’s someone else’s life. I’ve never been good with the abstract. What does it mean when someone is really and truly gone?

Seeing your dad cry really messes with your mind.

There are moments in life that you wish with all your heart you could take back. Like, just erase from existence. Like, if you could, you’d erase yourself right out of existence too, just to make that moment not exist.

with everything in life, there’s the game-changing moment. The one moment everything else hinges upon, but you hardly ever know it at the time.

Kissing him, being with him like that … it was cool lemonade with a long straw, sweet and measured and pleasurable in a way that felt infinite.

How do you regret one of the best nights of your entire life? You don’t. You remember every word, every look. Even when it hurts, you still remember.

wanted to memorize it all in case I didn’t get to come back again. You never know the last time you’ll see a place. A person.

didn’t want my love to fade away one day like an old scar. I wanted it to burn forever.

Happiness is a Slurpee and a hot pink straw.