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

by Jenny Han

But I didn’t regret it. I never regretted it, not for one second. 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.

I 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.

He kissed like he was drowning and I was air.

This was what people meant when they said the earth stopped turning. It felt like

a world outside of that car, that moment, didn’t exist. It was just us.

It was the actual execution that mattered, the showing up for somebody.

It wasn’t enough to know that deep down, he loved me. You had to actually say it to somebody, show them that you cared. And he just didn’t. Not enough.

In that moment, I’d wanted and needed him, too, more than I had ever known.

it haunted me and it thrilled me.

I will never look at you in the same way ever again. I’ll never be that girl again. The girl who comes running back every time you push her away, the girl who loves you anyway.