Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)

by Abby Jimenez

The moment Emma came into view, my entire world slipped into slow motion. My brain took a screenshot. I felt the moment freeze and save. She was beautiful.

Everything was different in person.

I like cats.

“Why not forgive? In a world where you can choose anger or empathy, always choose empathy,

Always choose empathy…

Sometimes the best way to show love or be kind to someone is to meet them where they are.”

I think sometimes the key to happiness is framing those things in a different way.”

“Unhealed trauma is a crack. And all the little hard things that trickle into it that would have rolled off someone else, settle. Then when life gets cold, that crack gets

bigger, longer, deeper. It makes new breaks.

Being broken is not an excuse for bad behavior, you still have to make good choices and do the right thing. But it can be the reason. And sometimes understan...

You can still love someone that you’ve decided not to speak to anymore. You can still wish them well and hope for the best for them. Choosing a life without them doesn’t mean you stop caring about them. It just means that you can’t allow them to harm you anymore.

Sometimes I felt like I was roaming this earth as a ghost, seeing everything and feeling nothing.

Not everything that comes out of crisis is bad. Sometimes your traumas are the reason you know how to help.

even though I loved her, I wasn’t sure I liked her.

him* (dad)

when you’re in love, you do hard things.

“You can’t help someone unless they want to be helped,”

“You are not what happened to you. You are what you do next.”