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

by Abby Jimenez

“You wouldn’t want to be proposed to in public?” he asked. “Noooo.” “Yeah, I never really got that whole concept. It feels like something that should be intimate, right? Doing it in front of a bunch of strangers just feels so performative.”

What happened to George?” “He’s gone, Justin. May God rest his soul.” I blinked at her. “Your boyfriend died?” “He’s dead to me.”

“So four dates, one kiss, and a breakup.”

She was letting me know that Amber exasperated her,

I consider it my duty, it’s purely obligatory,

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

“You know how when something bad happens to someone you love, and you wish you could take it from them instead?”

“What if the universe listened? What if you or your mom or the kids were supposed to die in a car crash and your dad said ‘Take me instead’—and the universe did. And nobody remembers the way it was supposed to be because that’s the deal.

The fates are reversed and the tribute takes the thing he asked for to ...

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

“She’s here for what? Six hours? And she’s already hypnotized our landlord?”

“So you and I are never going to bullshit each other. The stone-cold truth, on demand, no filter, whenever we want it.