The Summer I Turned Pretty (Summer, #1)

by Jenny Han

For me there was—is—nothing better than walking on the beach late at night. It feels like you could walk forever, like the whole night is yours and so is the ocean. When you walk on the beach at night, you can say things you can’t say in real life. In the dark you can feel really close to a person. You can say whatever you want.

This past summer I was filming The Summer I Turned Pretty series, and one night I was walking on the beach with a friend, and this very same thought flew into my head—that it’s so much easier to tell the truth at night. All these years later and I still believe it.