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“Everybody died that wanted to live, and I? I, though I went down to death's door, lived.”
― Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin

“I can't believe he even has to ask. I would go anywhere. 'Yes' I tell him. It feels like nothing else exists outside of this world, this moment. There's just us. Everything that happened this past summer, and every summer before it, has all led up to this. To now”
― Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

“I didn't know what to say to him. I loved Conrad and I probably always would. I would spend my life loving him one way or another. Maybe I would get married, maybe I would have a family, but it wouldn't matter, because a piece of my heart, the piece where summer lived, would always be Conrad's”
― Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

“So no, he didn’t give me flowers or candy. He gave me the moon and the stars. Infinity.”
― Jenny Han, We'll Always Have Summer