Invincible Summer Quotes

“When you're grieving, the times you're happy are so much more tragic than the times that you aren't. Because being happy feels fake and it feels temporary and it feels meaningless. And hating being happy is a shitty way to live.”
― Hannah Moskowitz, Invincible Summer

“My life is just something that happened to me.”
― Hannah Moskowitz, Invincible Summer

“There is no going back, so fuck you, universe.”
― Hannah Moskowitz, Invincible Summer

“Hellos are harder than good-byes”
― Hannah Moskowitz, Invincible Summer

“Don't ever let anyone tell you that college is for smart people. College eats smart people alive.”
― Hannah Moskowitz, Invincible Summer

“Soon we're both frowning hard at the paperwork. "Middle name?" Noah says. "Does Gideon even have a middle name?"
"I don't know"
Noah turns to me and says, "Do you have a middle name?" his glare implying that, if I do, this whole thing is somehow my fault.
"I...have no idea."
"Primary language spoken at home." Noah makes a face. "What does this mean? Our primary language? Gideon's? That's sort of why we're here..."
"Um, it's under family, so I'm guessing ours?"
"Well..." Noah lowers his pen. The paperwork has defeated him. "What's our primary language?"
"English? ASL? Physical affection?"
"Food?" Noah says.
"Food's a good guess."
He picks up the pen. "I'm writing food, comma passive aggressive."
"Good call.”
― Hannah Moskowitz, Invincible Summer

“There's so much about girls I don't understand. I don't know how I'm old enough to kiss them but not old enough to talk to them.”
― Hannah Moskowitz, Invincible Summer

“Camus-boy, you're always going to be the same you, just older. It's not like there's a moment when you wake up and go, Shit, I'm grown-up, I don't feel like myself anymore.'

I don't tell him, but this is the scariest fucking thing I've ever heard in my life. Being grown-up should feel like a big transition. It can't be something that, despite my best efforts, I've been drifting closer and closer to every summer. It needs to be a shock. I need to know at what point to stop holding on. And that moment will suck, and probably every moment after that will suck, but at least I'll know that everything that came before really was valid. I really was young and innocent. I wasn't fooling myself.”
― Hannah Moskowitz, Invincible Summer

“Without Melinda, you'd have no Camus."
I exhale. "I know." I know it to my fucking bones.”
― Hannah Moskowitz, Invincible Summer

“And I know, by Noah's face, that even though he knew it, he didn't believe it, even though we all knew it, we were all holding on, somehow, hoping they'd keep trying, that they could just keep on living and fighting. We trusted them to do that.”
― Hannah Moskowitz, Invincible Summer

“Dad laughs. “You want to take a break? Go play with them?”

The problem is I’m sixteen, almost seventeen, and I don’t want to play with them as much as I want to want to play with them. Maybe this feeling is what Noah’s been running from.”
― Hannah Moskowitz, Invincible Summer

“I want to tell her not to speak, want to say it, but her lips are on mine again and I taste me and I taste her and I don't taste what we're saying and I don't taste Noah. I taste Camus—I owe to such evenings the idea I have of innocence.”
― Hannah Moskowitz, Invincible Summer