Cruel Summer Quotes

“If I had a star for every time I thought of you, I’d have a whole galaxy.”
― Morgan Elizabeth, Cruel Summer

“To everyone who has ever been called ‘unlikable.’ Fuck them. Every single one of them.”
― Morgan Elizabeth, Cruel Summer

“Life is about getting your heart broken. When you die, do you want to remember all the times you avoided getting hurt, or the experiences and the people you met despite the pain the world can dish out?”
― Morgan Elizabeth, Cruel Summer

“If you were too young for me, I wouldn’t be making sure I was the one serving you every time you walked in here, angel.”
― Morgan Elizabeth, Cruel Summer

“Babe, you can come in here every single night, drop your troubles on me for as long as you’d like so long as it means you come in and keep me company.”
― Morgan Elizabeth, Cruel Summer

“You never grow if you never get uncomfortable.”
― Morgan Elizabeth, Cruel Summer

“It’s companionship. It’s finding someone who wants you to be your happiest and doing whatever it takes to get you that not because it benefits them, but because they like you and care for you enough to want you to have it.”
― Morgan Elizabeth, Cruel Summer

“I don’t flirt with the women who come into the bar. I don’t spend all day staring at my door, waiting to see if she’ll come in. I don’t get fancy fuckin’ wine just so I can see the smile on her face when I tell her I stocked it. I sure as fuck don’t give out my number in case she needs emotional support, and I definitely don’t stare at my phone for a week waiting for someone to text me.”
― Morgan Elizabeth, Cruel Summer

“Are you a banana? Good morning, Zach. Because I find you a-PEEL-ing. Back at you, handsome.”
― Morgan Elizabeth, Cruel Summer

“It’s a good thing I have a library card. Are libraries open on Saturdays? Because I’m totally checking you out. You’re a mess.”
― Morgan Elizabeth, Cruel Summer

“But she’s wrong. She’s wrong because this job wouldn’t be the only thing this cruel summer brought me. It brought me Zach.”
― Morgan Elizabeth, Cruel Summer

“I have ridiculous social anxiety. Can’t stand small talk. I can do it when I’m thinking of it as a business transaction or work or wherever. But if it’s a party for me?” I cringe. “Nope.”
― Morgan Elizabeth, Cruel Summer

“This is it. This is what everyone wants, isn’t it? It’s not the sex or the romance people ache for when they say they want someone in their life. It’s not the fun date nights and couple’s vacations driving people to face the torture of dating apps. It’s companionship. It’s finding someone who wants you to be your happiest and doing whatever it takes to get you that not because it benefits them, but because they like you and care for you enough to want you to have it.”
― Morgan Elizabeth, Cruel Summer

“Men don’t do this. Men don’t see an incredibly flawed woman, a woman with so much baggage she regularly goes on revenge missions just to feel something, and tell them they love them like crazy. When my brand of truth comes out, men get wide-eyed and call her a psychopath. They tell her she’s crazy and ask her not to slit their tires. When a woman like me shows her true colors to a man, shows the darkness hiding between the sweet, curated version of herself, she loses him.”
― Morgan Elizabeth, Cruel Summer

“maybe I leave them for the next girl, so he doesn’t have to go through the process again. That twists the knife a bit, the thought of a next girl. I hope she’s better than me. Kinder, smarter. I hope she makes Zach happy and does everything in her power to hold on tight to him. He deserves that. I already hate her. God, I’m fucked up, aren’t I?”
― Morgan Elizabeth, Cruel Summer

“I just think, generally speaking, people give out chances too easily, like they’re trading cards or sticks of gum or Oprah giving out cars. You get a chance and you get a chance and you, over there, get a second and third and fourth chance!”
― Morgan Elizabeth, Cruel Summer

“She still thinks this is some fun summer fling, that once Labor Day rolls around, she’ll go back to the city or wherever and start her new life without me. It’s going to take a lot of work. That’s fine by me though. I’m a patient man.”
― Morgan Elizabeth, Cruel Summer

“Why are you so chipper?” she asks, caution in her words. “Oh, you know. The sun’s shining, we have a new client to interview today, and your dad ate me out before I got to work.”
― Morgan Elizabeth, Cruel Summer

“I love my body but the world doesn’t.” It’s a truth I don’t know if I’ve ever said out loud. “Good thing I’m not the world, right?” is all he says”
― Morgan Elizabeth, Cruel Summer

“Show me the parts of you you don’t like because I swear to fuck, Cami, I’ve been staring at you for weeks. Now that I’ve got you half naked in my bed, I can’t find a single fucking flaw.”
― Morgan Elizabeth, Cruel Summer

“If you’re going to be in my bed, you need to know just how fucking beautiful you are. The shit I’m going to do to you, your head can’t get in the way.”
― Morgan Elizabeth, Cruel Summer

“a man who, even if Abbie walked into an all-white party wearing hot pink and feathers, would tell her people were staring because she’s so fucking beautiful, she takes his breath away, not because she’s a sore thumb.”
― Morgan Elizabeth, Cruel Summer

“I can’t decide if you guys are awesome or fucking unhinged,”
― Morgan Elizabeth, Cruel Summer

“I love my body but the world doesn’t.”
― Morgan Elizabeth, Cruel Summer

“Because I have two friends and I’m fine with that. In fact, I prefer it to be that way. Too many friends opens up complications and the opportunity for disappointment.”
― Morgan Elizabeth, Cruel Summer

“His response puts butterflies into my belly.”
― Morgan Elizabeth, Cruel Summer

“The thing about anxiety is, it’s not always reasonable.”
― Morgan Elizabeth, Cruel Summer

“The best revenge, Cami, is letting them see you thrive when they wanted to watch you fail spectacularly.”
― Morgan Elizabeth, Cruel Summer

“She’s just unapologetically herself, and if you don’t like her, I’m pretty sure she wouldn’t give a fuck.”
― Morgan Elizabeth, Cruel Summer