Nantucket Blue Quotes

“Without a best friend to tell stories to, it almost didn't matter if they even happened.”
― Leila Howland, Nantucket Blue

“It's not fair. Guys can embrace their fatness as a unique personality trait, but we girls have to sit on the very edge of chairs in our shorts so as not to reveal the back-of-the-leg cellulite we feel bad for having even though everyone does.”
― Leila Howland, Nantucket Blue

“Feelings find each other, I thought. Let one in and the others follow. At that moment it seemed that all our feelings were shimmering above us, around us, in a new and stunning constellation.”
― Leila Howland, Nantucket Blue

“Jules hated it when I used "delicious" to describe anything but food, but that day he was nothing if not a sugar cone of melting sea salt and caramel gelato.”
― Leila Howland, Nantucket Blue

“It wasn't fair. I wanted to take her to friend court. I wanted to sue her. But I could see the faces of the jury when it was revealed that her mother had just died. Died.”
― Leila Howland, Nantucket Blue

“Forget girls who died decades ago; words were ghosts. They were what haunted me.”
― Leila Howland, Nantucket Blue

“That's one thing about going to an all-girls' school your whole life: it's hard to believe that boys are people too.”
― Leila Howland, Nantucket Blue

“It always seemed like there was too much in real life I was supposed to be afraid of: drunk drivers, rapists, unwanted pregnancy, HPV, undercooked chicken, toxic shock syndrome, and a bad reputation.”
― Leila Howland, Nantucket Blue

“I wondered if I could make him laugh like that, if he was the kind of guy who believes that girls could also be funny.”
― Leila Howland, Nantucket Blue

“And what if that news anchor is creepy? He's too smooth, and he has that hairpiece.”
― Leila Howland, Nantucket Blue