Cabin Crush Quotes

“He was right. I was a banana. Have you ever eaten one with Nutella? They were dang good. Maybe I couldn’t make freshly squeezed orange juice, but I could amp up breakfast pancakes like nobody’s business.”
― Kasey Stockton, Cabin Crush

“You make the room brighter when you step into it. You make me relax when you sit by me. You make me feel like I could reach up and pluck the moon from the sky. Your smile is the best thing I’ve seen all week.”
― Kasey Stockton, Cabin Crush

“road while they passed. I let the car idle there for a minute and turned in the seat to face Rachael, waiting for her to look at me. “You’re comparing apples to oranges. No—bananas to oranges. They aren’t even close to the same.” Her nose wrinkled adorably. “What are you talking about?” “You’re a banana, Rach. You’re bright and sweet and delicious when slathered in peanut butter.” Her eyebrows lifted. “Like melted peanut butter from someone else’s s’more?” I laughed. “That wasn’t where I was going with that, but sure. You’re versatile and fantastic, a great addition to ice cream sundaes or a great snack when sliced and dried. But you wouldn’t be good in a juice.” “Come again?” “Stay with me, here. I have a point to this.” She looked unconvinced but nodded. I checked my rearview mirror, but no one was coming yet. We were safe to stay on the side of the road for a minute longer—at least long enough for me to make my point. “Bananas wouldn’t make a good breakfast juice. Sure, they’re good in a smoothie, but I’m talking all natural, freshly squeezed juice.” Her full lips turned up in a little smile. “Like orange juice?” “Yes, exactly. While bananas are totally a valid fruit, you can’t squeeze one and get a breakfast juice out of it.” “What does that have to do with me?” “Our parents set you up for perceived failure by all being doctors. They’re geniuses, all four of them, and very logical. But most importantly, their talents are different from yours, Rach. They’re all oranges, and you’re a banana. You need to stop comparing yourself to them and getting mad that you can’t make amazing orange juice when you’re not an orange.”
― Kasey Stockton, Cabin Crush

“Rob and Sharon had become a little too clingy with Max after they’d lost Johnny, not that anyone blamed them, and neither of them had really ever learned how to let go. Now their hands were being pried free, and their fingers were likely cracking from their prolonged grip.”
― Kasey Stockton, Cabin Crush

“They mourned, but they didn’t stop living.”
― Kasey Stockton, Cabin Crush

“but the cabin was different. At all those other events there was more mingling. Girlfriends. We only had a few hours together before we returned to our lives. But the cabin? That was seven days of uninterrupted time together. It was harder to subdue my impossible, unrequited feelings when he was always there and his girlfriend was absent. Our families guarded this togetherness closely.”
― Kasey Stockton, Cabin Crush

“We were a family in all the ways that counted.”
― Kasey Stockton, Cabin Crush