Summer Romance Quotes

“You get a dog and you know two things - you're going to fall in love with it and it's going to die one day. You knowingly walk headfirst into a heartbreak. That's the basic madness of dog ownership.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance

“You can’t just keep doing what you’re doing and wait for it to turn into something happy. You kind of have to look for the happy things along the way.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance

“Because that’s what life is—joy peppered by loss. It’s why you get a dog. And then you get another dog.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance

“Life’s going to do what life’s going to do, Alice. You might as well have a dog.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance

“Because that's what life is - joy peppered by loss. It's why you get a dog. And then you get another dog. Madness repeating itself just to get another taste of joy.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance

“When I’m quiet I can hear my heart yearning for impossible things. I want a perfectly pared-down home, and I want to hang on to every scrap of the past. I want a break from my kids without missing a single minute of their lives. I long for a partnership, and I long for freedom. I long to be enmeshed with someone without losing myself. I want all of it. Maybe”
― Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance

“You’re the architect of your own experience.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance

“And now I can never unknow the truest true thing - the intensity of the love you feel will match the intensity of its loss. This is practically physics.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance

“It's a lot easier to work through other people's problems. I think I must be very attached to my own.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance

“Love is not If you clean up, I’ll help you through your grief. I’m not sure what love is, but I think it’s something different from that.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance

“It’s funny, what you’ll do for your kids but not for yourself.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance

“It’s starting to feel like a champagne summer.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance

“I am the architect of my own experience.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance

“Remember she is as close as your breath.” I have turned that sentence around in my mind for years. I originally took it to mean that she would come from the beyond and stay right next to me throughout my life. Her spirit would wrap itself around me when I needed her. And, maybe. I feel her presence all the time. She has the habit of leaving hearts in the bottom of my coffee cup and sending cardinals into my line of sight when I’m thinking of her. But what I’ve come to understand is that the love we receive, especially from our parents, becomes a part of us. We internalize the ways they showed their love, the things they always said. Their comfort becomes self-comfort. And that love, like our breath, is inside of us and outside of us all at once.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance

“Because that’s what life is—joy peppered by loss. It’s why you get a dog. And then you get another dog. Madness repeating itself just to get another taste of joy.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance

“Spring is always coming,” Phyllis says. “It never doesn’t come.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance

“No,” I say. “He caught me. Just like Fancy would have. And I’ll always catch you too.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance

“This is Ethan’s superpower, I think. His ability to meet people where they are and just hold the space for them to step into their best selves without any expectation of what that might be.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance

“He listens to me in a way that makes me want to share everything.

You get a dog and you know two things - you’re going to fall in love with it and it’s going to die one day. You knowingly walk headfirst into a heartbreak. That’s the basic madness of dog ownership.

I’ve lost all of my friends by now, but it was worth having had them.”
― Annabel Monaghan , Summer Romance

“How complicated it is to be a daughter and a person.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance

“And it’s in this moment that I understand my mother’s love for me. I can still feel the intensity of that love and the way she walked into my home, bright as the sun, and blinded me to all the shadows. How lucky I was to be loved like that.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance

“I love the way summer rain comes out of nowhere and hits you hard like a love affair.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance

“All the times I looked up there and felt my own longing, I really had no idea what love could be. And now I can never unknow the truest true thing—the intensity of the love you feel will match the intensity of its loss.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance

“For sure, being prepared is self-care.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance

“Maybe that’s the essence of a summer romance: it’s the impossible thing—a love affair with no reality check.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance

“Bringing another person a cup of coffee says I’m thinking about how your day is going to go. Or at a minimum, I want you to also have this thing that I’m going to enjoy. I am weirdly moved by this.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance

“he’s looking at me like I’m someone I used to be.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance

“get in my car and talk to my dead mother.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance

“You get a dog and you know two things—you’re going to fall in love with it and it’s going to die one day. You knowingly walk headfirst into a heartbreak.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance

“Spring is always coming, and I know for sure that I will always have a dog.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance