The Summer After You and Me Quotes

“You flambe one car and now you think every song with fire is about you," Logan says. "Get over yourself, Catalano.”
― Jennifer Salvato Doktorski, How My Summer Went Up in Flames

“You're lucky. You're getting this over with now. You only fall in love for the first time once."
"That's very Taylor Swift of you," I say.”
― Jennifer Salvato Doktorski, How My Summer Went Up in Flames

“Screwing up is normal. It's human. It's what we do after, to make things right, that matters" -Lucy”
― Jennifer Salvato Doktorski, The Summer After You and Me

“...I have lived my entire life equidistant from the bay and the ocean. My moods depend on the tides. The ocean is my loud, my crazy, my scary, my thrill, sometimes all at once. But the bay? The bay is my calm, my quiet, my steady...
It's the place where I go to hear my own thoughts" -Lucy”
― Jennifer Salvato Doktorski, The Summer After You and Me

“Love isn't math; there are not precise answers. It's more like chemistry, governed by tiny, fast-moving, unpredictable particles that somehow find a way to collide. Every couple is its own equation, its own chemical reaction." -Lucy”
― Jennifer Salvato Doktorski, The Summer After You and Me

“There are no detours on a road trip, Catalano. There is only the road trip itself”
― Jennifer Salvato Doktorski, How My Summer Went Up in Flames

“Low expectations give me the gift of surprise sometimes.”
― Jennifer Salvato Doktorski, How My Summer Went Up in Flames

“Her dress is so tight and so short that I'm expecting a pole to drop down from the ceiling any second" -Lucy”
― Jennifer Salvato Doktorski, The Summer After You and Me

“Fifteen minutes into my [driving] lesson. I'm convinced love and parallel parking have a lot in common. There are tense moments and blind spots, and time when I can't see the curb at all. But then some mysterious force guides me and I find I'm right where I was meant to be.”
― Jennifer Salvato Doktorski, The Summer After You and Me

“You can count on two hands, maybe one, the number of species that mate for life. Love, the romantic kind, the obsessive kind, and sometimes even the unconditional kind, is counter-intuitive to the propagation of the species and survival, and yet when it's right and pure, it can be the one thing above all else that makes every second of your life worth living" -Lucy”
― Jennifer Salvato Doktorski, The Summer After You and Me

“All I know is, the longer people go without reaching out to each other, the harder it gets to make an attempt" -Lucy”
― Jennifer Salvato Doktorski, The Summer After You and Me

“Come September, where will I fit in? Thanks to Chad, I know now that I'm stronger than I thought. I'll get through it. Adapt or die. That is science and one of the first lessons I learned in biology. And it's so true. Ask any horseshoe crab. They've only been around for three hundred million years.”
― Jennifer Salvato Doktorski, The Summer After You and Me

“Siblicide. It sounds cruel, but the survival of many bird species like osprey, owls, egrets, and kingfishers depends upon some chicks offing their brothers and sisters.”
― Jennifer Salvato Doktorski, The Summer After You and Me