These Summer Storms Quotes

“Her father was incredibly easy to fall in love with, and absolutely impossible to love.”
― Sarah MacLean, These Summer Storms

“Maybe they were in that gorgeous moment in life when there was no such thing as the dark. Instead, it was all daytime, full of promise and empty of fear.”
― Sarah MacLean, These Summer Storms

“The top buttons of his shirt were undone, and the cuffs were rolled up in that effortless way men had - like they didn't know how it triggered women's reptilian brains.”
― Sarah MacLean, These Summer Storms

“Franklin knew better than anyone that the way to keep things valuable was to keep them secret. Everyone loved the promise of a secret, after all.”
― Sarah MacLean, These Summer Storms

“Wealth had a way about it, an ease that was difficult to explain but impossible not to recognize, especially if you’d spent your life around it. Though it came in many forms, from confidence to carelessness, it pervaded a person’s worldview, was impossible to replicate, and incredibly difficult to hide.”
― Sarah MacLean, These Summer Storms

“Tony was staring at Greta like she was the only thing in his world, like she was the sun—so raw and honest that it felt wrong that anyone was there to witness it.”
― Sarah MacLean, These Summer Storms

“Griffin. She sucked in a breath at the bold name—one she’d worked hard to avoid since July Fourth, when he’d broken her heart and left her alone, with no good reason except…It doesn’t feel right anymore, babe.”
― Sarah MacLean, These Summer Storms

“Dads are like that,” she said, softly. “They’re the first kings we know, for better or worse.”
― Sarah MacLean, These Summer Storms

“No. Not because it’s my job. Because you’re going to be my life.”
― Sarah MacLean, These Summer Storms

“spent my whole life wanting this. Aching for exactly this—for this feeling. For the knowledge that I had someone on my side, and now you’re here and you’re fucking great. I want you. Not for the company or the stock or the money. Not out of some misplaced loyalty toward your dad. I want it for me, because I’m a selfish bastard, and I’ve wanted you since the moment I sat next to you on that train.” “Oh,” Emily whispered. “He’s good.” “I thought he was an asshole,” Sam said. “Both,” Greta added.”
― Sarah MacLean, These Summer Storms

“It’s okay, sweetheart. I’m with you.”
― Sarah MacLean, These Summer Storms

“Sorry. I shouldn’t have asked.” Leaning forward and stopping the swing, he propped his elbows on his knees and met her gaze. “Do you want me to kick Griffin’s ass?”
― Sarah MacLean, These Summer Storms

“not.”
― Sarah MacLean, These Summer Storms

“Oh, Sam.” She took him in, looking despondent and totally unlike her brother. “Do you—want a hug?” He recoiled like she’d smacked him. “Absolutely”
― Sarah MacLean, These Summer Storms

“Alice, if I pitied you, I would be able to keep my hands off of you.”
― Sarah MacLean, These Summer Storms

“The only thing I regret about it is that I didn’t end him as well as your engagement. Don’t you ever let yourself feel ordinary again.”
― Sarah MacLean, These Summer Storms

“He doesn’t deserve to breathe the same air as you.”
― Sarah MacLean, These Summer Storms

“Sweetheart, if I thought you wouldn’t regret it, I’d take you upstairs to your tower room and make it the right time.” Now, why did her heart race at that sweetheart? Why did she want him to say it again? This was dangerous. He was dangerous.”
― Sarah MacLean, These Summer Storms

“What do you want me to say, Alice? That I wanted to fuck you?”
― Sarah MacLean, These Summer Storms

“It’s always worth leaving when someone doesn’t want you to stay.” Her therapist would be really proud of that answer.”
― Sarah MacLean, These Summer Storms

“I notice you.”
― Sarah MacLean, These Summer Storms

“There are honest-to-God real problems in the world. And here we are with an island full of people who can solve most of them. And they collect flags and lie about the Beatles.”
― Sarah MacLean, These Summer Storms

“It’s always worth leaving when someone doesn’t want you to stay.”
― Sarah MacLean, These Summer Storms

“frustration and sadness and a particular kind of disappointment that came with finally, finally seeing your parents for who they were—human.”
― Sarah MacLean, These Summer Storms

“Anyway. Sila’s going to lose her mind when she sees you in his T-shirt. And those shorts. A real combo.” Alice made a show of looking at her behind. “Here I was thinking I should go find my clothes and change.” “And miss all the fun?” For a moment, everything felt light again. Like they were just sisters and this was just an ordinary visit home to visit ordinary family. But there was nothing ordinary here.”
― Sarah MacLean, These Summer Storms

“You had a one-night stand thinking you’d never see him again and then he turned out to be the man standing between your family and a massive inheritance.” She paused. “It’s like a romance novel.”
― Sarah MacLean, These Summer Storms

“A calm before the Storms.”
― Sarah MacLean, These Summer Storms

“Your mother’s high, your sister is about to ruin her life, your brother is blaming everyone around him for his own problems, and tomorrow the island is hosting two ex-presidents, half the Fortune 100, a Nobel Prize winner, and a real live duke. Aren’t there enough shoes dropping?”
― Sarah MacLean, These Summer Storms

“Cute how you think having children makes you a grown-up,”
― Sarah MacLean, These Summer Storms

“Turned instantly into the past to make room for the future—a shift so quick that the present simply disappeared.”
― Sarah MacLean, These Summer Storms