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

“frustration. “I 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.”
― 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

“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

“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

“This family is one bad accident away from a true-crime podcast.”
― Sarah MacLean, These Summer Storms

“shocked everyone in the room. “Alice asked me to help her with her bags.”
― Sarah MacLean, These Summer Storms

“But if I learned anything from that, it’s that this day—the days to come—they aren’t for him. They’re for you. Today is an end, but it’s also a beginning. Who were you before, and who will you be after?”
― Sarah MacLean, These Summer Storms

“It wasn’t just that she was the eldest, though she was a textbook eldest: emotional (aggressively caring), controlling (extremely dependable), and intense (having a sensitive stomach borne of a constant and deep-rooted concern that, at any moment, someone in the family might stray from the path).”
― Sarah MacLean, These Summer Storms

“His phone was open to some social app, one with endless scroll. He should turn that off. Endless scroll rotted a person’s brain.”
― Sarah MacLean, These Summer Storms

“Jack hated it for a different reason. He exhaled his disapproval. “No. Not because it’s my job. Because you’re going to be my life.”
― Sarah MacLean, These Summer Storms

“Alice, he…he didn’t know how. He’d never had to work for anything like you.”
― Sarah MacLean, These Summer Storms

“Tony was silent for a long moment, long enough that Alice wondered if he would answer. And then, finally, he said, “I don’t have to be on the payroll to want to keep you safe.”
― Sarah MacLean, These Summer Storms

“That won her a low laugh, and for a wild moment, she wondered what it might be like to make him laugh regularly. “Sweetheart, if I thought you wouldn’t regret it, I’d take you upstairs to your tower room and make it the right time.”
― Sarah MacLean, These Summer Storms

“she was a textbook eldest: emotional (aggressively caring)”
― Sarah MacLean, These Summer Storms

“hope you fall in love. It’s not always easy”
― 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

“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