All the Summer Girls Quotes

“Her fragility makes her uncomfortable, but it has a familiarity, too, like the biting cold of winter that you only half forget during other seasons.”
― Meg Donohue, All the Summer Girls

“She tilts the computer screen toward Drew "A boy," she says. "Luke." ....
"Luke," Drew repeats. "Bible or Star Wars?"
"Star Wars," Vanessa says, thinking of Teri's engineer husband.”
― Meg Donohue, All the Summer Girls

“Pedaling down Dune Drive on a red beach cruiser, Dani ahead of her and Vanessa behind her, is a transporting experience. The night is quiet; the air on her face is soft; her hair streams behind her; the stars above are as brilliant as stars in a children's book. They could be nine years old, or fifteen, or twenty-one; they've ridden bikes down Dune Drive at all of those ages and all of the ones in between. There must have been so much more to those summers, but what she remembers are the two weeks she spent in Avalon with Dani and Vanessa—two weeks that always went by too quickly, but that in memory stretch to fill an entire season.”
― Meg Donohue, All the Summer Girls

“What if childhood is like summer- the time when life is at its lush peak, before everything begins to wither and fall?”
― Meg Donohue, All the Summer Girls

“Legge come una persona affamata che si è vista porgere un vassoio pieno di ogni ben di Dio, con gli occhioni da Bambi che fremono sulla pagina. Si capisce che vive vicariamente l'esistenza fittizia dei personaggi dei libri per non pensare alla sua.”
― Meg Donohue, All the Summer Girls

“Thick, humid air cut with the salty funk of low tide and flip-flops smacking against hardened soles and hair drifting around you like seaweed as the ocean lifts you up toward a cloudless sky and the feeling that you will never be anything but young.”
― Meg Donohue, All the Summer Girls