Stone Fruit Summer Quotes

“underneath the handful was the softest thing I'd ever known, a woman who felt everything too hard and hid it behind jokes while still showing up in gravel parking right when I needed her.”
― Jhéanell Westonberry, Stone Fruit Summer: A Deliciously Messy Friends to Lovers Summer Romance

“I didn't answer that. Some things you let sit in a room and rot on their own, you don't need to add nothing to them.”
― Jhéanell Westonberry, Stone Fruit Summer: A Deliciously Messy Friends to Lovers Summer Romance

“There's never a clear day. Never the perfect time to take a risk. You go in the storm or you don't go.”
― Jhéanell Westonberry, Stone Fruit Summer: A Deliciously Messy Friends to Lovers Summer Romance

“tonight," I began, "you're gonna feed me this peach 'til you're hoarse, Ru. 'Til I can't remember what anything else ever tasted like. I want it dripping down to my elbows. I want to be full and still going back for more. You understand me?”
― Jhéanell Westonberry, Stone Fruit Summer: A Deliciously Messy Friends to Lovers Summer Romance

“Je t'aime depuis le premier jour," I said, low, against her lips. I have loved you since the first day. "Il n'y a jamais eu personne d'autre. Il n'y aura jamais personne d'autre." There was never anyone else. There will never be anyone else.”
― Jhéanell Westonberry, Stone Fruit Summer: A Deliciously Messy Friends to Lovers Summer Romance

“We will mess each other up unintentionally, leak on to everything and everybody if we don't reach and clean this up.”
― Jhéanell Westonberry, Stone Fruit Summer: A Deliciously Messy Friends to Lovers Summer Romance

“Stone fruit is also the messiest thing you'll ever love. It doesn't let you keep your distance. It runs. It stains. You can't hold it carefully and expect to taste it, you have to commit. Have to let it ruin you a little. Have to decide that whatever it costs you to hold it is worth what it gives back.”
― Jhéanell Westonberry, Stone Fruit Summer: A Deliciously Messy Friends to Lovers Summer Romance

“Stone fruit only comes in summer. Peaches. Plums. Cherries. Nectarines. Fruit that’s sweet, heavy and impossible to eat without juice running down your wrist, staining your fingers, ruining something you're wearing. Demands all your whole attention or it's gone before you even decide you wanted it.”
― Jhéanell Westonberry, Stone Fruit Summer: A Deliciously Messy Friends to Lovers Summer Romance

“That real love sometimes means making the hard choice, the painful one. The choice that don't feel good in the moment but saves you both from something worse down the line.”
― Jhéanell Westonberry, Stone Fruit Summer: A Deliciously Messy Friends to Lovers Summer Romance

“But right things didn't always feel good. Sometimes right things felt like dying.”
― Jhéanell Westonberry, Stone Fruit Summer: A Deliciously Messy Friends to Lovers Summer Romance

“You're not a cheater, Aurelia. You're a woman who's been settling for scraps when she deserves a feast. You're a woman who finally got a taste of what love is supposed to feel like and it scared the hell out of you.”
― Jhéanell Westonberry, Stone Fruit Summer: A Deliciously Messy Friends to Lovers Summer Romance

“I'd rather stay in this... in between... aching for what could be but still having you close, than risk everything and lose you forever.”
― Jhéanell Westonberry, Stone Fruit Summer: A Deliciously Messy Friends to Lovers Summer Romance

“I'm tired of loving you through it. Of wanting you when all you do is want him. Of knowing exactly what you need, what you deserve, and watching you choose less.”
― Jhéanell Westonberry, Stone Fruit Summer: A Deliciously Messy Friends to Lovers Summer Romance

“Aurelia needed to stand up to him, find her own voice and use it. I couldn't fight all her battles for her or save her from every hard conversation. She had to learn to save herself. But I'd be damned if I let anything happen to her in the process.”
― Jhéanell Westonberry, Stone Fruit Summer: A Deliciously Messy Friends to Lovers Summer Romance

“But then something shifted. Her spine straightened, she lifted her chin, and when she spoke again, her voice came out softer but somehow stronger, like steel wrapped in silk.”
― Jhéanell Westonberry, Stone Fruit Summer: A Deliciously Messy Friends to Lovers Summer Romance

“There yall go with that Moulin Rouge shit,”
― Jhéanell Westonberry, Stone Fruit Summer: A Deliciously Messy Friends to Lovers Summer Romance

“I suppose it's necessary, since I'm sure the love of your life spent the night. Three is certainly a crowd.”
― Jhéanell Westonberry, Stone Fruit Summer: A Deliciously Messy Friends to Lovers Summer Romance

“You screamed my name so loud I had to cover your mouth. You dug your nails into my back so deep I had marks for weeks. You came so hard you soaked through my sheets, crying and shaking and telling me over and over that you knew, you knew I was the one for you. That this is what love was supposed to feel like. That you'd wasted so much time with him when you should've been with me.”
― Jhéanell Westonberry, Stone Fruit Summer: A Deliciously Messy Friends to Lovers Summer Romance

“I couldn't fight all her battles for her or save her from every hard conversation.”
― Jhéanell Westonberry, Stone Fruit Summer: A Deliciously Messy Friends to Lovers Summer Romance

“He refuses to speak your love language, refuses to even learn it, and instead of cutting him loose, you keep handing him the knife and acting surprised when he carves up your heart.”
― Jhéanell Westonberry, Stone Fruit Summer: A Deliciously Messy Friends to Lovers Summer Romance