The Forget-Me-Not Summer Quotes

“But here in Pruet, Marigold had discovered a new kind of tired. At night her limbs were loose and happy, tingling with a memory of the sun. And when her head hit the pillow on her boat bed, sleep became as sweet and irresistible as a bowl of peppermint stick ice cream.”
― Leila Howland, The Forget-Me-Not Summer

“...she had already tasted a delicious spoonful of sleep, and all she wanted was another.”
― Leila Howland, The Forget-Me-Not Summer

“It was a good surprise hiding in a bad one" -Zinnie”
― Leila Howland, The Forget-Me-Not Summer

“writer’s block,”
― Leila Howland, The Forget-Me-Not Summer

“As she watched her sister walk away, she thought of the hollyhocks Aunt Sunny had planted and how she had said that they needed space between them or they wouldn’t reach their full height or bloom brightly. Her dad was right about sisters being like a circle of redwoods; their roots were intertwined. But Zinnie thought that sisters were also like those hollyhocks: They needed their own patches of dirt and bits of sunshine in order to grow.”
― Leila Howland, The Forget-Me-Not Summer

“As she watched her sister walk away, she thought of the hollyhocks Aunt Sunny had planted and how she had said that they needed space between them or they wouldn’t reach their full height or bloom brightly. Her dad was right about sisters being like a circle of redwoods; their roots were intertwined. But Zinnie thought that sisters were also like those hollyhocks: They needed their own patches of dirt and bits of sunshine in order to grow. Besides,”
― Leila Howland, The Forget-Me-Not Summer