Summerlong Quotes

“Midlife is when you have to accept what you've created, knowing that the life you have is is the only one you'll live. And that can be terrifying, until you accept it, and then you are free of terror.”
― Dean Bakopoulos, Summerlong

“Then it’s just day by day. And most days are beautiful, Don. It’s regretting yesterday or overthinking tomorrow, that’s when ugliness comes in, right?”
― Dean Bakopoulos, Summerlong: A Novel

“We’re all terrible people. Eventually, we all become terrible, maybe around the middle of our lives, and then, if we’re lucky, we have time to find a way to be good again.”
― Dean Bakopoulos, Summerlong

“There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one. —Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go”
― Dean Bakopoulos, Summerlong: A Novel

“This is what e-mail is: either a cowardly way for people to ask favors of you that they would never ask in person, or a way for people to pretend they are having a friendship with you when they really are not.”
― Dean Bakopoulos, Summerlong: A Novel

“They could stay in Iowa. Lots of people do that. Millions of them, like four million of them, stay in Iowa, year after year.”
― Dean Bakopoulos, Summerlong: A Novel

“—Bon Iver, “Holocene”
― Dean Bakopoulos, Summerlong: A Novel

“hay gold dusk of late spring,”
― Dean Bakopoulos, Summerlong: A Novel