Summer Secrets Quotes

“For as long as I can remember, I have always had the feeling of not quite fitting in, not being the same as everyone else.”
― Jane Green, Summer Secrets

“Alcohol made me beautiful in a way I never felt the rest of the time.”
― Jane Green, Summer Secrets

“Everyone in that garden knew it was only a matter of time before he kissed her.”
― Jane Green, Summer Secrets

“He turned and pulled her in, placed his hands on the sides of her face and gazed into her eyes, his head moving closer and closer----she still couldn't say anything, couldn't think of anything other than his mouth landing on hers.”
― Jane Green, Summer Secrets

“I wanted something seismic to happen at the end. I wanted him to wake up so we could somehow forgive each other, say we loved each another, move on with some sense of closure, for I knew this would be the last time I saw him, but he didn’t wake up, and nothing was said.”
― Jane Green, Summer Secrets

“Life is where you look, right? I mean look for the bad, you'll find more of the bad, look for the good, you'll find more of the good.”
― Jane Green, Summer Secrets

“It was everything I had dreamed of, his hands snaking through my hair, my own wrapped around his back, unable to believe I had been given license to touch this boy I had loved for so long, license to hold him, to slip my tongue in his mouth, listen to him sigh with pleasure.”
― Jane Green, Summer Secrets

“My mother grieved appropriately for a woman who had lost her husband of almost thirty years so tragically, and then, after six months, she blossomed.”
― Jane Green, Summer Secrets

“Other people's behavior is none of my business.”
― Jane Green, Summer Secrets

“I am beginning to realize, at the ripe old age of twenty-nine, that one of the problems I have in life is a tendency to completely romanticize how things will be in the future, which inevitably leads to disappointment because it's pretty much never, never, what I expect”
― Jane Green, Summer Secrets

“Other people's behavior is non of my business.”
― Jane Green, Summer Secrets

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. —MELODY BEATTIE”
― Jane Green, Summer Secrets

“I know that sounds odd, but I have always felt that the English love children as long as they are polite, quiet, and well behaved. Americans seem to love children however they behave.”
― Jane Green, Summer Secrets

“trust a man who doesn’t like children or animals,”
― Jane Green, Summer Secrets

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.”
― Jane Green, Summer Secrets

“I was built for comfort, not for speed”
― Jane Green, Summer Secrets

“fifteen-year-old teenagers,”
― Jane Green, Summer Secrets

“Horrible as this is to admit, I think I cried less because my dad was dying than for the dad I had never had.”
― Jane Green, Summer Secrets

“Her hair was grey and curly, her eyes a soft blue, her body seeming”
― Jane Green, Summer Secrets

“The reason most second marriages break up, I had read, was because of the children.”
― Jane Green, Summer Secrets