The Summer Remains Quotes

“Life's supposed to be a little hard. If your life is too easy, you're doing it wrong.”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“If eyes are windows into the soul, books are rabbit holes into the imagination.”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“The love you left behind is so much greater than the regrets your departure created. You were more than worth the trouble. I pray I was too.”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“You know, we all have scars, Summer. If yours are only on the outside, you should consider yourself lucky.”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“Empathy was a sword with two edges. I was blessed with the ability to care deeply for people, and cursed with the knowledge that they would nearly always choose the worst for themselves.”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“You’re beautiful, and beautiful things don’t demand attention. It just gravitates to them.”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“Comparison is the enemy of happiness,”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“But for every epic love tale splashed out in lights for the world to see, there were ten million more couples that loved each other in the dark just as beautifully.”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“Humans appeared on a watery rock spinning around a ball of flames suspended in the middle of an endless ocean of nothing, and yet you still don't believe in a miracle like love?”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“Life’s supposed to be hard. If your life is too easy, that means you’re doing it wrong.”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“if a writer falls in love with you, you can never die.”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“But whatever happened, I knew I’d always have this summer, and that first night on the pier under the stars, with the waves surging around us, when we both glowed. And armed with that, I was not afraid. This summer, and this life, had been a privilege. I was sure of that.”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“You are so special and important and elegant and smart and kind and worthwhile, and you are so much better than me and everyone else I’ve ever known in every single way, and you are the only truth I have ever found in this lying world, and I love you to the floor of me, and it breaks me to imagine a future without you in it, and I just want you to know all that, just because.”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“She was everywhere and nowhere and nothing and she was gone.”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“Why do all the movies end with the couple running off into the sunset? That’s so boring. Where are the sad stories? That’s why I like Saviour, you know. Life isn’t neat, it’s dirty. I like to be reminded that fucked up stuff exists. It gives me…feelings. Doesn’t feeling stuff, even if it’s bad, make you remember that you’re…I don’t know, alive?”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“They called death the great equalizer, and it was – because in the rearview mirror, everyone was a hero.”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“We don't get to choose how much time we get in this life, but we do get to choose how we spend it.”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“Because I, Summer Johnson, Purveyor of Pragmatism, Lover of Logic, Ultimate Believer in the Rational, and Person Who Was Maybe Going To Die Soon, wanted to drown in someone.”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“Nothing matters, so everything matters. You can find joy in the nothingness, and silence in the chaos.”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“Everyone has issues. The key is finding someone whose issues mesh well with your issues.”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“Love is the most adult action anyone could ever carry out in this emotionally stunted world, and once you love, the rest will fall into place. It has to.”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“And if you ever feel yourself losing your way again,Cooper,and find that you just can't get your shit together,just reach out and love someone.Love is the most adult action anyone can ever carry out in this emotionally-stunted world,and once you love,the rest will fall into place.It has to.”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“And maybe these were the remains of the loved ones we lost – not the bodies their souls cast aside on the journey to the other side of things, but those wonderful little bits of them embedded into all of us like stardust floating in the Milky Way, every smile every laugh every tear every whisper every shout every bit of love they ever emitted, little slivers of them that sank into us and reminded us that they were here. They may have been gone, but as surely as the dead of winter gave way to the sun-soaked glory of spring every year, they were here once, and Goddamnit, they had lived.”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“Sometimes I just wonder,like,how could anyone else possibly be this lost,too?!Sometimes the words are so beautiful and true and unsettling I just want to hug my book and make sure nobody else in the world ever reads those words,because they are mine,Goddamnit,and they apply to me, and damn it if anyone else is going to steal my words and plug them into their lives!”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“your twenties are definitely a weird age. Children in adult bodies being forced to make adult decisions with their child brains.”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“Life is brief but love is long. Somewhere between anger and love is an ocean of eternal tranquility. It is there that I will see you again.”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“Let love destroy you – God knows life is going to, anyway.”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“the real measure of a human was what they did in the dark, when nobody was watching.”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“Comparison is the enemy of happiness, stop measuring yourself against the world.”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“Hi. My name is Cooper Nichols, and I am absolutely swimming in love with a girl named Summer Johnson.”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains