Summer Lessons Quotes

“Dad, are you in?” “In the car, yes. In this conversation? Not if you paid me.”
― Amy Lane, Summer Lessons

“He was starting to learn that you didn’t really know what it meant unless you felt the broken glass of worry that went with it.”
― Amy Lane, Summer Lessons

“but Mason finally realized that he’d met someone who saw life in the same terms Mason always had: how best to care for and feed that strange animal that had been born between his legs. “You’re so clever,” Terry said in admiration. Dane showed up right then with clothes, which Terry said thank you for before disappearing into the bathroom.”
― Amy Lane, Summer Lessons

“He jerked upright, moved his swollen ankle injudiciously, and let out a sound like Snoopy getting hit in the balls. “Alggghhh….”
― Amy Lane, Summer Lessons

“You should,” Jefferson said grandly. “It’s always a lot easier if you assume the world is wrong and you’re right. If you assume the other way around, we may as well pray for the earth to swallow us up because we’re not doing jackshit right!”
― Amy Lane, Summer Lessons

“Uh, yeah. Just two guys and their clubs… uh, swinging their sticks… uh whacking… erm, beating balls around the bush, I mean into the holes, the ones with the sticks in them, I mean….” Meltdown. Complete and total verbal meltdown. Mason closed his eyes and rested his forehead against the cool varnished wood of the counter, linking his fingers behind his neck.”
― Amy Lane, Summer Lessons

“They stood back the Friday after Christmas and looked it over, both of them sweaty and filthy and really, really glad that they could turn the water back on after the incident with the water main when they were replacing the toilet. “We did good,”
― Amy Lane, Summer Lessons

“that August in Sacramento tried to kill people with fire and suffocation.”
― Amy Lane, Summer Lessons

“She drank three giant glasses of Kool-Aid and vodka that night.”
― Amy Lane, Summer Lessons

“I hope so. Watch Dane. Mom’s going to go get some Kool-Aid for both of us.” Mason would figure out later that Mom’s Kool-Aid had a healthy dollop of vodka, but then, who could blame her at that point?”
― Amy Lane, Summer Lessons