The Summer List Quotes

“My childhood home in Coeur-de-Lune was now a vacation rental, managed by efficient strangers. I'd never gone back. But my mother kept a buzzing gossip line into her church women from town, and gave me sporadic updates on Casey's life.

She always brought Casey up when I was lulled into complacency. When we'd had a surprisingly peaceful afternoon together. When we were outside on her balcony, or sharing a piece of her peach pie like other mothers and daughters did.

Only then would she jab, a master fencer going for the unprotected sliver of my heart.”
― Amy Mason Doan, The Summer List

“Curdilune. Cur is heart in French, he’d explained. Lune is moon. So it means Heart of the Moon.”
― Amy Mason Doan, The Summer List

“Love is Blue”
― Amy Mason Doan, The Summer List

“Who’s Tucker?” “Not who,” I said. “Where. A little town near where we grew up.”
― Amy Mason Doan, The Summer List

“From the water it looked like a boat, with rows of small, high windows—so much like portholes—and a long, skinny dock—pirate's gangplank—to complete the effect. When the place started falling apart in the '70s, some grumbly neighbor called it The Shipwreck, and the name had stuck.

It was a love-it-or-hate-it house, and the Shepherd women had loved it.

So had I.”
― Amy Mason Doan, The Summer List