Summer and July Quotes

“And next summer—if I have anything to say about it—we’ll get back together and do it again.”
― Paul Mosier, Summer and July: A Bank Street Best Book about Friendship, Courage, and Finding Strength for Children

“She isn’t saying anything, she can’t say anything, because there are no words, not in this moment. There is a whole vocabulary and a catalog of song for it, for this feeling, for these feelings, for catching a wave and for knowing this girl, for loving this girl, but not in this moment. Instead she drops her board and puts her arms around me, and her head into my shoulder, and I put my arms around her and do the same.”
― Paul Mosier, Summer and July: A Bank Street Best Book about Friendship, Courage, and Finding Strength for Children

“Are you ready?” she asks. “Heck yeah,”
― Paul Mosier, Summer and July: A Bank Street Best Book about Friendship, Courage, and Finding Strength for Children

“When we ride, we ride together.”
― Paul Mosier, Summer and July: A Bank Street Best Book about Friendship, Courage, and Finding Strength for Children

“Then I reach down to her, offering my hand. “Take it.”
― Paul Mosier, Summer and July: A Bank Street Best Book about Friendship, Courage, and Finding Strength for Children

“Showing you my world reminded me how much I love it.”
― Paul Mosier, Summer and July: A Bank Street Best Book about Friendship, Courage, and Finding Strength for Children

“Without you I could never have done it,” she says. “Without you at my side these past few weeks, I would never have been brave enough to admit to myself what was coming for Hank. I never could have broken the rules of Hank’s room. I never could have said a proper good-bye. And I never could have brought him to the beach at dawn patrol.” I can feel her eyes on me, but I can’t look back.”
― Paul Mosier, Summer and July: A Bank Street Best Book about Friendship, Courage, and Finding Strength for Children

“Seeing her laugh is way better than making her cry.”
― Paul Mosier, Summer and July: A Bank Street Best Book about Friendship, Courage, and Finding Strength for Children

“while the list is getting longer, I’m getting stronger.”
― Paul Mosier, Summer and July: A Bank Street Best Book about Friendship, Courage, and Finding Strength for Children

“I think of how I’ll be an old lady remembering the day I got splashed by dolphins with Summer, and I find myself wondering whether she will be someone I still know, or just a memory like a shoebox full of seashells.”
― Paul Mosier, Summer and July