The Summer I Met Jack Quotes

“True love is total devotion. And sometimes you really have to give all of yourself, every last miserable piece.”
― Michelle Gable, The Summer I Met Jack

“Thank you for a magnificent year. I’ll remember each moment, every one of your smiles. Our time together was even sweeter, knowing that it wouldn’t last. But, as Ulysses says, ‘Every hour is saved.’” Alicia”
― Michelle Gable, The Summer I Met Jack

“Jack loved Hollywood but could never sit through a full reel. Fifteen, twenty minutes in, he took to pacing, tapping, scratching doodles on a pad. Jack Kennedy was never at rest.”
― Michelle Gable, The Summer I Met Jack

“When they weren't on the beach or sailing, Alicia and Jack were indoors, usually in the basement watching movies. Alicia missed so many important films during those frightening years.”
― Michelle Gable, The Summer I Met Jack

“But you give because you love, not because you expect something. If you’re lucky, you may be loved back, which is a wonderful thing, but there is no guarantee.”
― Michelle Gable, The Summer I Met Jack

“He can be so self-centered and has the grace of an untrained monkey. He’s also unreliable, and riddled with all manner of physical ailments. Also, I’d be remiss not to mention his efficient lovemaking. Too efficient, if you ask me.”
― Michelle Gable, The Summer I Met Jack

“Jews were dandy behind closed doors, as long as they were good in bed. Alicia felt like the world’s biggest fool.”
― Michelle Gable, The Summer I Met Jack

“Sure, the camp had a hospital, but did George ever wonder what happened to the doctors and nurses from Auschwitz, Treblinka, and the rest? The ones who performed ghastly experiments and brutally hastened the deaths of millions? They were repurposed, sent to DP camps to take care of those who survived, those they’d already tortured but not quite killed.”
― Michelle Gable, The Summer I Met Jack

“Even if they didn’t survive, you had a family once. Let’s talk about them. It hurts when you don’t, when the world beats on, but you’re stuck in the same place.”
― Michelle Gable, The Summer I Met Jack

“In that house, ignorance was an excuse for nothing, not even if you came to this country on a ship. After all, the family’s ancestors did, too, and they managed all of this.”
― Michelle Gable, The Summer I Met Jack