Summer on the Bluffs Quotes

“not being in love is enough reason to split up. You don’t need a punishable offense to leave. The Lord knows that a truly loveless marriage is punishment enough.”
― Sunny Hostin, Summer on the Bluffs

“Every shut eye ain’t sleep and every goodbye ain’t gone.”
― Sunny Hostin, Summer on the Bluffs

“bad that her girls would likely never know the incomparable pleasure of opening up the mailbox and seeing a letter from a lover, the script as familiar as his hands.”
― Sunny Hostin, Summer on the Bluffs

“Joan Didion once wrote, “I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be.” Ama didn’t know it until the girls came into her life, but that was the glue that made family, at least her family, so powerful. We sometimes forget who we were. But the ones who have journeyed with us longest—our parents, our siblings—they remember. They always see not just who we are but all the selves we used to be.”
― Sunny Hostin, Summer on the Bluffs

“Her father told her it was less “studying” and more like “staring.” Hearing his voice in her head, she shyly looked away.”
― Sunny Hostin, Summer on the Bluffs

“She knew she could love more than one man. She knew this because she loved herself.”
― Sunny Hostin, Summer on the Bluffs

“I want to be the one who makes her smile like that. I want to spend my life with a woman capable of such joy.”
― Sunny Hostin, Summer on the Bluffs

“Even when his net worth crossed into the millions, he didn’t think of himself as “our kind of people.” He was Omar Tanner from Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, who had worked in a button factory and caught a few lucky breaks.”
― Sunny Hostin, Summer on the Bluffs

“Omar never lost the quiet humility of the boy who spent most of his twenties working in a button factory. He gained a reputation for being unpretentious, honest, and loyal.”
― Sunny Hostin, Summer on the Bluffs

“If you’ll allow me to give you some advice from the grave—not being in love is enough reason to split up. You don’t need a punishable offense to leave. The Lord knows that a truly loveless marriage is punishment enough.”
― Sunny Hostin, Summer on the Bluffs

“mercy for me. I, too, am better than the worst things”
― Sunny Hostin, Summer on the Bluffs

“Head knowledge is what people tell you is true. Heart knowledge is what you went out there in the big, bad world and learned for yourself—in the end, that’s the only unshakable truth any of us can ever have.”
― Sunny Hostin, Summer on the Bluffs

“I’m the kind of person who recycles materials but I also recycle emotions and feelings.”
― Sunny Hostin, Summer on the Bluffs

“We sometimes forget who we were. But the ones who have journeyed with us longest—our parents, our siblings—they remember. They always see not just who we are but all the selves we used to be.”
― Sunny Hostin, Summer on the Bluffs

“It always seemed like people were so caught up in the first—first Black astronaut, first Black president, first Black artist to exhibit at this museum or that—that they lost the glory of a life on a continuum.”
― Sunny Hostin, Summer on the Bluffs

“what she knows. Are you rolling with me or not?” Layla reached out and squeezed her friend’s shoulder.”
― Sunny Hostin, Summer on the Bluffs

“But out on the Atlantic, nothing but sun and sky before her, she felt the simple truth that would become the bedrock of her adult life: God is. Only a higher power could create a vista like this.”
― Sunny Hostin, Summer on the Bluffs

“You spend a quarter of your life or more looking for love. Then you spend the next twenty-five years figuring out how to love. Then you spend the remaining decades knowing just how little time you have left to love.”
― Sunny Hostin, Summer on the Bluffs