A Summer Fling Quotes

“I know we can only be friends, but I’m wishing there was a parallel universe somewhere out there and in it. . . you’re free.”
― Milly Johnson, A Summer Fling

“She couldn’t live with this tearing agony in her heart any longer; it was killing her. In fact, she wished it would kill her and there would be an end to it, because she knew she couldn’t recover from it. There was nothing to live for: she couldn’t sleep, couldn’t eat, couldn’t concentrate, she couldn’t find any joy or hope in anything.”
― Milly Johnson, A Summer Fling

“When a chance at happiness comes, grab onto it with both hands.”
― Milly Johnson, A Summer Fling

“Go and be loved and enjoy every minute of it.”
― Milly Johnson, A Summer Fling

“We’d be a lot wiser if we could visit our past selves.”
― Milly Johnson, A Summer Fling

“She had been pushed and shoved and cowed and controlled by them all because she wanted their love and their acceptance, enough to lie down like a sacrificial lamb. All she had really earned was their resentment for being such a walkover.”
― Milly Johnson, A Summer Fling

“You can do anything when you’re in love. Nothing fazes you. Be brave and let love make you strong.”
― Milly Johnson, A Summer Fling

“They dreamed of lives they weren’t brave enough to chase.”
― Milly Johnson, A Summer Fling

“I was acclimatized after so long. I just stayed; the desire to up and go occasionally visited but I never had the guts to see it through.”
― Milly Johnson, A Summer Fling

“It felt so cathartic to talk about things she had kept bottled up inside her for so long.”
― Milly Johnson, A Summer Fling

“I was just thinking about what you’ve been through. No one could ever tell by looking at you. You’re so remarkably. . . together. I don’t know how you do it.”
― Milly Johnson, A Summer Fling

“I’ve always felt that we are separate from the rest of the world, as if we don’t fit in and shouldn’t try.”
― Milly Johnson, A Summer Fling

“It began to feel good, to feel right, to let people to be close to her and know they weren’t judging her or winning her over so they could hurt her.”
― Milly Johnson, A Summer Fling

“Maybe the only way we can get peace is to fight for it.”
― Milly Johnson, A Summer Fling

“When I was twenty, I looked back at my teens and wished I was still at school. When I was thirty, I wished I had my totally fresh twenty-year old skin and the stomach that snapped back to flat when I’d lost some weight. And now I’m forty, I’m looking back at my thirties and wishing I’d just appreciated what I had then. I was always looking back and regretting things. I was quite pretty when I was a teenager, but I didn’t realize it at the time and I only wish I had.”
― Milly Johnson, A Summer Fling

“Are you sure you want him? Wouldn’t you prefer something with a spine and a brain?”
― Milly Johnson, A Summer Fling

“Once upon a time she had been wrong in cutting herself off from everyone and floating out into a sea of loneliness. She had been lucky, at least, in being pulled back to shore by wonderful people who cared for her.”
― Milly Johnson, A Summer Fling

“She remembered the warmth in their eyes—not pity, but support. There was a difference.”
― Milly Johnson, A Summer Fling

“Her dignity was long gone. She was just a mess of tangled up feelings.”
― Milly Johnson, A Summer Fling

“She knew he wasn’t over the hurt, however much he pretended to be.”
― Milly Johnson, A Summer Fling

“She had a look of a woman sadly neglected. By herself more than anyone.”
― Milly Johnson, A Summer Fling

“The girl doesn’t have a lot of self-confidence. Funny how it was always the pretty, capable ones who didn’t.”
― Milly Johnson, A Summer Fling

“Every woman should have her moment of flowering. Everyone should have days to look back on when they could say, ‘I was at my most beautiful then.”
― Milly Johnson, A Summer Fling

“There was nothing to look forward to but more crap.”
― Milly Johnson, A Summer Fling

“Every day she discovered another record depth to plunge to: another abyss for her spirits to sink down into.”
― Milly Johnson, A Summer Fling

“She was a natural wallflower, most comfortable against the sidelines.”
― Milly Johnson, A Summer Fling

“they were destined to loll around my waist.”
― Milly Johnson, A Summer Fling