The Summer We Forgot Quotes

“We don’t choose people. Our hearts do. And they’re little saboteurs, always trying to get themselves broken.”
― Caroline George, The Summer We Forgot

“Nostalgia makes hallowed ground from mundane places.”
― Caroline George, The Summer We Forgot

“We’re not what people have done to us. We’re not what we’ve done to ourselves. We’re not the past. We’re the future. Not what’s been done. What we’ll do.”
― Caroline George, The Summer We Forgot

“In the pursuit of perfection, I forgot I was already enough.”
― Caroline George, The Summer We Forgot

“Knowing him was sweatpants and suntans and riding in his Jeep until the sky turned pink and purple. Growing up with him involved the best days, fishing off his dock as crickets chirped in the background, watching outdoor movies until we fell asleep on his old bedspread. It was love. It was young. And I feel it all still, burning in the places it shouldn’t be.
Even though he betrayed me.”
― Caroline George, The Summer We Forgot

“I could tell him I love him, but love seems too cliché, too overdone. I feel love, but I also feel jokes and front porch fights, pinky promises and friendship bracelets. I feel rolling my eyes when he made fun of my favorite songs, yelling at him when he paired up with Ashley Olson on our seventh-grade field day. I feel love, but I also feel our history, years and years of choosing him, the good and bad, highs and lows. Choosing to love. Not despite the flaws. Because of them. Because the mistakes prove we were together long enough to make them.
Because we knew each other at our worst and even then, no one else compared.”
― Caroline George, The Summer We Forgot

“Attraction, in my experience, isn’t based on whether someone is the sexiest or most intriguing. Attraction is looking at a girl—that girl—and knowing without a doubt she’s the home I’ve always wanted. Knowing I could spend every day looking at her and still believe she’s the loveliest, kindest, most wonderful person who ever breathed.”
― Caroline George, The Summer We Forgot

“Because the memories we leave with people matter just as much as the time spent with them”
― Caroline George, The Summer We Forgot

“They didn't save me from being alone. They saved me from thinking no one cared about my hurt.”
― Caroline George, The Summer We Forgot

“Funny how perfection can mean a million things. Tonight, it’s a boy and supermarket salads, the air tasting of salt and second chances, and a butterfly feeling in my chest.”
― Caroline George, The Summer We Forgot

“Dad tells me there’s no such thing as easy, no foolproof way to get through life unscathed. Every decision brings challenges. So, we don’t get easy. We only choose our hard. And if us is even on the table, believe me when I say you’re the easiest hard choice I’ll ever make.”
― Caroline George, The Summer We Forgot

“I want to kiss him better than the girls before me. I want to make forgetting me impossible so whenever he closes his eyes, he relives this moment over and over, hands tangled in hair, lips held captive. Remembering me until I am his memory.”
― Caroline George, The Summer We Forgot

“The people we welcome into our beginnings influence where we go”
― Caroline George, The Summer We Forgot

“Loving him was honest, sky blushed pink, hair stiff with salt as we raced down the beach. At fourteen, he said, “Hurting you won’t ever be my way of fixing me.” He meant it.”
― Caroline George, The Summer We Forgot

“High school is four years. Think about that. If you lived to a hundred, high school would only take up 4 percent of your life. No time at all. So, why does high school define a lot? Why do its memories weigh heavy?”
― Caroline George, The Summer We Forgot

“Funny thing was . . . I thought the people in my life were toxic until I realized I was the poison.”
― Caroline George, The Summer We Forgot

“The burn hurts, but once you shed it, you see the softer skin beneath, and it’s like the sun cleansed you. It didn’t give you a new skin. It showed what you had by erasing the old stuff.”
― Caroline George, The Summer We Forgot

“Secrets construct a bulwark within me. I am closet
bins and dark rooms and currents dragging me down and down. I want to escape myself. If I could speak truth without consequences, I’d invite everyone into my silence and beg them to rescue me.”
― Caroline George, The Summer We Forgot

“Because the memories we leave with people matter just as much as the time spent with them.”
― Caroline George, The Summer We Forgot

“We try to be perfect to meet other people's expectations. But making good choices--I think that's on us. We do good because we see value in good.”
― Caroline George, The Summer We Forgot

“The bad stuff won’t go away. Not that simple. We can’t erase our mistakes or trauma. We must look them in the eyes, remember, and live forward. That’s how it goes.”
― Caroline George, The Summer We Forgot

“She nestles against my side, tucked beneath my arm. I stare at her and don’t look away in case all this is a dream. I never want to wake up from her.”
― Caroline George, The Summer We Forgot

“You do everything for everyone, and you never expect anything in return. You’re just there for people even when they don’t show up for you.”
― Caroline George, The Summer We Forgot

“I feel love, but I also feel our history, years and years of choosing him, the good and bad, highs and lows. Choosing to love. Not despite the flaws. Because of them. Because the mistakes prove we were together long enough to make them. Because we knew each other at our worst and even then, no one else compared.”
― Caroline George, The Summer We Forgot

“Choosing to love. Not despite the flaws. Because of them. Because the mistakes prove we were together long enough to make them. Because we knew each other at our worst and even then, no one else compared.”
― Caroline George, The Summer We Forgot

“I feel love, but I also feel our history, years and years of choosing him, the good, the bad, highs and lows. Choosing to love. Not despite the flaws. Because of them. Because the mistakes prove we were together long enough to make them.”
― Caroline George, The Summer We Forgot

“Attraction in my experience, isn't based on whether someone is the sexiest or most intriguing. Attraction is looking at a girl - that girl - and knowing without a doubt she's the home I've always wanted. Knowing I could spend every day looking at her and still believe she's the loveliest, kindest, most wonderful person who ever breathed" -Morgan”
― Caroline George, The Summer We Forgot

“We all feel eloquence we can’t put into words.”
― Caroline George, The Summer We Forgot

“For as long as I’ve known him, even at our worst, he’s brought sunlight to rival my poor weather.”
― Caroline George, The Summer We Forgot