Summer Reading Quotes

“I felt a thrum in my chest. I wasn't sure if it was fear or excitement. I decided I would call it excitement until it became excitement.”
― Jenn McKinlay, Summer Reading

“As we drove along the familiar streets, I noticed the island and the town looked exactly the same. It felt strange, as if the shortest distance between two points wasn’t a straight line but rather like someone had folded the line and brought the two points together, making the distance in between them disappear.”
― Jenn McKinlay, Summer Reading

“How you connect to a story is your choice, whether it's from reading or listening or watching.”
― Jenn McKinlay, Summer Reading

“But you’ll eat what I cook and I’ll listen to your stories, so we’re really just sharing what we love with each other.”
― Jenn McKinlay, Summer Reading

“You know what I mean. How you connect to a story is your choice, whether it’s from reading or listening or watching.”
― Jenn McKinlay, Summer Reading

“A workaholic woman was on her way to Europe to find the three men she’d once loved to see if she could remember how to be happy and in love again. I was completely invested in her journey.”
― Jenn McKinlay, Summer Reading

“glanced away. Staring is rude, you know, and I imagined that ogling a librarian was even worse than that. Sort of like checking out a nun.”
― Jenn McKinlay, Summer Reading

“One thing I’d learned in my twenty-eight circles around the sun was that when a person said it was fine, it never ever was.”
― Jenn McKinlay, Summer Reading

“Dressed in a navy sweatshirt, khaki shorts, and black lace-up work boots,”
― Jenn McKinlay, Summer Reading

“loved seeing her, but like my grandparents, I was always okay when she left. She just sucked all of the oxygen out of the room, you know?”
― Jenn McKinlay, Summer Reading

“I'd always struggled with multitasking because my dyslexia disorganization would hit and I'd get sidetracked, and before I finished one project I was off on another and then another, forgetting the original task. This, of course, sent my anxiety into hyperdrive. Honestly, some days it was exhausting being in my own head.”
― Jenn McKinlay, Summer Reading