There Will Be Other Summers Quotes

“Asher thought the memories were trapped half a decade deep in her camera roll, never to be seen again, but now they’re trapped in music instead; the song sounds like a version of herself that she can’t return to anymore.”
― Tegan Anderson, There Will Be Other Summers

“Maybe there’s a treatment for why she doesn’t feel at home in her skin.
Maybe it’s just the way she was made.”
― Tegan Anderson, There Will Be Other Summers

“Maybe, if he spends the entire night with them wrapped in blankets and laughter, he’ll spill his guts as the sun comes up.”
― Tegan Anderson, There Will Be Other Summers

“Ryn tilts his head up to the rooftops and wishes he could see a sky full of stars one more time, or the aurora borealis Asher caught through her phone camera, even if she couldn’t see it with her functioning eyes. For now, he’ll stick to the streetlights and pretend they’re stars instead.”
― Tegan Anderson, There Will Be Other Summers

“Maybe it’s silly, creating a shrine to her friendship as if it’s a god, but maybe this friendship is the closest thing she has to something that feels holy.”
― Tegan Anderson, There Will Be Other Summers

“She needs this story to have a happy ending for the selfish reason of not wanting to cry on her birthday this year.
She imagines she will, anyway.”
― Tegan Anderson, There Will Be Other Summers

“The therapist started talking about grief and clinical depression and brain waves until Asher latched onto the phrase ‘theta waves’ and went home to research it herself, and that’s how she learned that grieving people’s waking brains seem to still be in a state of deep unconsciousness and, really, she’s just sleepwalking through life.
But at least she’s trying.
At least she thinks she is.”
― Tegan Anderson, There Will Be Other Summers