Same Time Next Summer Quotes

“Sometimes you have to walk away from all the things you don’t want to make room for the future.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Same Time Next Summer

“If you’ve loved someone your whole life, it kind of makes sense that you’d love them forever.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Same Time Next Summer

“it’s an exploration of whether the safety that comes with loving someone at arm’s length is worth giving up the joy of loving someone with your whole heart.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Same Time Next Summer

“You’re the cake that looks normal until people dig in and find out it’s spectacular. You’re the chocolate fucking cake, Sam, and you won’t even choose it.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Same Time Next Summer

“You’re the most important person that’s ever been in my life, and you’re not even the most important person in your own.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Same Time Next Summer

“Putting a person back together isn’t easy, but if you’re smart about it you can reassemble yourself in a totally different, better way.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Same Time Next Summer

“Creating art is about being vulnerable enough to invite people to spend time in your skin.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Same Time Next Summer

“We are all great survivors, and we have endless ways that we adapt to protect ourselves. There’s a balance between being safe and truly living, and it’s our job to determine how much risk our hearts can take and how deeply we are willing to love. This is a story about returning to your truest, bravest self. And it’s an exploration of whether the safety that comes with loving someone at arm’s length is worth giving up the joy of loving someone with your whole heart.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Same Time Next Summer

“You cheat because you think it’s going to make you someone else, that it’s going to save you from your own damn misery. And that’s the lie you’re telling yourself. I guess that’s the point, Sam. Another person is not going to turn you into anything but who you already are. Make sure you’re not trying to turn yourself into someone else for Jack.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Same Time Next Summer

“Sometimes you have to walk away from all the things you don’t want to make room for the future. Blank canvas.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Same Time Next Summer

“A normal person, he thought many times after, would have placed a finger on his own lips to convey the same message. But he’d chosen to touch hers. It wasn’t much, but it was the beginning of everything.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Same Time Next Summer

“What did you think I was going to grow up and write songs about? I’ve loved you my whole life.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Same Time Next Summer

“You are addicted to the dopamine reaction you feel when you get a hit of him. This is typical of a user who became hooked on a substance during a critical time of development, and now that addiction is woven into your nervous system. You’re well into your detox, and I am recommending no contact, which should be easy.” Dr. Judy laughed at that last comment, which stung.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Same Time Next Summer

“As I’ve gotten older, I’ve learned that it’s totally possible to love someone from a safe distance.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Same Time Next Summer

“My mom has no ego about her ideas or her art. She creates for herself, for the delight she feels in seeing something in a certain way or hearing the rhythm of the right words strung together.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Same Time Next Summer

“That there’s nothing more exciting in life than that pull toward another person.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Same Time Next Summer

“He understood that this should have been embarrassing, but he loved being her Wyatt.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Same Time Next Summer

“Songs that felt like Wyatt: “Iris” by Goo Goo Dolls “A Murder of One” by Counting Crows “Take It Easy on Me” by Little River Band “Hold You in My Arms” by Ray LaMontagne “Wild Horses” by The Rolling Stones “Thinking Out Loud” by Ed Sheeran “Yellow” by Coldplay Songs that took me to the beach: “Watermelon Sugar” by Harry Styles “Sunshine on My Shoulders” by John Denver “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” by The Beach Boys Songs to make Sam cry: “Who Knew” by Pink “Wrecking Ball” by Miley Cyrus “1 Step Forward, 3 Steps Back” by Olivia Rodrigo “So Far Away” by Carole King “Romeo and Juliet” by Dire Straits “Stay” by Rihanna “Sam, I Am” by Missy McGee”
― Annabel Monaghan, Same Time Next Summer

“It’s like I went out into the world and grew up, and he’s still right here. Right where I left him.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Same Time Next Summer

“how to access that part of your brain that is uniquely you and then use it to create something that people can see? Creating art is about being vulnerable enough to invite people to spend time in your skin. I can’t think of a better skill to teach.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Same Time Next Summer

“She takes his face in her hands as she says this, and I see him wince. Jack has a thing about foreign oils (on my mom I’m guessing Coppertone and canola) mixing with his Serum Hydrée.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Same Time Next Summer

“You're the most important person that's never been in my life and you're not even the most important person in your own.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Same Time Next Summer

“You're the cake that looks normal until people dig in and find out its spectacular. You're the chocolate fucking cake, Sam and you won't even choose it.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Same Time Next Summer

“Granny Annie’s face is in rapture as it’s hit by the salt air.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Same Time Next Summer

“He was wearing a Chicago Cubs T-shirt that had been washed the exact number of times it took to make it rest perfectly over the outline of his chest.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Same Time Next Summer

“It's like when you've been covering up an ugly scar but also sort of want to show it to people so they know what you've been through.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Same Time Next Summer

“It’s a particular level of intimacy, reading a book with another person.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Same Time Next Summer

“He felt incapable of self regulation, like if he opened up about how he was feeling it would rush out and drown them both.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Same Time Next Summer

“We hung the final version of my drawing on a rusty nail on the treehouse wall, back before we knew how easily precious things could disintegrate in the salt air.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Same Time Next Summer

“Sometimes we buy two copies and read the same book at the same time. It’s a particular level of intimacy, reading a book with another person.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Same Time Next Summer