The Summer We Fell Quotes

“I haven’t loved many things in this world … but I have loved you from the minute I saw you, and whether it’s today or seventy years from now, I’ll love you with my dying breath.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, The Summer We Fell

“People talk about love like it’s peaceful, but it isn’t, at all. It’s turbulent and anxious. It’s euphoria and despair.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, The Summer We Fell

“Don’t try to tell a man who’s waited ten years for you that you love him more.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, The Summer We Fell

“You’re something wild and magnificent, and he has no idea how to take care of you, so he spends all his time making sure your cage is secure because he has no idea what else to do. And that’s why this kills me, Juliet. Because I think I do know how to take care of you, and I want to take his place so bad that it fucking hurts to look at you sometimes.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, The Summer We Fell

“I don’t care how much time it took, as long as you’re mine in the end. I told you I’d wait forever.”, but I’m glad I didn’t have to.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, The Summer We Fell

“I know better than anyone alive that not everyone gets a happy ending. But at least I’m not handing mine away. At least I’m willing to fight for it.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, The Summer We Fell

“Sometimes it’s simply a relief to be with a guy who treats you like the piece of shit you already know you are. It’s a relief not to have to pretend otherwise.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, The Summer We Fell

“Juliet, I’ll wait for you forever. But if you leave it up to other people, that’s exactly how long it will take.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, The Summer We Fell

“I thought I was going to die, and the only thing that mattered, the only thing I wanted, was you,” he says against my mouth. “You were all I fucking thought about.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, The Summer We Fell

“I believed I loved him, I really did. And I guess I do love him, but not in the right way. I love him like a brother or a best friend. I just didn’t know, until Luke, that I was supposed to feel more.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, The Summer We Fell

“This thing with us has been there since the beginning, and it’s never going away. You know that.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, The Summer We Fell

“You look like something rare and wild,” he whispers, pushing the hair back from my cheek. My breath catches at the feel of his fingers on my skin. “Something they locked up in a cage. And I think you were so relieved to find a safe place to land you didn’t even realize it happened. I thought I could save you if I came here this summer, but even if someone opens the cage, you’ve got to be willing to fly away, too, Jules.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, The Summer We Fell

“I’m so fucking mad at you right now,” he says, his hand fisting my hair to jerk my head up to his, “and I’ve also never loved you more.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, The Summer We Fell

“If you even breathe in her vicinity again, I’ll fucking kill you and I won’t think twice. I’ll beat you until you can’t fight back, then I’ll hold you under water until you’ve taken your last breath. That’s a promise.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, The Summer We Fell

“Go fuck yourself,” I reply under my breath. His eyes lighten and his mouth twitches. “There she is,” he says, only for me to hear. “I knew she was in there somewhere.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, The Summer We Fell

“Choose me, Juliet,” he whispers. “Please fucking choose me.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, The Summer We Fell

“That sticks and stones saying is bullshit. Words are the worst kind of pain because they’re the kind that never fucking leave.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, The Summer We Fell

“People are the thing that will grind your trust down to nothing. But they’re also how you to discover a small seed of something inside yourself again, something soft and hopeful and full of love, something that will grow.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, The Summer We Fell

“I’ll wait for you forever. But if you leave it up to other people, that’s exactly how long it will take.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, The Summer We Fell

“Humans are so much more fragile than they seem, and you don’t know it until it’s too late.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, The Summer We Fell

“...I feel like that bird Luke once told me about. Too large for its cage, its wings unable to stretch - flapping frantically until it finally stopped trying. Except I'm wiser than that bird in one way. I know without even trying that I'm never getting out of the cage.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, The Summer We Fell

“He was always going to forgive me. I can be flawed, I can do terrible things, and his love for me will always be bigger than that.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, The Summer We Fell

“I thought I could save you if I came here this summer, but even if someone opens the cage, you’ve got to be willing to fly away, too, Jules.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, The Summer We Fell

“Luke will be there. And he’ll still feel like the tide, sucking you out to sea.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, The Summer We Fell

“When we left, there was a man huddled outside the restaurant asking for help. Danny wanted to give him our food, so we did.” She stops again, her hands gripping the podium so hard they’re nearly bloodless. “Our stomachs were growling later, and his father said he hoped Danny had learned a lesson from it. And Danny said…Danny said, ‘I can do a bad thing and still do good things.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, The Summer We Fell

“Luke is my sun, my moon, my tide, and I’m tired of fighting his pull.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, The Summer We Fell

“He’s the master of sucking the life out of my tiny accomplishments, of making sure my wings stay clipped, without ever appearing to have done it. I’m not sure how I’m just seeing this now.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, The Summer We Fell

“People talk about love like it’s peaceful, but it isn’t, at all. It’s turbulent and anxious.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, The Summer We Fell

“I can be flawed, I can do terrible things, and his love for me will always be bigger than that.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, The Summer We Fell

“Fuck it,” he says, reaching me in five long strides before grabbing my face and kissing me hard.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, The Summer We Fell