Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

"Sometimes it’s like people are a million times more beautiful to you in your mind. It’s like you see them through a special lens — but maybe if it’s how you see them,that’s how they really are."

"I could survive for months, years, on a crush."

"I wished I could stay forever, in this moment. Like in one of those plastic snowballs, one little moment frozen in time."

"He smiled at me, and that smile -- he just gets in. His smile did it every time."

"I'd never heard of them, but at that moment, it was the best song I'd ever heard. I went out and bought Ten and listened to it on repeat. When I listened to track five, "Black," it was like I was there, in that moment all over again. After the summer was over, when I got back home, I went to the music store and bought the sheet music and learned to play it on the piano. I thought one day I could accompany Conrad and we could be, like, a band."

"She'd known me my whole life. It's hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing a part of yourself."

"My mother was good at that, making people feel normal. Safe. Like as long as she was there, nothing truly bad could happen."

"Susannah continued. "If and when I go off slow dancing in the ever after, I don't want to look like I've been stuck in a hospital room my whole life. I at least want to be tan."

"It’s hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away a part of yourself."

"Sometimes it’s like people are a million times more beautiful to you in your mind. It’s like you see them through a special lens — but maybe if it’s how you see them,that’s how they really are. It’s like the whole tree falling in the forest thing."

"Would you rather live one perfect day over and over or live your life with no perfect days but just decent ones?"

"It's the imperfections that make things beautiful"

"Moments, when lost, can't be found again. They're just gone."