“That Summer” by Sarah Dessen - Quodid

The first boy is always the hardest to get over. It's just the way the world works.

—Sarah Dessen in That Summer

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He doesn't love me. He might still love me as I was at fifteen, when I didn't know any better. When I trusted everyone. I'm not that person anymore.

—Sarah Dessen in That Summer

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And I knew I would remember this night, in the same misty way I'd remembered all the good things, as a time when things were as perfect as they could be.

—Sarah Dessen in That Summer

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I thought it must be fate that I kept bumping into him, some strange sign that he was meant to come back into my life and fix or change something, a voice from the past arriving in the present with the answers to everything.

—Sarah Dessen in That Summer

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I was tired of hanging on, taking the torn pieces to make something whole with them.

—Sarah Dessen in That Summer

It was just perfect, just right all at once.

—Sarah Dessen in That Summer

I was going to let it happen, let the tears come and the sobs rise up from my chest. I imagined crying until I was exhausted, dry, finally letting it all go.

—Sarah Dessen in That Summer

One summer and one boy, and suddenly things weren't the same.

—Sarah Dessen in That Summer

I wondered if the summer had changed me, if with one look the world could see a difference.

—Sarah Dessen in That Summer

Sometimes things don't turn out the way you want them to. Sometimes the people you choose to believe are wrong.

—Sarah Dessen in That Summer

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About Sarah Dessen

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Sarah Dessen (born June 6, 1970) is an American novelist known for her contributions to young adult fiction. Her first book, That Summer, was published in 1996, and has since published more than a dozen other novels and novellas. In 2017, Dessen won the Margaret Edwards Award for some of her work, and two of her books were adapted into the 2003 film How to Deal.

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