Summer Rental Quotes
"It was not an auspicious beginning for a vacation, let alone for a new life."
"What do you want now, lady? A kidney? My spleen maybe?"
"I don’t need a chart to tell me to hang up a wet towel."
"Who cares? They just put those signs up so you’ll have to buy their five-dollar Cokes and seven-dollar tubs of popcorn. Nobody pays any attention to those signs."
"Never mind her, Ellis. I’ll carry the Cokes and Milk Duds in my purse."
"You’re half Italian, Dorie pointed out. You were born with a base coat."
"But it was his house, damn it. He was the landlord."
"You’re lookin’ good, Frank. Bug busting must agree with you."
"I’m your own personal ATM, he told her more than once."
"I’m running away from home, Maryn said glibly, with a toss of her head. Man troubles."
"I knew it! Julia cackled. Ellis and Mikey Cavanaugh, gettin’ jiggy at my fifteenth-birthday party."
"My grandmother never wanted to modernize anything. Wanted to leave things like they were when she was a little girl."
"Stephen says he loves me, and I believe him, I really do. But he’s not in love with me."
"I’m so sorry, Dorie, Ellis said, pressing her hand to her own chest. It’s not funny, not really."
"You’re the one who’s got to carry this baby for nine months, along with everything else, and you’re worried about poor old Stephen having too much responsibility."
"I want to scream and rant and rave and kick him in the nuts and grab him and shake the crap out of him and ask him why on earth he ever married me if he thought there was even a remote possibility he was gay."
"I’m a mess. Guess I’ll run upstairs and change my shorts while I’m at it. I don’t want you guys to start calling me Pee-Pants Dorie."
"Were they for what her best friend was facing, or were they, selfishly, for herself—unmarried and still childless at thirty-five, a state she’d never envisioned for herself?"
"But as a wife and mother, Dr. Dunaway was, to Ellis’s way of thinking, a big dud."
"The only thing I know for sure now is that nothing is for sure."
"It’s not what you’re thinking," Julia said. "When I missed my first period, I didn’t think anything of it. But when I skipped my second one, I knew."
"I’m thirty-five and haven’t lived at home in fifteen years."
"I’ve picked some winners, but seems like I’ve picked more dogs lately."
"I’ve been through a lot together. You know, all that teenage drama, and then college, and family stuff."
"I think he likes you," Julia said. "I can read the future. And I definitely see a man in your future, Miss Ellis Sullivan."
"I’m thirty-four, Julia. And I haven’t really dated in a while."
"Turns out my mother was right," Julia agreed. "I really was a late bloomer."
"I’d rather die alone, the crazy lady living in a double-wide down by the river, with forty-seven cats and a houseful of hoarded tin cans and toilet paper, than try that again."
"I’ve spent years trying to forget all this stuff. And now you want me to dredge up all the dirt again."
"Isn’t it enough that I admit I made a major mistake?"
"You can stay," Julia said, reaching over and patting her friend’s hand.
"I’m no snob," Julia said. "I wouldn’t care if he really was just a bartender."
"A summer fling! Ellis Sullivan was having herself a summer fling."
"The baby books said it was hormonal, but she didn’t care."
"If you don’t mind, I’ll take the car and go on back to the house."
"I was a little rocky at first, but the nausea’s finally subsided and I’m feeling great now."
"I don’t know that it’s not like that. How would I?"
"I think maybe I twisted it," Madison grimaced.
"I really thought this guy might be it, you know?"
"If she really did love me, and that I loved him, and that we will love this baby I’m carrying."
"Served him right, Ellis tried to tell herself."
"Thank God! She almost felt like kissing the paint-spattered red trash barrel."
"Sometimes, a good greasy cheeseburger and fries were the only antidote to misery."
"You have to decide if you want to deal with a whole gender of people who are intrinsically flawed."
"I have been doing without men for years. A decade, actually."
"You get to be a mom. That's more important than a house, or a job, or money."
"I’m terrified. I don’t know if I can do this all by myself."
"Relax, he’ll love the place. Hell, I love it, now that we’ve got it all pimped out like this."
"Any idiot could do what I did. Clean windows, waxed floors, some potted geraniums and ferns on the porch..."
"I never thought this house could look so good."
"It's only for five more days. Four really, because our rental agreement clearly states that checkout time for Ebbtide is 10 A.M. Saturday."
"I wish I could. I've thought about it all week."
"You want to build a house right next to the house you already own?"
"It's time for me to figure out what I'm going to do with the rest of my life."
"I'd love to have seen the look on Kendra's face when she found out she wasn’t going to get the chance to kick your white-trash ass to the curb."
"But this year, thirty-six doesn’t seem so ancient."
"I've been at the computer most of the morning, deliberately avoiding Ebbtide."
"I'm not ready for a relationship. To commit."
"Our last full day at the beach, and she manages to screw it up for all of us."
"Nobody was ever more ready for a relationship than Ellis."
"She buried herself in work at that damned bank, never took a vacation."
"I was just a thing to you. Nothing more, nothing less."
"You don’t really want to have a baby, Maryn."
"You’re too self-involved to be a good mother."
"It hurts my feelings that you’re not wearing your engagement ring."
"I came because you texted me and asked me to."
"What are you doing here? Why did you come out here tonight?"
"I came because you said if I loved you, I would come."
"Because they know I'm a loser, that I have no life outside my job."
"They probably have this stupid idea that we're in love."
"It's not stupid for them to send you fake texts from my phone to lure you down here?"
"I'm saying you've figured out how you want to live your life, and you're doing that."
"And me dragging you off to Seattle, making you wear a tie..."
"I wouldn’t mind seeing you in a loincloth, now that you mention it."
"I have a point to make. And that point is, it doesn’t matter how long you’ve known somebody."
"But it’s just you and me. That’s the way it’s always been."