That Summer Quotes
"Picture each worry like a gift. Put them in order, from the mildest to the most intense. Imagine yourself picking up each one and wrapping it with care. Picture yourself placing the gift under a tree, and then walking away."
"Breathe in, two, three, four. Hold, two, three, four. Breathe out."
"She’s tried it along with all the others. She had imagined her worries like leaves, floating down a stream; she pictured them like clouds, drifting past in the sky; like cars, zipping by on the highway."
"I know she doesn’t really hate me. She’s trying to be independent. It’s what she’s supposed to do."
"Maybe there are no truly safe places for girls and women."
"I have everything I want. A stable marriage—or maybe just a marriage that would stay stable as long as she didn’t ask questions."
"Teenage girls. They get emotional. As I’m sure you know."
"Your body is a wonderland! And if you don’t know how to have an orgasm on your own, you aren’t going to be able to share that with your partners."
"Nothing is too good for my little girl."
"Daisy smiled and sat, congratulating herself on her guesswork."
"Nuts are always better when you heat them up."
"I always loved cooking. And my mom didn’t."
"I think cooking saved me. It was the only thing that made me happy."
"I don’t know, maybe the Cape is the last place you’d ever want to be."
"People care for you. They want to help. You just have to let them."
"I felt like a spark of something unfamiliar and faint, something I recognized as hope."
Tell you what," said the guy. "Call Dr. Levy to make sure I’m supposed to be here. Once you tell me it’s okay, I’ll take down your screens and put up your storm windows.
"You buy a pack of the cheapest hot dogs you can find, cut ’em into slices, then nuke the slices in the microwave for ten minutes. My dad taught me to always carry them around."
"You don’t want to hear about my childhood?"
"I’m sure he is. It’s just, I’m not looking for anything right now."
"I hope you told him that your affections can’t be bought."
"They say that there’s dog people and cat people, and I’m a dog person. Grew up with a golden retriever named Monty."
"The morning after she’d met the other Diana, Daisy slept through the night and woke up after seven o’clock, well-rested for the first time in what felt like months."
"If he likes you, though. That matters. Gotta go,"
"I don’t think it’s something girls lie about."
"You're a natural," Daisy said, and Diana scoffed, looking pleased.
"It's not that I was actually worried the mice were going to contaminate our food. It's more of the principle of the thing."
"Don’t ever buy cooking wine at the supermarket. Never, ever cook with a wine you wouldn’t drink."
Everyone deserves to be happy," he said. "Maybe you, most of all.
"I just want to stay here, in my house, with my dog, and work my job, and come home at night, and go to sleep to the sound of the ocean," she said. "And not hurt anyone."
"It’s just that I feel so stupid!" she said, in a loud, ragged voice.
"It’s your life. You get to decide. How do you want it to be?"
"I don’t know what’s fair. These guys… what they took… I mean, how do I ever get that back?"
"I don’t want you to lose weight," she said.
"I love you so much. Please say yes," he whispered.
I am seeing someone," he said. "His name is Jesse. We’ve been dating for almost a year.
"I think that all the boys ended up knowing each other to some degree."
No," Jesse had said, his voice not unkind, but very firm, "I don’t think you can.
"I had a boyfriend once who was a fisherman. He’d leave his worms in my fridge, in a mayonnaise jar with holes punched in the top."
"That’s great," Diana said. Her tone seemed slightly cool.
I promise," Daisy said. "It’s better than what they sell in stores, and less expensive, and I promise, very simple to make.
How about after that?" she asked Daisy. "What happens in Philadelphia in the summer?
"Then you shouldn’t have volunteered me to host, Daisy thought."
"She just wasn’t that kind of woman. She lacked that level of ambition."
"He wants me to pretend to be someone I’m not."
"It’s fine," said Mireille. She gave him a weak smile and went back to the sink.
"I guess anyone’s capable of anything, right? That’s our lesson for this evening."
"I’m happy here. I’m very happy. I’m just saying…"
"No trouble at all," Diana said. "And I’d love to see Beatrice again."
"You'd lose your head if it weren't attached, wouldn't you?"
"I'm going to keep you safe, no matter what."
"Every day of my life, I have tried to be a better man than I was that night."
"We don’t know anything about how this young man was brought up."
"I’ve listened to you without thinking for too long."
"I was a different person. Things were hard for me."
"I promise you, I tried to tell you about Hal."
"She must have passed out, and when I opened my eyes there was one boy on top of me, and one boy holding me down, and another boy watching."
"Things are changing if there are people brave enough to come forward."
"I wasn’t expecting to like you so much. Or Beatrice."
"For a moment, Daisy was sure she must have heard incorrectly. 'A terrible thing to say?' she repeated. 'How about a terrible thing to do?'"
"I’m not much of an adult, I think. I never finished college, and I barely have any friends."
I want a divorce," she shouted, feeling hot, salty tears join the rain on her face. "I want you gone when I get home. I want you to stay away from Beatrice. I never want to see you again.
You controlled me," Daisy said. "Being your wife meant that I couldn’t have a real business, and I barely had friends. You didn’t ever let me go anywhere, or see anyone, or do anything.
"We’re done, you and I," and waited until she saw that knowledge land in his eyes, before she turned and walked away with the rain scouring her skin, wishing only for a door to close, quietly but firmly, behind her.