The Summer of Skinny Dipping
Amanda Howells
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The surest way to hurt yourself is to give up on love, just because it didn’t work out the first time.”
“I’m a realist,” I replied stubbornly, “not a romantic. Romantics are always disappointed.” “Maybe they’re disappointed because they’re always surrounded by realists.” Simon countered.”
“If you stay on the sidelines of the here and now then your future will only ever be a pale version of a dream you never had the courage to experience.”
“But it was not the note that counted so much as the writing of it. Just because it wouldn’t last forever out there didn’t mean it hadn’t existed. that’s why I was there. I was there for a moment. And because of a string of beautiful moments spent at that very same place, moments I would keep inside me wherever I went.”
“Putting yourself at risk...that was the only path to anything meaningful. The biggest risk was in not taking a risk.”
“If you kept your light inside of yourself too long, it might burn out altogether.”
“You can only take steps toward the future you want. It's not guaranteed to be there. This is why you have to live inside each beautiful or terrible thing as it happens to you because the present may be all you've got. And if there's more ahead then the present is where you can really shape your future.”
“If you don't have any dreams then they won't come true.”
“They're on a crash course to nowhere. But you, my lady friend, you're a black hole. You've sucked me in, and now there's no escape...”
“You think you know everything that's happening around you. But you can't always see clearly when your standing right there in the picture.”
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Book Keywords:
lost, present, love, future, quitting, hurt
