The Summer I Turned Pretty Book Series

Quotes from “The Summer I Turned Pretty” Trilogy By Jenny Han

Ah, summertime. Long, lazy days, carefree vibes, and the thrill of new possibilities hanging heavy in the air. For Belly Conklin in Jenny Han’s captivating novel “The Summer I Turned Pretty” these summer sensations are amplified tenfold. But it’s not just the beachy backdrop that makes this coming-of-age story so relatable.

Buckle up for a journey of self-discovery, blossoming emotions, and the heartache that comes with growing up. Prepare to be swept away by The Summer I Turned Pretty quotes that perfectly capture the messy beauty of adolescence.

Quotes from The Summer I Turned Pretty

Dive into the heartwarming yet heartbreaking world of Jenny Han’s The Summer I Turned Pretty. Belly Conklin, on the cusp of sixteen, embarks on her annual summer trip to Cousins Beach with her mom and brother. This summer, however, feels different. Belly is no longer a little girl tagging along with her mom’s best friend, Susannah, and her sons, Conrad and Jeremiah.

As she grapples with newfound feelings and the complexities of growing up, the novel offers relatable quotes that capture the essence of first love, friendship, and the bittersweet pangs of nostalgia.

Will Belly choose the brooding Conrad, whose “quiet intensity” both scares and excites her or will she fall for the easygoing Jeremiah, with his “smile that could light up a room”?

The Summer I Turned Pretty promises a coming-of-age story rich with emotional depth, making you yearn for your own perfect summer romance. Enjoy reading these quotes from the Summer I Turned Pretty:

It was a summer I would never, ever forget. It was the summer everything began. It was the summer I turned pretty. Because for the first time, I felt it. Pretty, I mean. Every summer up to this one, I believed it’d be different. Life would be different. And that summer, it finally was.
- Jenny Han
Moments, when lost, can't be found again. They're just gone.
- Jenny Han
It's the imperfections that make things beautiful.
- Jenny Han
In the dark you can feel really close to a person. You can say whatever you want.
- Jenny Han
Would you rather live one perfect day over and over or live your life with no perfect days but just decent ones?
- Jenny Han
When you walk on the beach at night, you can say things you can't say in real life.
- Jenny Han
Victory is a thousand times sweeter when you're the underdog.
- Jenny Han
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.
- Jenny Han
I wondered if this was the way old crushes died, with a whimper, slowly, and then, just like that—gone.
- Jenny Han
When you walk on the beach at night, you can say things you can't say in real life.
- Jenny Han
I love Conrad and I probably always would. I would spend my whole life loving him one way or another. Maybe I would get married, maybe I would have a family, but it wouldn’t matter, because a piece of my heart, the piece where summer lived, would always be Conrad’s.
- Jenny Han
She and I were still friends, but not best friends, not like we used to be. But we were still friends. She'd known me my whole life. It's hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away a part of yourself.
- Jenny Han
For me, it was almost like winter didn’t count. Summer was what mattered. My whole life was measured in summers.
- Jenny Han
It’s hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away a part of yourself.
- Jenny Han
I had been lying to myself, thinking I was free, thinking I had let him go. It didn't matter what he said or did, I'd never let him go. - Belly Conklin
- Jenny Han
Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer.
- Jenny Han
You just want to keep me on this hook, right? So I'll keep chasing after you and you can feel good about yourself. As soon as I start to get over you, you just reel me back in. You're so screwed up in the head. But I'm telling you, this is it. You don't get to have me anymore. Not as your friend or your admirer or anything. I'm through.
- Jenny Han
I loved the feeling of talking and having somebody really listen to what I have to say. It was like a high or something.
- Jenny Han
I think he would have stayed with her forever, trying to figure out the mystery. He was a puzzle solver, the kind of person who likes theorems, theories. X always had to equal something. It couldn’t just be X.
- Jenny Han
The air tasted just the same, smelled just the same. The wind making my hair feel sticky, the salty sea breeze, all of it felt just right. Like it had been waiting for me to get there.
- Jenny Han

It's Not Summer Without You Quotes

It’s Not Summer Without You, the sequel to Jenny Han’s The Summer I Turned Pretty, picks up where the first book left off. Belly, still entangled in the love triangle with Conrad and Jeremiah, navigates the emotional rollercoaster of teenage love.

Han delivers poignant quotes in It’s Not Summer Without You that resonate with anyone who’s ever felt the sting of heartbreak or the thrill of stolen glances.

Look out for lines that perfectly capture the confusion of growing up, the fierce loyalty of friendship, and the yearning for a summer that feels timeless.

It’s Not Summer Without You will have you reminiscing about your own summer adventures and eagerly awaiting Belly’s journey of self-discovery. Here are the best quotes from It’s Not Summer Without You:

I will never look at you in the same way ever again. I'll never be that girl again. The girl who comes running back every time you push her away, the girl who loves you anyway.
- Jenny Han
How do you regret one of the best nights of your entire life? You don't. You remember every word, every look. Even when it hurts, you still remember.
- Jenny Han
That's when I finally got it. I finally understood. It wasn't the thought that counted. It was the actual execution that mattered, the showing up for somebody. The intent behind it wasn't enough. Not for me. Not anymore. It wasn't enough to know that deep down, he loved me. You had to actually say it to somebody, show them you cared. And he just didn't. Not enough.
- Jenny Han
And no matter what you do or how hard you try, you can’t stop yourself from dreaming.
- Jenny Han
We stood there, looking at each other, saying nothing. But it was the kind of nothing that meant everything. In his eyes, there was no trace of what had happened between us earlier and I could feel something inside me break. So that was that. We were finally, finally over.
- Jenny Han
I release you. I evict you from my heart. Because if I don't do it now, I never will.
- Jenny Han
There are moments in life that you wish with all your heart you could take back. Like, just erase from existence. Like, if you could, you'd erase yourself right out of existence too, just to make that moment not exist.
- Jenny Han
But I had loved him. I loved him longer and truer than I had anyone in my whole life and I would probably never love anyone that way again. Which to be honest was almost a relief.
- Jenny Han
It’s all relative, I suppose. You think you know love, you think you know real pain, but you don’t. You don’t know anything.
- Jenny Han
When a person you love dies, it doesn’t feel real. It’s like it’s happening to someone else. It’s someone else’s life. I’ve never been good with the abstract. What does it mean when someone is really truly gone?
- Jenny Han
The future is unclear. But it’s still mine.
- Jenny Han
My dad always used to say that with everything in life, there’s a game-changing moment. The one moment everything else hinges upon, but you hardly ever know it at the time.
- Jenny Han
Nothing, nothing felt better than the way sand felt beneath my feet. It was both solid and shifting. Constant and ever-changing. It was summer.
- Jenny Han
I used to believe. I used to think that if I wanted it bad enough, wished hard enough, everything would work out the way It was supposed to. Destiny, like Susannah said.
- Jenny Han
I didn't want my love to fade away one day like an old scar. I wanted it to burn forever.
- Jenny Han

We'll Always Have Summer Quotes

We’ll Always Have Summer, the final installment in Jenny Han’s beloved trilogy, delivers a bittersweet conclusion to Belly’s summer love story. As Belly grapples with difficult choices and the weight of the past, the novel offers profound quotes that explore themes of loss, acceptance, and the enduring power of memory.

We offer some lines that capture the bittersweet beauty of letting go, the unshakeable bonds of family, and the unforgettable moments that define our youth.

We’ll Always Have Summer will leave you with a sense of closure and a heart full of nostalgia, reminding you that even as summers end, the cherished memories we create stay with us forever.

Here are some of the best quotes from We’ll Always Have Summer:

He didn’t give me flowers or candy. He gave me the moon and the stars.
- Jenny Han
Maybe that was how it was with all first loves. They own a little piece of your heart, always.
- Jenny Han
He came up and kissed me on my forehead, and before he stepped away, I closed my eyes and tried hard to memorize this moment. I wanted to remember him exactly as he was right then, how his arms looked brown against his white shirt, the way his hair was cut a little too short in the front. Even the bruise, there because of me.
- Jenny Han
He was marrying my girl, and I couldn’t do anything about it. I just had to watch it happen, because he was my brother, because I promised. Take care of him, Connie. I’m counting on you.
- Jenny Han
I’ve only ever loved two boys—both of them with the last name Fisher. Conrad was first, and I loved him in a way that you can really only do the first time around. It’s the kind of love that doesn’t know better and doesn’t want to—it’s dizzy and foolish and fierce. That kind of love is really a one-time-only thing.
- Jenny Han
There hadn’t been one specific moment. It was like gradualy waking up. You go from being asleep to the space between dreaming and awake and then into consciousness. It’s a slow process, but when you’re awake, there’s no mistaking it. There was no mistaking that it had been love.
- Jenny Han
A fight is like a fire. You think you have it under control, you think you can stop it whenever you want, but before you know it, it’s living, breathing thing and there’s no controlling it and you were a fool to think you could.
- Jenny Han
There are moments in every girls life that are bigger than we know at the time. when you look back, you say that was one of those life-changing fork in the road moments and I didn't see it coming and then there are the moments that you know are big that whatever you do next there will be an impact. Your life could go one of two directions, DO or DIE.
- Jenny Han
You Are The Milk To My Shake, forever and ever. Love, J.
- Jenny Han
Lying here and looking up at the stars like this, it makes me feel like I’m lying on a planet. It’s so wide. So infinite.
- Jenny Han
I finally said it. The actual words, out loud, to her face. It was a relief, not carrying it around anymore, and it was a rush, actually telling her. I was in an elated sort of daze, on a high. She loved me. I didn’t need to hear her say it out loud, I knew it innately in the way she looked at me just then. - Conrad Fisher
- Jenny Han

Jenny Han’s The Summer I Turned Pretty trilogy takes you on a captivating journey with Belly as she navigates love, loss, and self-discovery across three unforgettable summers. Through heartfelt quotes, you’ll experience the highs and lows of first love, the unwavering strength of friendship, and the enduring power of memories. Continue reading more quotes on Read & Blog.

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