Quotes from Something Like Summer

Jay Bell ·  292 pages

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“Love isn’t meant to be hidden away and life is too short for shame.”
― Jay Bell, quote from Something Like Summer


“There’s a coward and a fool, and both of them are you, My heart is cracked and broken, but yours is frozen through.”
― Jay Bell, quote from Something Like Summer


“Teach me how to fly, my beautiful butterfly.”
― Jay Bell, quote from Something Like Summer


“Why couldn't people's insides match their outsides? The world would be such a wonderful place if the nicer someone was, the more beautiful they became.”
― Jay Bell, quote from Something Like Summer


“That the sun still rose the next morning was incredibly unjust. Someone good had died. People still woke up, had breakfast, went to work, and it was wrong. Flower petals still opened in the sun’s early light, and animals still grazed the day away, their minds untroubled. Someone good had died and the world had the audacity to move on.”
― Jay Bell, quote from Something Like Summer



“Falling in love is a subtle process, a connection sparked by attraction, tested by compatibility, and forged by memory.”
― Jay Bell, quote from Something Like Summer


“He was so handsome, so beautiful. Inside and out.”
― Jay Bell, quote from Something Like Summer


“He looks into my eyes,
mine mirrored in his,
and we each see a boy,
lost in pauper’s bliss.”
― Jay Bell, quote from Something Like Summer


“Love isn’t meant to be hidden away. Life is too short for shame.”
― Jay Bell, quote from Something Like Summer


“Ben let a slow smile play over his face. He loved this part. It always felt like revealing to a disbeliever that he had magical powers or something.”
― Jay Bell, quote from Something Like Summer



“The world would be such a wonderful place if the nicer someone was, the more beautiful they became.”
― Jay Bell, quote from Something Like Summer


“I don't care what you are, I like you for who you are.”
― Jay Bell, quote from Something Like Summer


“You can’t have both of them,” Allison said. “There’s a reason you never see three old people walking through a park and holding hands. It just doesn’t happen.” Ben”
― Jay Bell, quote from Something Like Summer


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Jay Bell
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