Quotes from Something Like Summer

Jay Bell ·  292 pages

Rating: (7.4K votes)


“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


Video

About the author

Jay Bell
Born place: in The United States
See more on GoodReads

Popular quotes

“Maybe I should drive,” Troy said. “She knows what she’s doing,” Mad Rogan said. I sniffed. “What?” “The fragrance of a genuine compliment from Mad Rogan. So rare and sweet.”
― Ilona Andrews, quote from Burn for Me


“A man with an Irish accent could sound wise and poetic and interesting even when he wasn’t.”
― Kate Atkinson, quote from When Will There Be Good News?


“You don't know the meaning of true love if you think it can be deliberately selected. You just love, that's all. A natural force, irresistible.”
― Saul Bellow, quote from Henderson the Rain King


“It was a great love," she said. "Don't let anyone tell you differently. Take good care of yourself. You'll be happy with someone else.”
― Erick Setiawan, quote from Of Bees and Mist


“I’m not going anywhere, Brynne. You’re stuck with me and you better get used to it…”
― Raine Miller, quote from All In


Interesting books

Slouching Towards Bethlehem
(24.1K)
Slouching Towards Be...
by Joan Didion
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
(27.7K)
The Gentleman's Guid...
by Mackenzi Lee
In the Forests of the Night
(13.2K)
In the Forests of th...
by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Golden Trail
(18.1K)
Golden Trail
by Kristen Ashley
My Soul to Keep
(18.4K)
My Soul to Keep
by Rachel Vincent
Stone of Farewell
(36.9K)
Stone of Farewell
by Tad Williams

About BookQuoters

BookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, memorable and interesting quotes from great books. As the world communicates more and more via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become more relevant and important. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a philosophy by which we live. For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a book and to carry with us the author’s best ideas.

We thoughtfully gather quotes from our favorite books, both classic and current, and choose the ones that are most thought-provoking. Each quote represents a book that is interesting, well written and has potential to enhance the reader’s life. We also accept submissions from our visitors and will select the quotes we feel are most appealing to the BookQuoters community.

Founded in 2023, BookQuoters has quickly become a large and vibrant community of people who share an affinity for books. Books are seen by some as a throwback to a previous world; conversely, gleaning the main ideas of a book via a quote or a quick summary is typical of the Information Age but is a habit disdained by some diehard readers. We feel that we have the best of both worlds at BookQuoters; we read books cover-to-cover but offer you some of the highlights. We hope you’ll join us.