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“It was like coming home after you’d been gone a long, long time. It held a million promises of summer and of what just might be.”
~Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty, (Character: Isabel Conklin as the narrator), Chapter 1, Page 2
“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, The Summer I Turned Pretty, (Character: Isabel Conklin as the narrator), Chapter 1, Page 3
“For me, it was almost like winter didn’t count. Summer was what mattered. My whole life was measured in summers.”
~Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty, (Character: Isabel Conklin as the narrator), Chapter 1, Page 5
“Smirky mouths make you want to kiss them, to smooth them out and kiss the smirkiness away.”
~Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty, (Character: Isabel Conklin as the narrator), Chapter 1, Page 5
“He smiled at me, and that smile — he just gets in. His smile did it every time.”
~Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty, (Character: Isabel Conklin as the narrator), Chapter 1, Page 8
“He pulled on my foot, drawing me closer. Being this close to him was making me feel dizzy and nervous. I said it again, one last time, even though i didn’t mean it.
“Conrad let go of me.”
He did. And then he dunked me. It didn’t matter. I was already holding my breath.”
~Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty, (Character: Isabel Conklin), Chapter 3, Page 19
“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, The Summer I Turned Pretty, (Character: Isabel Conklin as the narrator), Chapter 4, Page 21
“Everybody had somebody but me.”
~Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty, (Character: Isabel Conklin as the narrator), Chapter 6, Page 28
“On the way out Jeremiah turned around and danced a quick jig for me and i couldn’t help it, I laughed. Over his shoulder Conrad said, “Good night Belly.”
And that was it. I was in love”
~Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty, (Character: Isabel Conklin as the narrator and Conrad Fisher, )Chapter 6, Page 29
“I’d never heard of them, but at that moment, it was the best song I’d ever heard. I went out and bought Ten and listened to it on repeat. When I listened to track five, “Black,” it was like I was there, in that moment all over again.
After the summer was over, when I got back home, I went to the music store and bought the sheet music and learned to play it on the piano. I thought one day I could accompany Conrad and we could be, like, a band.”
~Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty, (Character: Isabel Conklin as the narrator), Chapter 8, Page 35
“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, The Summer I Turned Pretty, (Character: Isabel Conklin as the narrator), Chapter 12, Page 47
“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.”
~Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty, (Character: Isabel Conklin as the narrator), Chapter 12, Page 47
“My dad once told me that Winston Churchill said that Russia was riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. According to my dad, Churchill had been talking about my mother. This was before the divorce, and he said it half-bitterly, half-respectfully. Because even when he hated her, he admired her.
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.
To me, my mother wasn’t that mysterious. She was my mother. Always reasonable, always sure of herself. To me, she was about as mysterious as a glass fo water. She knew what she wanted; she knew what she didn’t want. And that was to be married to my father. I wasn’t sure if it was that she fell our of love or if it was that she just never was. in love, I mean.”
~Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty, (Character: Isabel Conklin as the narrator), Chapter 12, Page 51
“My mother was good at that, making people feel normal. Safe. Like as long as she was there, nothing truly bad could happen.”
~Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty, (Character: Isabel Conklin as the narrator), Chapter 14, Page 56
“It occurred to me that I was going to have to make the most of this summer, really make it count, in case there wasn’t another one quite like it. I was getting older too. Things couldn’t stay the same forever.”
~Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty, (Character: Isabel Conklin as the narrator), Chapter 19, Page 98
“Things couldn’t stay the same forever.”
~Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty, (Character: Isabel Conklin as the narrator), Chapter 19, Page 98
“Would you rather live one perfect day over and over or live your life with no perfect days but just decent ones?”
~Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty, (Character: Conrad Fisher), Chapter 20, Page 100
“I could survive for months, years, on a crush.”
~Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty, (Character: Isabel Conklin as the narrator), Chapter 21, Page 105
“Growing up with Steven and spending my summers with Jeremiah and Conrad, winning was always important, and doubly so because I was a girl and was never expected to win anything. Victory is a thousand times sweeter when you’re the underdog.”
~Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty, (Character: Isabel Conklin as the narrator), Chapter 23, Page 133
“Victory is a thousand times sweeter when you’re the underdog.”
~Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty, (Character: Isabel Conklin as the narrator), Chapter 23, Page 133
“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, The Summer I Turned Pretty, (Character: Isabel Conklin as the narrator), Chapter 23, Page 142
“His voice made my shiver, it was like the sound f water when it pulls off sand.”
~Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty, (Character: Isabel Conklin as the narrator), Chapter 23, Page 152
“Moments, when lost, can’t be found again. They’re just gone.”
~Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty, (Character: Isabel Conklin as the narrator), Chapter 23, Page 153
“When you walk on the beach at night, you can say things you can’t say in real life.”
~Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty, (Character: Isabel Conklin as the narrator), Chapter 27, Page 171
“For me there was-is-nothing better than walking on the beach late at night. It feels like you could walk forever, like the whole night is yours and so is the ocean. When you walk on the beach at night, you can say things you can’t say in real life. In the dark you can feel really close to a person. You can say whatever you want.”
~Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty, (Character: Isabel Conklin as the narrator), Chapter 27, Page 171
“In the dark you can feel really close to a person. You can say whatever you want.”
~Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty, (Character: Isabel Conklin as the narrator), Chapter 27, Page 171
“Best friends are important. They’re the closest thing to a sister you’ll ever have.”
~Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty, (Character: Laurel Dunne), Chapter 28, Page 181
“After she left, after that summer, things were the same and they weren’t. She and I were still friends, but not best friends, not like we used to be. But we were still friends. She’d know me my whole life. It’s hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away part of yourself.”
~Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty, (Character: Isabel Conklin as the narrator), Chapter 28, Page 186
“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, The Summer I Turned Pretty, (Character: Isabel Conklin as the narrator), Chapter 28, Pages 186-187
“It’s hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away a part of yourself.”
~Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty, (Character: Isabel Conklin as the narrator), Chapter 28, Pages 186-187
“She’d known me my whole life. It’s hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing a part of yourself.”
~Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty, (Character: Isabel Conklin as the narrator), Chapter 28, Pages 187-188
“He made it so hard not to love him. When he was sweet like this, I remembered why I did. Used to love him, I mean. I remembered everything.”
~Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty, (Character: Isabel Conklin as the narrator), Chapter 29, Page 191
“I didn’t dare look at Conrad. I was afraid my love for him and my need for him to say yes would be written on my face like a poem.”
~Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty, (Character: Isabel Conklin as the narrator), Chapter 30, Page 193
“I wondered if this was the way old crushes died, with a whimper, slowly, and then, just like that—gone.”
~Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty, (Character: Isabel Conklin as the narrator), Chapter 31, Page 200
“Belly, this is Yolie. She’s my co-lifeguard.”
Yolie reached over and shook my hand. It struck me as a businessy thing to do for someone in a bikini. She had a firm handshake, a nice grip, something my mother would have appreciated. “Hi Belly,” she said. “I’ve heard a lot about you.”
“You have?” I looked up at Jeremiah.
He smirked. “Yeah. I told her all about the way you snore so loud that I can hear you down the hall.”
I smacked his foot. “Shut up.” Turning to Yolie, I said, “It’s nice to meet you.”
She smiled at me. She had dimples in both cheeks and a crooked bottom tooth. “You too. Jere, do you want to take your break now?”
“In a little bit,” he said. “Belly, go work on your sun damage.”
~Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty, (Character: Jeremiah Fisher, Yolie, and Isabel Conklin), Chapter 33, Page 207
“It’s the imperfections that make things beautiful”
~Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty, (Character: Isabel Conklin as the narrator), Chapter 35, Page 215
“I was as cool as a cucumber”
~Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty, (Character: Isabel Conklin as the narrator), Chapter 39, Page 230
“The thing was, Jeremiah was right. I did love him. I knew the exact moment it became real too. Conrad got up early to make a special belated
Father’s Day breakfast, only Mr. Fisher hadn’t been able to come down the night before. He wasn’t there the next morning the way he was supposed to be. Conrad cooked anyway, and he was thirteen and a terrible cook, but we all ate it. Watching him serving rubbery eggs and pretending not to be sad, I thought to myself, I will love this boy forever.”
~Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty, (Character: Isabel Conklin as the narrator), Chapter 41, Page 241
“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, The Summer I Turned Pretty, (Character: Isabel Conklin as the narrator), Chapter 42, Page 245
“His eyes were these bleak and empty abysses, like sockets. There was nothing there. The boy I thought I knew so well was gone. He looked so lost sitting there. I felt that old lurch, that gravitational pull, that desire to inhabit him—like wherever he was in this world, I would know where to find him, and I would do it. I would find him and take him home. I would take care of him, just like Susannah wanted.”
~Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty, (Character: Isabel Conklin as the narrator), Chapter 43, Page 261
“The old pull, the tide drawing me back in. I kept getting caught in this current—first love, I mean. First love kept making me come back to this, to him. He still took my breath away, just being near him. I had been lying to myself the night before, 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.”
~Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty, (Character: Isabel Conklin as the narrator), Chapter 43, Page 262
“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.”
~Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty, (Character: Isabel Conklin as the narrator), Chapter 43, Page 262
“I wondered if it was possible to take someone’s pain away with a kiss. Because that was what i wanted to do, take all of his sadness and pour it out of him, comfort him, make the boy i knew come back.”
~Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty, (Character: Isabel Conklin as the narrator), Chapter 43, Page 262
“Even paradise could be suffocating”
~Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty, (Character: Isabel Conklin as the narrator), Chapter 44, Page 264
“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, The Summer I Turned Pretty, (Character: Isabel Conklin as the narrator), Chapter 44, Page 265
“We sat around the kitchen table picking off of foil-covered plates. Conrad kept sneaking looks at me, and every time I looked back, he looked away. I’m right here, I wanted to tell him. I’m still here.”
~Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty, (Character: Isabel Conklin as the narrator), Chapter 45, Page 267
“Susannah continued. “If and when I go off slow dancing in the ever after, I don’t want to look like I’ve been stuck in a hospital room my whole life. I at least want to be tan.”
~Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty, (Character: Susannah Fisher), Chapter 45, Page 269
“I wished I could stay forever, in this moment. Like in one of those plastic snowballs, one little moment frozen in time.”
~Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty, (Character: Isabel Conklin as the narrator), Chapter 45, Page 271
“For a second, I felt sad, and then suddenly, out of nowhere, it came to me. A memory, pressed in my heart like a leaf in my book.”
~Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty, (Character: Isabel Conklin as the narrator), Chapter 45, Page 272
“I say, ” I can’t believe you’re really here.”
He sounds almost shy when he says, “Me neither.” And then he hesitates.
“Are you still coming with me?”
I cant believe he even has to ask. I would go anywhere. “Yes,” I tell him. It feels like nothing else exists outside of that word, this moment. There’s just us. Everything that happened this past summer and every summer before it, has all led up to this. To Now”
~Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty, (Character: Isabel Conklin and Conrad Fisher), Chapter 46, Page 276
Conrad Fisher Quotes
“On the way out Jeremiah turned around and danced a quick jig for me and i couldn’t help it, I laughed. Over his shoulder Conrad said, “Good night Belly.”
And that was it. I was in love”
~Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty, (Characters: Isabel Conklin as the narrator and Conrad Fisher), Chapter 6, Page 29
“Would you rather live one perfect day over and over or live your life with no perfect days but just decent ones?”
~Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty, (Character: Conrad Fisher), Chapter 20, Page 100
“I say, ” I can’t believe you’re really here.”
He sounds almost shy when he says, “Me neither.” And then he hesitates.
“Are you still coming with me?”
I cant believe he even has to ask. I would go anywhere. “Yes,” I tell him. It feels like nothing else exists outside of that word, this moment. There’s just us. Everything that happened this past summer and every summer before it, has all led up to this. To Now”
~Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty, (Characters: Isabel Conklin and Conrad Fisher), Chapter 46, Page 276
What is a good quote in The Summer I Turned Pretty?
“Moments, when lost, can’t be found again. They’re just gone.”
~Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty, by Isabel Conklin, Chapter 23, Page 153
What is a sad quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty?
“I wondered if it was possible to take someone’s pain away with a kiss. Because that was what i wanted to do, take all of his sadness and pour it out of him, comfort him, make the boy i knew come back.”
~Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty, (Character: Isabel Conklin as the narrator), Chapter 43, Page 262
What is the quote about Belly and Conrad?
“I (Belly) 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, The Summer I Turned Pretty, about Conrad (Isabel Conklin as the narrator), Chapter 44, Page 265