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Big Summer QUOTES

Big Summer QUOTES

1 " When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail. When you're angry, everything looks like a target. There are a lot of angry people in the world. And these days, they're all online "

― Jennifer Weiner , Big Summer

2 " You are fine, just the way you are... Bodies come in all shapes and sized. Don't let anyone make you feel any differently.
I wanted to believe him, but by then, of course, the damage had been done. "

― Jennifer Weiner , Big Summer

3 " Research shows that shaming fat folks into thinness doesn't work. And come on if it did, most of the fat women in the world would have probably disappeared by now "

― Jennifer Weiner , Big Summer

4 " The trick of the internet, I had learned, was not being unapologetically yourself or completely unfiltered; it was mastering the trick of appearing that way. It was spiking your posts with just the right amount of real... which meant, of course, that you were never being real at all. "

― Jennifer Weiner , Big Summer

5 " I’m not brave all the time. No one is. We’ve all been disappointed; we’ve all had our hearts broken, and we’re all just doing our best. Make sure you have people who love you, the real you, not the Instagram you. If you can’t be brave, pretend to be brave, and if you can’t do that yet, know that you aren’t alone. Everyone you see is struggling. Nobody has it all figured out. "

― Jennifer Weiner , Big Summer

6 " There were things you could be hungry for besides food. "

― Jennifer Weiner , Big Summer

7 " I was going to eat to nourish myself, I was going to exercise to feel strong and healthy, I was going to let go of the idea of ever being thin, once and for all, and live my life in the body that I had. "

― Jennifer Weiner , Big Summer

8 " In space, nobody could hear you scream; on the Internet, nobody could tell if you were lying. "

― Jennifer Weiner , Big Summer

9 " When you’re a hammer, everything looks like a nail. When you’re angry, everything looks like a target. There are a lot of angry people in the world. And these days, they’re all online. "

― Jennifer Weiner , Big Summer

10 " Everyone tries to put the best versions of themselves across. To fake it. And when they’re not doing that, they’re sitting behind their screens, passing judgment and feeling superior to whoever they think’s being sexist or racist that day. "

― Jennifer Weiner , Big Summer

11 " And here’s the good news: even if things don’t get better, you can always make them look good on the internet. "

― Jennifer Weiner , Big Summer

12 " Make sure you have people who love you, the real you, not the Instagram you. "

― Jennifer Weiner , Big Summer

13 " When you’re a hammer, everything looks like a nail. When you’re angry, everything looks like a target. There are a lot of angry people in the world and these days, they’re all online. "

― Jennifer Weiner , Big Summer

14 " Social media means we’re listening to different voices. It’s not just the same, old, powerful white men who all went to the same places for college. It means everyone gets a soap box and if you’ve got something important to say, you can get people to listen. "

― Jennifer Weiner , Big Summer

15 " I listened, thinking this was a Drew I’d never seen. One who saw her own privilege. One who was trying to do better. "

― Jennifer Weiner , Big Summer

16 " The air smelled like the inside of the cabins at the summer camp in Maine: must from the off-season, wet wood and mold, bug spray and sunscreen, sunshine and sweaty kids. The essence of summertime. "

― Jennifer Weiner , Big Summer

17 " intentional whole. "

― Jennifer Weiner , Big Summer

18 " No one wanted to see anything that raw. The trick of the Internet, I had learned, was not being unapologetically yourself or completely unfiltered; it was mastering the trick of appearing that way. It was spiking your posts with just the right amount of real… which meant, of course, that you were never being real at all. "

― Jennifer Weiner , Big Summer

19 " But if, in the end, she never lived the glittering, rich-lady life of her youthful imaginings, she’d have a life that made her happy. "

― Jennifer Weiner , Big Summer

20 " When you have excluded the impossible, what remains, however improbable, must be the truth, "

― Jennifer Weiner , Big Summer