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Summer of '69 QUOTES

Summer of '69 QUOTES

1 " Never let a man be responsible for your happiness. "

― Elin Hilderbrand , Summer of '69

2 " Sadness comes long after all of the other, more difficult and destructive emotions have passed "

― Elin Hilderbrand , Summer of '69

3 " The only person who wants the soldier to live more than the soldier himself is the soldier’s mother. Kate "

― Elin Hilderbrand , Summer of '69

4 " And maybe, just maybe, this summer will end up being one that people write songs about. "

― Elin Hilderbrand , Summer of '69

5 " What if growing up means keeping some things to herself? The experiences of this summer will become as much a part of her as her bones and muscle, her brain and heart. Ten or twenty years from now, when she looks back on the summer of 1969, she will think: That was the summer I became real. My own real person. "

― Elin Hilderbrand , Summer of '69

6 " no one can judge a relationship except for the two people in it. "

― Elin Hilderbrand , Summer of '69

7 " Being responsible for her own happiness, she has realized, is a lonely proposition. "

― Elin Hilderbrand , Summer of '69

8 " She wasn’t sure if they were telling her the truth; sometimes they told her things to see if she was gullible enough to believe them. "

― Elin Hilderbrand , Summer of '69

9 " how to score the game: love, fifteen, thirty, forty, game. Six games wins a set, but you have to win by two games. Two sets wins a match for women, three for men. "

― Elin Hilderbrand , Summer of '69

10 " This is foxhole religion at its most basic. The only person who wants the soldier to live more than the soldier himself is the soldier’s mother. "

― Elin Hilderbrand , Summer of '69

11 " You know what the happiest summer of my life was?" Kate asks.
'When you turned 13?' Jessie guesses.
"I was 13 during the Great Depression, so no. "

― Elin Hilderbrand , Summer of '69

12 " malachite "

― Elin Hilderbrand , Summer of '69

13 " Kirby has learned that no one can judge a relationship except for the two people in it. "

― Elin Hilderbrand , Summer of '69

14 " tumescence, "

― Elin Hilderbrand , Summer of '69

15 " (What would being a twenty-one-year-old in 2019 look like? Kirby couldn’t begin to imagine.) "

― Elin Hilderbrand , Summer of '69

16 " fecundity. "

― Elin Hilderbrand , Summer of '69

17 " The line that finally makes Jessie burst into sobs is Despite everything, I believe all people are good at heart. "

― Elin Hilderbrand , Summer of '69

18 " It seemed the cruelest circumstance life had to offer - that someone she loved so profoundly could hurt her so badly and still that love did not die. "

― Elin Hilderbrand , Summer of '69

19 " she’s not wrong. Men are like that. But we don’t have to put up with it. Jessie, do you hear me? We do not have to put up with it. "

― Elin Hilderbrand , Summer of '69

20 " Other soldiers at this table may be wishing they were safe in their homes with their families, but Tiger knows that, right now, he’s where he’s supposed to be. "

― Elin Hilderbrand , Summer of '69