62 The Summer I Turned Pretty Quotes by Jenny Han

Jenny Han’s The Summer I Turned Pretty is a young adult romance book published by Simon & Schuster.

It is the first installment in a trilogy that also includes It’s Not Summer Without You and We’ll Always Have Summer.

The novel follows Belly, a girl who lives her life in summers and goes through a coming-of-age transition from childhood to early adulthood.

We have selected the top quotes from The Summer I Turned Pretty Quotes by Jenny Han.

The Summer I Turned Pretty Quotes by Jenny Han

“It was a total catch-22, like a contradiction in terms.” ~ Jenny Han (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

“So I guess it’s okay with you if I smoke up too?” says Steven. “If you get breast cancer” ~ Jenny Han (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

“I was as cool as a cucumber.” ~ Jenny Han (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

“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 (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

“Smirky mouths make you want to kiss them, to smooth them out and kiss the smirkiness away.” ~ Jenny Han (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

“He smiled at me, and that smile — he just gets in. His smile did it every time.” ~ Jenny Han (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

“As I walked away, I heard the girl ask, “Is she your girlfriend?” I whirled around, and we both said “No!” at the same time.” ~ Jenny Han (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

“I could survive for months, years, on a crush.” ~ Jenny Han (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

“When you walk on the beach at night, you can say things you can’t say in real life.” ~ Jenny Han (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

“And in the end, he would become a memory, pressed in my heart like a leaf in my book.” ~ Jenny Han (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

“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 (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

“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.” -Belly” ~ Jenny Han (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

Quotes from The Summer I Turned Pretty

“I wondered if this was the way old crushes died, with a whimper, slowly, and then, just like that—gone.” ~ Jenny Han (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

“For me, it was almost like winter didn’t count. Summer was what mattered. My whole life was measured in summers.” ~ Jenny Han (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

“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 (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

“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 (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

“Victory is ten times sweeter for the underdog.” ~ Jenny Han (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

“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 (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

“In the dark you can feel really close to a person. You can say whatever you want.” ~ Jenny Han (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

“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 (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

“Catching him off guard felt like a good sign. He had a million walls. Maybe if I just started talking, he wouldn’t have time to build up a new one.” ~ Jenny Han (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

“I just needed to be on the beach. The beach would make me feel better. Nothing, nothing felt better than the way sand felt beneath my feet. It was both solid and shifting, constant and ever-changing. It was summer” -Belly” ~ Jenny Han (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

Famous The Summer I Turned Pretty Quotes

“Even paradise can be suffocating” ~ Jenny Han (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

“His voice made my shiver, it was like the sound of water when it pulls off sand.” ~ Jenny Han (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

“I felt it a week before we left, every time. And then of course, when the time came, I was never ready to leave. I wanted to stay forever.” ~ Jenny Han (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

“Victory is a thousand times sweeter when you’re the underdog.” ~ Jenny Han (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

“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 (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

“It’s the imperfections that make things beautiful” ~ Jenny Han (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

“Victory is a thousand times sweeter when you’re the underdog.” ~ Jenny Han (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

“for belly, conrad is the sun. and when the sun comes out, the stars disappear.” ~ Jenny Han (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

“Best friends are important. They’re the closest thing to a sister you’ll ever have.” ~ Jenny Han (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

“Summer was what mattered. My whole life was measured in summers. Like I don’t really begin living until June, until I’m at that beach.” ~ Jenny Han (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

“Would you rather live one perfect day over and over or live your life with no perfect days but just decent ones?” ~ Jenny Han (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

“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 (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

“I wished for Conrad on every birthday, every shooting star, every lost eyelash, every penny in a fountain was dedicated to the one I loved.” ~ Jenny Han (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

Best Summer I Turned Pretty Quotes

“For me, it was almost like winter didn’t count. Summer was what mattered. My whole life was measured in summers. Like I don’t really begin living until June, until I’m at that beach, in that house” ~ Jenny Han (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

“The thing is, Susannah was right. It was a summer I’d 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. I was.” ~ Jenny Han (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

“Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer.” ~ Jenny Han (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

“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. I” ~ Jenny Han (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

“I’d nursed a crush on Conrad for whole school years. I could survive for months, years, on a crush. It was like food. It could sustain me. If Conrad was mine, there was no way I’d break up with him over a summer-or a school year, for that matter.” ~ Jenny Han (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

“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 (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

Powerful The Summer I Turned Pretty Quotes

“Everybody had somebody but me.” ~ Jenny Han (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

“Moments, when lost, can’t be found again. They’re just gone.” ~ Jenny Han (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

“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 (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

“I envied their relationship. They were exactly like copilots, in perfect balance. I didn’t have that kind of friendship, the forever kind of friendship that will last your whole life through, no matter what.” ~ Jenny Han (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

“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 (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

“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 (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

“It was so much better driving with the windows down. It felt like you were actually going somewhere.” ~ Jenny Han (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

“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 (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

“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 (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

Great The Summer I Turned Pretty Quotes

“Victory is a thousand times sweeter when you’re the underdog.” -Belly” ~ Jenny Han (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

“Things couldn’t stay the same forever.” ~ Jenny Han (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

“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 (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

“It’s hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away a part of yourself.” ~ Jenny Han (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

“Sometimes it’s like people are a million times more beautiful to you in your mind. It’s like you see them, that’s how they really are.” ~ Jenny Han (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

“I wished I could stay forever, in this moment. Like in one of those plastic snowballs, one little moment frozen in time.” ~ Jenny Han (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

“Sometimes it’s like people are a million times more beautiful to you in your mind.” ~ Jenny Han (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 (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

“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 (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

“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 (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

“I thought he was kind of a dick too, but I didn’t say so. You’re not supposed to join in when someone is bashing his father.” ~ Jenny Han (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

“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 (quote from The Summer I Turned Pretty).

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