Summer of '69 Quotes

“Never let a man be responsible for your happiness.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, Summer of '69

“Sadness comes long after all of the other, more difficult and destructive emotions have passed”
― Elin Hilderbrand, Summer of '69

“And maybe, just maybe, this summer will end up being one that people write songs about.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, Summer of '69

“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

“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

“no one can judge a relationship except for the two people in it.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, Summer of '69

“Being responsible for her own happiness, she has realized, is a lonely proposition.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, Summer of '69

“Kirby has learned that no one can judge a relationship except for the two people in it.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, Summer of '69

“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

“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

“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

“What if growing up means keeping some things to herself”
― Elin Hilderbrand, Summer of '69

“In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, Summer of '69

“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

“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

“Telling the truth when you’ve done something wrong is the most terrifying thing in the world.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, Summer of '69

“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

“now Kate is forty-eight years old, an age she only properly feels when she’s in a place that holds all of her different lives together, as this room does.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, Summer of '69

“fecundity.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, Summer of '69

“There aren’t words to describe how I felt. There just…aren’t words. A person is alive one minute, dead the next. The human mind really can’t process it.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, Summer of '69

“A person is alive one minute, dead the next. The human mind really can’t process it. Sadness comes long after all of the other, more difficult and destructive emotions have passed.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, Summer of '69

“The most important thing is that you go to bed each night believing you raised a hero.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, Summer of '69

“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

“In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, Summer of '69

“Is there anyone in the world more fascinating than the woman you lost out to?”
― Elin Hilderbrand, Summer of '69

“It's a revelation. Her mother is a human being who feels pain, sadness, loneliness, confusion.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, Summer of '69

“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

“didn’t understand how lucky I was to have her until she was gone.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, Summer of '69

“I've been smart my whole life, Angus says. And I guess I was angry that I couldn't find a way to heal myself.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, Summer of '69

“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