# Quote — Sarah Dessen, That Summer

> My sister, who never understood most of the things I wanted her to, might have been able to understand what had happened to me in this summer of weddings and beginnings. And she was right. The first boy was always the hardest. page 40000

- Author: [Sarah Dessen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sarah-dessen.md)
- Book: [That Summer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sarah-dessen/that-summer.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sarah_Dessen#That_Summer_(1996)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/sarah-dessen/that-summer/my-sister-who

## More from this book

> At every wedding someone stays home.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sarah-dessen/that-summer/at-every-wedding.md)

> It’s funny how one summer can change everything. It must be something about the heat and the smell of chlorine, fresh-cut grass and honeysuckle, asphalt sizzling after late-day thunderstorms, the steam rising while everything drips around it. Something about long, lazy days and whirring air conditioners and bright plastic flip-flops from the drugstore thwacking down the street. Something about fall being so close, another year, another Christmas, another beginning. So much in one summer, stirring up like the storms that crest at the end of each day, blowing out all the heat and dirt to leave everything gasping and cool. Everyone can reach back to one summer and lay a finger to it, finding the exact point when everything changed. That summer was mine.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sarah-dessen/that-summer/its-funny-how.md)

> It was just perfect, just right all at once.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sarah-dessen/that-summer/it-was-just.md)