#seventeenth summer

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Maureen Daly - Seventeenth Summer - Scholastic Book Services - 1968

[aseaofquotes]

Maureen Daly, Seventeenth Summer

[crazyindianachick]

That night, lying in bed, I could not help wishing that were wasn't so much sadness in growing up. It was all confused in my mind. There has been the long, long, days of being young and not wondering about tomorrow at all and thinking in a strange, forgotten child's world. There were days when my thoughts were as mild as feathers and even an hour seemed like a long time. Then suddenly it was like turning a sharp corner—you were older and the things that counted when you were young didn't count anymore at all, and looking back, you couldn't even see them. Growing up crowds you mind with new thoughts and new feelings so that you forget how you used to think and feel.

Seventeenth Summer, by Maureen Daly

[duckiereads]

Hi, this is me remembering to blog that I'm reading this because Im procrastinating finishing this. It's slow.

[crazyindianachick]

I need to have a daughter just so I can hand her a copy of Seventeenth Summer on her 17th birthday

[crazyindianachick]

Growing up is like taking down the sides of your house and letting strangers walk in.

Seventeenth Summer, by Maureen Daly

[crazyindianachick]

For the first time in my life I felt that warm, possessive power that comes from knowing that you are able to worry a boy.

Seventeenth Summer, by Maureen Daly Published 1942 but still relatable

[words-going-across-the-universe]

And even when I'm with you, I can't seem to be with you...enough.

Maureen Daly, Seventeenth Summer