27 Quotes by Jennifer Close

When a friendship ends, people don't always give it the same amount of thought that they do relationships ... most of the time, friendships end in a different way - slowly, and without declarations. Usually people don't really notice until a friend has been gone for a while and then they just say they grew apart, or their lives became too different.

This is the first fall that I haven't gone to school. Maybe that's why I feel weird all the time.

I think I miss Ben,” she told Lauren one night. “No, you don’t,” Lauren said. “But sometimes, I really think I do.” Lauren sighed. “Isabella, you miss the essence of a boy. That’s all.

For him, kindness was a reflex, and I envied that.

And like most big families, they were loud and secretly thought they were funnier and a little more special than everyone else.

Are you ever afraid that you aren't going to meet anyone?

Sometimes she missed people before they even left her, got depressed about a vacation being over before it started.

There are fall days in October that are so beautiful they take your breath away. The sky is blue and the sun is strong and the air is finally the tiniest bit crisp. Most of the East Coast is already bundled up in their winter coats, but we get to appreciate the last of the sunshine.

We could pretend this town was ours, but really it was just on loan.