Quotes of: Last-night Keyword

Honor, I thought. For real: the guardians should have taught it. Because I hadn't learned it.

Last Sacrifice

—Dijiste que harías lo que fuera por mi. —Yo moriría por ti, pero si me pides que lo haga significa que no vales la pena.

Last Temptation

Loving isn't about selecting only the good parts. It's about taking the whole and loving the lot.

Last Voyage of the Valentina

People are wonderful one at a time. Each one of them has an entire hologram of the universe somewhere within them.

Last Words

The last declaration he'd made to me hung between us. The L word. The one that had nothing to do with like.

My Merlin Awakening

(Georgie) I hated going to the playground EVERYDAY. If someone had only told me it wouldn't last forever

My Wife's Affair

Truths are the last thing you learn about your family. By the time you learn, you're no longer their child.

Man Crazy

When people did stupid things around him, that was usually the last thing they did.

Swamp Monster Massacre

We must not be too prodigal with our angels; they are the last divinities we harbor, and they might fly away.

Selected Non-Fictions

I guess that’s the thing about riding on cloud nine—it can’t last forever. And that particular fall was hard and fast.

Speechless

A bolt that raised her heart to blazing height And made the vertical the very thrust of hope, And found its path at last (Slow work of Grace).

Selected Poems

When he picked out the [gravesite] plot, my father had joked that he was moving, at last, to the suburbs.

The Scientists: A Family Romance

I was nine minutes late for my last birthday party. And I was nine months on time for my first birthday.

Seriously delirious, but not at all serious

Ms. Fang is the nicest, sweetest teacher at Scary School. She only ate twelve kids last year.

Scary School

You have pissed your last in this house . . . and I don't make velvet roses anymore.

Song of Solomon

I always never leave things for the last minute. I leave them for 59 seconds.

Seriously delirious, but not at all serious

The sea was my first home...Now that I had nowhere else to go, this was the last place I felt safe.

Stay

He's going to bite me! Instantly the last light in the room fades out as if announcing the reign of darkness.

Sveta

He took the last seat, as usual, a subtle reminder of what he was and what he had become.

Truly, Madly, Deeply

National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same.

The Prague Cemetery

True love, the kind that lasts forever, is very rare indeed. It takes compromise, continued growth, and trust.

Poughkeepsie