The Last Innocent Hour Quotes

“Don’t you think it’s strange?” I said. He had gotten several feet ahead of me and he stopped and turned.

“What do you mean?”

“That we were children together.” I looked up at his face. “You’re so familiar to me—but not. I see my past in you—but you’re still a stranger.”
― Margot Abbott, The Last Innocent Hour

“I suddenly felt such conflicting emotions: anger at him, pity for us, regret for myself, and disappointment at the lost chance. Here, I suspected, was a great romance.”
― Margot Abbott, The Last Innocent Hour

“I am reminded of an old Chinese curse I read somewhere: May you live in interesting times. I think of it and laugh. What a curse it is. Interesting times, indeed.”
― Margot Abbott, The Last Innocent Hour

“Her dreams, when they came, were not about her dead, beloved brother but were full of shiny water and a goldenhaired boy and menace. Somehow, everything always seemed to come back to him.”
― Margot Abbott, The Last Innocent Hour

“That was what was so seductive about the memories of him. Her sensual memories of him were crystal-clear and popped up to haunt her at odd moments. Even now, she could remember the feel of his cheek under her hand, the creases at the side of his mouth when he smiled.”
― Margot Abbott, The Last Innocent Hour

“You are beautiful and I will love you forever, she had said to him that day by the lake. Neither of them ever forgot her valiant, youthful promise, but now—the love destroyed, his beauty mocked by the ugly significance of his uniform, she hoped he was dead.”
― Margot Abbott, The Last Innocent Hour

“He was still standing there, looking after me, a shadow except for his white shirtfront and pale head, a stray moonbeam hitting and lighting his golden hair. “I love you, I thought, although I didn’t speak the words. You’re beautiful and I’ll love you forever.”
― Margot Abbott, The Last Innocent Hour