The First and Last Adventure of Kit Sawyer Quotes

“I wasn’t sure when he’d moved closer, but his hand on the back of my neck made me startle. I looked up into his unspeakably fond eyes. I could look into those eyes forever. Sappy. Oh, God, the sap is thick enough to choke on. My lips curved upward slightly as even my inner romantic gagged. Guess I’d been suppressing my feelings for him for a long time. I should be forgiven for being sappy enough to make good maple syrup. It didn’t seem to matter whether he returned those feelings or not. Without the animosity and jealousy, I’d found there was just…Ethan. And that was the very best excavation I’d ever done.”
― S.E. Harmon, The First and Last Adventure of Kit Sawyer

“Yeah, I do,” he said huskily. “And Kit, I’ve been focused on you since the day we first met. You’re the one just catching up.”
― S.E. Harmon, The First and Last Adventure of Kit Sawyer

“It’s the people who remember us that keep us alive. So…maybe we’re just doing our job. It’s not an easy”
― S.E. Harmon, The First and Last Adventure of Kit Sawyer

“I’m just saying we’re the gatekeepers to the memory of the ones we’ve lost. Everything we’ve accumulated—houses, cars, jewelry, money—it’s just stuff. When you die, it’s all given away, donated, tossed…it doesn’t mean anything. Not in the end.”
― S.E. Harmon, The First and Last Adventure of Kit Sawyer

“But it’s not fair!” “No, it’s not,” she said sadly, smoothing back my wild tangle of hair. “And if I could take it away from you and put it on myself, I would. But it gets better. I promise.” I called bullshit on that. Things didn’t get better. You just got better at dealing with the shit hand you’d been dealt. I only wished I could go back in time and let myself in on the good news. Life continued not to play fair. But along the way, you’ll learn how precious it is anyway.”
― S.E. Harmon, The First and Last Adventure of Kit Sawyer

“The obstetrician thought I was a breech but I had my nose in a book.”
― S.E. Harmon, The First and Last Adventure of Kit Sawyer

“It should.” His hand encircled the side of my neck, pressing gently until I looked up at him. “I wanted you so badly and you didn’t seem interested. I wasn't about to rub my nose in it by dating a Kit clone.”
― S.E. Harmon, The First and Last Adventure of Kit Sawyer

“Why had I ever fought him on that nickname? I lifted my head as he stuffed Val’s lumpy pack under my head. When Ethan said it, I practically melted into a puddle of goo. For the first time in a long while, I wished I could reapply a layer of our antagonism. Stripped down to its organic state, this…thing between us had the power to crush me like a piece of Aztec stone.”
― S.E. Harmon, The First and Last Adventure of Kit Sawyer

“That may be,” I said evenly. “Look. I know we have history. And sometimes you may not like me very much. But I need you to trust me, Ethan.” “Like you?” He looked slightly incredulous. “Good Lord, Kit. If clueless was a person….” I scowled. “There’s no need to get testy. I’m trying to—” “Just…shut up for a minute, yeah?” He blew out a breath. I had a feeling he was backing down his bristliness, too. We were like two porcupines trying to cooperate to get out of an air mattress. “Where are we headed?”
― S.E. Harmon, The First and Last Adventure of Kit Sawyer

“You were nothing like I imagined.” Knee-jerk hurt. I didn’t let it sting for more than a second. Despite what he’d said, I did know him better. He wasn’t Paul or Jonathan or Kyle…or any of the other guys I’d been with before. I was pretty sure that in Ethan’s eyes, I wouldn’t come up lacking. That gave me the hutzpah to ask, “Better or worse?” “I don’t have the words to describe it. And I’ve imagined it a lot.” “Probably not more than me,” I admitted. Was that a blush on his cheeks? “Yeah, I’ll take that bet.”
― S.E. Harmon, The First and Last Adventure of Kit Sawyer

“Twenty-plus years, Kit.” He kissed a path up my throat and then behind my ear. I was almost afraid to breathe for fear he’d stop. “I’ve been in your life for twenty fucking years and you still don’t know me at all.”
― S.E. Harmon, The First and Last Adventure of Kit Sawyer

“I gave him the look of death. Annoyance crossed that handsome face. Good. Be annoyed. I knew how to deal with an annoyed Ethan better than the one who kissed like heaven and made me feel safe and special in all the right ways. That Ethan was hard to let go of. This Ethan? The one with the irritated, flashing green eyes? The one who looked like he was seconds from yelling at me to get over myself? Yeah, he could fuck right off. He was still hot as fuck, though.”
― S.E. Harmon, The First and Last Adventure of Kit Sawyer

“I run a clean ship here. No dust to be found,” Mateo said gravely, his mouth twitching with amusement. “How long have you two been together?” I wasn’t sure whose glare was fiercer and poor Mateo’s brown eyes widened nervously. “Not in this lifetime,” I swore. Ethan scoffed. “You should be so lucky.” He and Mateo exchanged a look. Mateo’s was knowing and Ethan’s almost…furtive? I had no idea what they were about and I didn’t have the extra brain cells to figure it out. I was laser-focused on this Tlaloc thing right about now.”
― S.E. Harmon, The First and Last Adventure of Kit Sawyer

“Christopher Sawyer,” I said, holding out my hand. Javier shook it, a furrow between his eyebrows. His dark eyes widened suddenly and he gave Ethan an unreadable look. “The Christopher Sawyer that you—” “We should probably get going,” Ethan said loudly. “Traffic is going to be a bitch.”
― S.E. Harmon, The First and Last Adventure of Kit Sawyer

“worrying about me handling myself but I needed him to want to be here? It was too paradoxical to contemplate.”
― S.E. Harmon, The First and Last Adventure of Kit Sawyer

“I wasn’t sure why I felt so stung. There hadn’t been much more than animosity between Ethan and me since we were little. Why should it be different now? Besides, I couldn’t have it both ways. I didn’t want him”
― S.E. Harmon, The First and Last Adventure of Kit Sawyer

“It was also irritating that he was just as handsome as ever. The TV didn’t do him justice—he had the kind of chiseled jaw and hard muscles that TV execs loved to parade around on the screen. The messy blond hair and crystal green eyes didn’t hurt either. He was also taller than me, which was extremely vexing, seeing how I was a pretty tall guy myself at six-two, and he topped me by at least a couple of inches.”
― S.E. Harmon, The First and Last Adventure of Kit Sawyer

“Well. I could be Indiana Jones if he was fine-boned and lean and a whole lot less rugged. And if he was dark-haired and gray-eyed with a dose of epilepsy. So…no? Maybe I could be Ohio Jones, his slightly less fantastic cousin.”
― S.E. Harmon, The First and Last Adventure of Kit Sawyer

“Which just proves it's never too soon to get checked for dementia.”
― S.E. Harmon, The First and Last Adventure of Kit Sawyer