Famous Last Words Quotes

“thing about grief is that, when it happens to you, you go through the looking glass. Suddenly, everyone else lives one kind of life, with one set of problems, and you another. You’re in a different world now, one you can never return from. And you only realize too late how good the first world was.”
― Gillian McAllister, Famous Last Words

“Funny how some people have a way of pulling a version out of you that isn’t really you.”
― Gillian McAllister, Famous Last Words

“The truth is, the good days with a baby are better than the greatest days in your pre-baby life.”
― Gillian McAllister, Famous Last Words

“She likes language in all its forms, and a well-timed swearword is the best.”
― Gillian McAllister, Famous Last Words

“fisselig. A German word meaning ‘flustered to the point of incompetence’.”
― Gillian McAllister, Famous Last Words

“Cam knows a good book when she sees one. That feeling you get as a reader, 10 percent in, where you just kind of sink into the novel and its world.”
― Gillian McAllister, Famous Last Words

“Sometimes, Luke tries to reassure Cam by telling her she cannot control situations, and there is nothing that Cam finds less reassuring than this.”
― Gillian McAllister, Famous Last Words

“Cam can’t help but beam at her”
― Gillian McAllister, Famous Last Words

“At the heart of this mystery was a book that solved everything for her”
― Gillian McAllister, Famous Last Words

“You can do a lot with information”
― Gillian McAllister, Famous Last Words

“The mistake is so tangible”
― Gillian McAllister, Famous Last Words

“Mired in grief”
― Gillian McAllister, Famous Last Words

“Sometimes”
― Gillian McAllister, Famous Last Words

“That there can be shades of gray here”
― Gillian McAllister, Famous Last Words

“The stories that get told. How no one knows the truth of things unless they’re in them”
― Gillian McAllister, Famous Last Words

“Therapists”
― Gillian McAllister, Famous Last Words

“Maybe it isn’t pointless. Maybe fiction is one of life’s great comforts. Maybe it does matter as much as she feels it does.”
― Gillian McAllister, Famous Last Words

“Cam is dashed through with a jaded kind of pessimism these days that has spread and imbued her personality”
― Gillian McAllister, Famous Last Words

“This is true Cam: she represents wide-ranging fiction”
― Gillian McAllister, Famous Last Words

“Heat rises in fast”
― Gillian McAllister, Famous Last Words

“Above all else”
― Gillian McAllister, Famous Last Words

“The reality is”
― Gillian McAllister, Famous Last Words

“A shivery”
― Gillian McAllister, Famous Last Words

“Somewhere”
― Gillian McAllister, Famous Last Words

“It must be her imagination. Nothing more. But then everything happens all at once”
― Gillian McAllister, Famous Last Words

“Fear runs its fingertip lightly up her spine”
― Gillian McAllister, Famous Last Words

“She likes language in all its forms”
― Gillian McAllister, Famous Last Words

“I like to go to bed with a book,” she’d said”
― Gillian McAllister, Famous Last Words

“There’s a word for this that she recently learned: fisselig. A German word meaning “flustered to the point of incompetence.”
― Gillian McAllister, Famous Last Words

“and opens her laptop. She never shuts it down”
― Gillian McAllister, Famous Last Words