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

“fisselig. A German word meaning ‘flustered to the point of incompetence’.”
― 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

“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

“She will do her best, for Polly, to survive. But right now, on this weekday evening in London, the night belongs to Luke, and to her, and to their love story.”
― Gillian McAllister, Famous Last Words

“At the heart of this mystery was a book that solved everything for her, the way they always do. A story that made sense of the chaos of life.”
― Gillian McAllister, Famous Last Words

“Funny how things look different depending on what you know to be true.”
― Gillian McAllister, Famous Last Words

“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

“Funny how sometimes everything changes and sometimes nothing does.”
― Gillian McAllister, Famous Last Words

“Sometimes, you pay a price for happiness. It’s worth it, but you still pay it.”
― Gillian McAllister, Famous Last Words

“There is something nice about sitting with somebody confident. Like you somehow belong in the world.”
― Gillian McAllister, Famous Last Words

“Motherhood”
― Gillian McAllister, Famous Last Words

“The thing about grief is that”
― Gillian McAllister, Famous Last Words

“her taste could be described easily in one word: escapism. There’s a German word for this too: Weltschmerz. Translated as “world-grief.” To Cam, it is perfect.”
― Gillian McAllister, Famous Last Words

“Cam he never wanted to waste time worrying when he “could be having fun.”
― Gillian McAllister, Famous Last Words

“Going out would suit Luke, but not Cam. “I like to go to bed with a book,” she’d said, sounding meek, but it was true.”
― Gillian McAllister, Famous Last Words

“why is the standard so much lower the higher the intimacy gets?”
― Gillian McAllister, Famous Last Words

“Cam doesn’t know where to begin. Her brain feels so full. Meetings, submissions, novels about to be published. 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

“But actually, may I remind you that most everyone feels utterly fucked up by life.”
― Gillian McAllister, Famous Last Words

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

“The 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

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