The Last Time We Say Goodbye Quotes

“Time passes. That's the rule. No matter what happens, no matter how much it might feel like everything in your life has been frozen around one particular moment, time marches on.”
― Cynthia Hand, The Last Time We Say Goodbye

“Forgiveness is tricky, Alexis, because in the end it’s more about you than it’s about the person who’s being forgiven”
― Cynthia Hand, The Last Time We Say Goodbye

“Brave isn't something you are. It's something you do.”
― Cynthia Hand, The Last Time We Say Goodbye

“There's death all around us. Everywhere we look. 1.8 people kill themselves every second. We just don't pay attention. Until we do.”
― Cynthia Hand, The Last Time We Say Goodbye

“This is going to sound trite, I suppose, but you never know when it’s going to be the last time. That you hug someone. That you kiss. That you say goodbye.”
― Cynthia Hand, The Last Time We Say Goodbye

“Everything changes. That's the only constant.”
― Cynthia Hand, The Last Time We Say Goodbye

“It’s such a cliché, the whole ‘time heals all wounds’ thing, but it’s true. Clichés are clichés for a reason,”
― Cynthia Hand, The Last Time We Say Goodbye

“I'm messed up.
I go through phases where I think everything's going to be okay and the sky is blue and stuff and I can feel the sun and the air going in and out of my lungs and I think, life is good. But then every time, I also know deep down that the darkness is coming. And it's going to keep coming. And when I'm in the darkness I'm going to screw up everything.”
― Cynthia Hand, The Last Time We Say Goodbye

“It's funny how sometimes you don't see the obvious things coming. You think you know what life has in store for you. You think you're prepared. You think you can handle it. And then-boom, like a thunderclap-something comes at you out of nowhere and catches you off guard.”
― Cynthia hand , The Last Time We Say Goodbye

“All the best things are like that, though, Lex, the most beautiful things. Part of the beauty comes from the fact that they’re short-lived.”
― Cynthia Hand, The Last Time We Say Goodbye

“You never know when it's going to be the last time.”
― Cynthia Hand, The Last Time We Say Goodbye

“You don't know until you know.”
― Cynthia Hand, The Last Time We Say Goodbye

“Because what we associate with the idea of love is purely chemical. It can be broken down into scientifically proven phases: it starts with a dose of testosterone and estrogen, what we would think of as ‘lust,’ followed by the goofy ‘lovesick’ phase, which is a combination of adrenaline, dopamine, and a drop in serotonin levels—which, by the way, makes our brains behave exactly like the brains of crack addicts—and ends up, if we make it through phases one and two, with ‘attachment,’ where the body produces oxytocin and vasopressin, which basically make us want to cuddle excessively. It’s science. That’s all.”
― Cynthia Hand, The Last Time We Say Goodbye

“Everybody dies, and everybody loses people they love.”
― Cynthia Hand, The Last Time We Say Goodbye

“The people we love are never truly gone.”
― Cynthia Hand, The Last Time We Say Goodbye

“Everybody dies, and everybody loses people they love-everybody-and that is not an excuse for you to fucking die. I love you, and I need you to be my mother, and I need you to have a life. So get over yourself.”
― Cynthia Hand , The Last Time We Say Goodbye

“People kept saying, ‘It’s going to be all right.’ That’s what they told me, over and over and over, like Don’t you worry, little girl, it will all be okay, because there’s got to be some bullshit overall rule of the universe that no matter what happens, no matter how bad it gets, everything will be all right in the end.”

“Yeah,” I murmur.

“And you know what I kept thinking? I kept thinking, That is a fucking lie. It is not going to be all right. It will never be all right, ever, ever again. So stop fucking lying to me.”
― Cynthia Hand, The Last Time We Say Goodbye

“I understand now that nobody could have saved Ty but Ty. There’s no one else to blame. Not you. Not me. Ty was holding all the cards.”
― Cynthia Hand, The Last Time We Say Goodbye

“We are each a part of the universe.”
― Cynthia Hand, The Last Time We Say Goodbye

“It's just high school, man. Those guys are just high school guys, and in ten years they're going to be working for people like me. I know that. I just have to make it through two more years.”
― Cynthia Hand, The Last Time We Say Goodbye

“He thinks I’m having trouble expressing my feelings, which is why he suggested I write in a journal—to get it out, he said, like in the old days when physicians used to bleed their patients in order to drain the mysterious poisons. Which almost always ended up killing them in spite of the doctors’ good intentions, I might point out.”
― Cynthia Hand, The Last Time We Say Goodbye

“A word is not simply a word.”
― Cynthia Hand, The Last Time We Say Goodbye

“Everybody feels pain”
― Cynthia Hand, The Last Time We Say Goodbye

“But if we believe that love is this powerful force that binds us together, and if this belief brings us happiness and stability in this tumultuous world, then what's the harm?”
― Cynthia Hand, The Last Time We Say Goodbye

“You look like Euler's equation," he murmured as he looked me up and down.

Nerd translation: Euler's equation is said to be the most perfect formula ever written. Simple but elegant. Beautiful.”
― Cynthia Hand, The Last Time We Say Goodbye

“But here's the thing, that futuristic society where everybody is drugged to be happy all the time no matter what happens, it's horrible, monstrous even. It's like the end of humanity, because we are supposed to feel things.”
― Cynthia Hand, The Last Time We Say Goodbye

“It's funny how sometimes you don't see the obvious things coming.”
― Cynthia Hand, The Last Time We Say Goodbye

“Thanks for picking me to be the one who got to stand in your sunshine for a while.”
― Cynthia Hand, The Last Time We Say Goodbye

“This is going to sound trite, I suppose, but you never know when it’s going to be the last time. That you hug someone. That you kiss. That you say goodbye.
I don’t know what my last words were to Ty. Probably something like, Smell you later , as I went out the door that morning. I can’t remember. It wasn’t significant, is all I know. We were never one of those families that says “I love you” at the end of every conversation, just in case.
Steven’s parents do that. When he calls to tell them he’s going to be late or something, he always ends by saying “I love you, too.” Even if he’ll see them in 10 minutes.
I used to think that was the tiniest bit lame. If you say something that often, it loses its meaning, doesn’t it? But now I understand. If the unthinkable happens—a car accident, a heart attack, whatever—at least you’ll know your last words were something positive. There’s a security in that. A comfort.”
― Cynthia Hand, The Last Time We Say Goodbye

“Where are you?" I wheeze into the floor. "Where did you go?”
― Cynthia Hand, The Last Time We Say Goodbye