The Last Safe Place Quotes

“Butterflies”
― Ninie Hammon, The Last Safe Place

“She held her breath, strained to hear with every ounce of concentration”
― Ninie Hammon, The Last Safe Place

“WHEN GABRIELLA CARMICHAEL’S EYES SUDDENLY POPPED OPEN, pain and blood were still several minutes away, tucked securely into the glove box of the future, snug as a map of Idaho.”
― Ninie Hammon, The Last Safe Place

“Let’s git us some niggers.”
― Ninie Hammon, The Last Safe Place

“Crazy people don’t make sense. He’s … evil.” “And”
― Ninie Hammon, The Last Safe Place

“How do you forgive yourself? It doesn’t help to know you should. It isn’t about what you know in your head. It’s bigger than that. Uglier. Meaner.” “Ees”
― Ninie Hammon, The Last Safe Place

“A thing as important in your life as what could kill you had ought to have a name but no sense wasting a good one on it. Then”
― Ninie Hammon, The Last Safe Place

“A little grumpy, aren’t we? You’re just afraid I might find out you’ve got a heart of gold.” “So does a hard-boiled egg.” Ty”
― Ninie Hammon, The Last Safe Place

“I move fast for a old man. If I’s gone live long enough for a walker, I’d need one with a airbag.”
― Ninie Hammon, The Last Safe Place

“Oh, he will not cause her so much pain that enduring it makes her strong. No, just enough, a sweet agony tart as lemon juice, an ever-present debilitating, demoralizing torment. Just enough so she cowers in his presence and cringes when he draws near her. He”
― Ninie Hammon, The Last Safe Place

“Life didn’t have nothing to hold over your head when it had done took everything that mattered.”
― Ninie Hammon, The Last Safe Place

“Theo was the only one of the three of them who wasn’t afraid. Once you’d done your living, played the parts you’s assigned, wasn’t no reason to be afraid.”
― Ninie Hammon, The Last Safe Place

“With her heart banging against the walls of her chest like a sperm whale in a fish tank, Gabriella struggled to look at every square inch of the room at the same time.”
― Ninie Hammon, The Last Safe Place

“a voice from that maddeningly reasonable part of her mind began to plead its case before the High Court of Common Sense.”
― Ninie Hammon, The Last Safe Place

“Imagine how deep the ocean would be if it wasn’t full of sponges.”
― Ninie Hammon, The Last Safe Place

“Evil is the petri dish in which the cells of war divide and multiply; hatred is the soil in which it grows.”
― Ninie Hammon, The Last Safe Place

“If you’re holding your breath waiting for me to feel sorry for you, sweetheart,” he said aloud, “you may now resume your regularly scheduled respirations.”
― Ninie Hammon, The Last Safe Place

“The current state of the world is testimony to the cowardice of the many and the futile courage of the few. Everywhere on the globe, evil thrives in the soil of denial, pruned by cynicism, fertilized by disbelief, watered by inaction.”
― Ninie Hammon, The Last Safe Place

“The band fell apart because of the absence of his presence; her marriage fell apart because of the presence of his absence.”
― Ninie Hammon, The Last Safe Place

“A clap of thunder rumbled brutally loud and she jumped, uttered a little peep of a scream. She scooted to the edge of the bed and stared out her bedroom window where writhing lightning torched the night sky behind the silver worms of rain squiggling down the glass.”
― Ninie Hammon, The Last Safe Place

“With her heart banging against the walls of her chest like a sperm whale in a fish tank,”
― Ninie Hammon, The Last Safe Place

“He paused, struggled to smile and actually managed it. “In the words of that great theologian Dory the Fish, ‘just keep swimming, just keep swimming, just keep swimming ...”
― Ninie Hammon, The Last Safe Place

“Would-have-beens were dangerous waters. Swim out far in them and a riptide picks you up and carries you out to sea.”
― Ninie Hammon, The Last Safe Place

“scars tell us where we have been, but they do not have to control where we are going.”
― Ninie Hammon, The Last Safe Place

“I really do believe that we have a much too narrow view of what could happen in our lives—both good and bad. We cruise along on autopilot, assuming that the way things are today will last forever. Only it does not work out that way.”
― Ninie Hammon, The Last Safe Place

“The light then scrubs the darkened skies awakens deer and antelope. And time breathes life in slow, sweet sighs perfumed by jasmine, love and hope.”
― Ninie Hammon, The Last Safe Place

“I used to question why God allows suffering,” he said. His Spanish accent was very pronounced and it struck her that perhaps he had to concentrate to keep it out of his speech, that it took an effort he didn’t, or couldn’t, apply when he was upset. “But I do not do that anymore.” “Suffering makes sense to you?” “No, I do not understand eet. But I do understand that ‘why me?’ ees not the right question.” “What is the right question?” “Why not me?” He caught the geode and set it down on the porch between them. “Things happen for a reason, but knowing the reason does not change anything.” He turned to face her. “It still hurts.”
― Ninie Hammon, The Last Safe Place

“Do not sweat the petty stuff and do not pet the sweaty stuff.”
― Ninie Hammon, The Last Safe Place

“Open your eyes, recognize goodness and evil and choose your side. Or keep your eyes closed and see neither. The current state of the world is testimony to the cowardice of the many and the futile courage of the few. Everywhere on the globe, evil thrives in the soil of denial, pruned by cynicism, fertilized by disbelief, watered by inaction.”
― Ninie Hammon, The Last Safe Place

“for water in a bottle. “I’ve had a Snuggie all my life,” he’d said. “Just didn’t give it no advertising department name.” Ty had taken the bait. “What’d you call it, Grandpa Slappy?” “Called it Wearin’ My Bathrobe Backwards.”
― Ninie Hammon, The Last Safe Place