The Last Forever Quotes

“Endings and beginnings sit so close to each other that it’s sometimes impossible to tell which is which.”
― Deb Caletti, The Last Forever

“True love, the good, beautiful, one-and-only kind, the kind between loving friends and family and partners who are mostly just trying hard to do their best, it manages to overlook some pieces of its story. It overlooks what he can’t give you or how she failed you or what mistakes he made when he was struggling. It stays steady at its center. It evolves, through drought and storm. It grows. It survives.”
― Deb Caletti, The Last Forever

“Usually, I set one foot in a library and I feel my own internal volume lower. A library is a physical equivalent of a sigh. It’s the silence, sure, but it’s also the certainty of all those books, the way they stand side by side with their still, calm conviction. It’s the reassurance of knowledge in the face of confusion.”
― Deb Caletti, The Last Forever

“There's grief and then there's the loneliness of grief. The way it's just yours and yours alone.”
― Deb Caletti, The Last Forever

“It is one of those moments where there is so much to say that there is nothing to say, no adequate words, anyway, to speak it all.”
― Deb Caletti, The Last Forever

“Even when times are dark, the darkest, even when you are sure that life as you know it is over, there are still things that last.”
― Deb Caletti, The Last Forever

“Running away can also be running to.”
― Deb Caletti, The Last Forever

“Sorry, sorry, sorry. Oh, you can pile on as many as you want, but the guilt is still there, like that pea under all those mattresses.”
― Deb Caletti, The Last Forever

“The past is a good place for the past.”
― Deb Caletti, The Last Forever

“All those maybes are just hope looking for a place to land.”
― Deb Caletti, The Last Forever

“True love, even if just in your head, can make you forget how badly things actually suck.”
― Deb Caletti, The Last Forever

“but truthfully, a kiss needs something more important than curiosity. A kiss needs desire. A kiss should rocket past the excitement level of eating lettuce.”
― Deb Caletti, The Last Forever

“Prunus persica: peach. While the fruit of this plant is juicy and sweet, the seed-like the seeds of cherries, apples, plums and apricots-is full of poison. Yes, that pit you throw out is a little woody ball packed with cyanide. The Seed Moral of this story? Be careful of what's at the center-yours or anyone else's.”
― Deb Caletti, The Last Forever

“Dread begins to inch in. No. Dread isn't one of those subtle emotions. It moves in and takes over, and then it drips and hands, like Spanish moss.”
― Deb Caletti, The Last Forever

“I hunt around in my purse. There are no more caramels or fuzzy Altoids, but I find what might be a cough drop. I hold it out to Henry, and he gives me a scared look, like I've just pulled out a knife.”
― Deb Caletti, The Last Forever

“The sky is only now turning morning pink. I have that leaving-early-on-a trip feeling, where you're tired but excited and you get to see what's going on in the hours when you're usually still asleep.”
― Deb Caletti, The Last Forever

“Good can sit in the distance, just beyond your view, waiting, until you go toward it.”
― Deb Caletti, The Last Forever

“Endings and beginnings sit so close to each other that it's sometimes impossible to tell which is which.”
― Deb Caletti, The Last Forever

“What should never be forgotten is this: Even when times are dark, the darkest, even when you are sure that life as you know it is over, there are still things that last.”
― Deb Caletti, The Last Forever

“A library is a physical equivalent of a sigh.”
― Deb Caletti, The Last Forever

“I like those very realistic paintings that look like photographs, or novels that are so much like actual life that you feel understood.”
― Deb Caletti, The Last Forever

“Fury and devastation are fraternal twins.”
― Deb Caletti, The Last Forever

“Usually, I set one foot in a library and I feel my own internal volume lower. A library is a physical equivalent of a sigh. It's the silence, sure, but it's also the certainty of all those books, the way they stand side by side with their still, calm conviction. It's the reassurance of knowledge in the face of confusion.”
― Deb Caletti, The Last Forever

“I don't stop to imagine home and the people in it, because this is so far from home, I am another person entirely.”
― Deb Caletti, The Last Forever

“Dread begins to inch in. No. Dread isn't one of those subtle emotions. It moves in and takes over, and then it drips and hangs, like Spanish moss.”
― Deb Caletti, The Last Forever

“There. But then I change my mind. I think of us poor, old human beings doing the best we can, struggling with being either too much of who we are or too little.”
― Deb Caletti, The Last Forever

“Once again, I am translucent. I could break against rocks. I am ten thousand miles down and ten thousand miles across and around and it's too far and too long and too deep, but there is no black-haired body with wide, soft brown eyes looking into mine and seeing exactly who I am.”
― Deb Caletti, The Last Forever

“And once again, that high, domed sky makes me feel a wide vista of emotion, and once again I could weep at an overturned chair or a torn page, or today, Larry's scruffy beard and the ink on his fingers that I can see from here.”
― Deb Caletti, The Last Forever

“And, oh, I am riding such a high, full wave of love that I have to fall. Of course I have to. Of course, because life and love is joy and pain, fullness and emptiness, highs and lows, tide in, tide out. I will have to fall hard from that high wave, smack right down on my sorry face, but we are not at that part of the story yet.”
― Deb Caletti, The Last Forever

“What is this?"
"Plankton, basically," Henry says. "A plant. A bio luminescent plankton called dinoflagellates."
Oh, Henry. He's so romantic.”
― Deb Caletti, The Last Forever