The Last Days of California Quotes

“It made me love them more because I knew the day would come when I would also be unrecognizable to myself.”
― Mary Miller, The Last Days of California

“I wanted to be like my sister, who made friends and mistakes easily. It was like she'd been born knowing how to live.”
― Mary Miller, The Last Days of California

“Boys liked it when you were starving, like you had starved yourself for them.”
― Mary Miller, The Last Days of California

“I don't like when people compliment my looks."

"How come?"

"I don't know," she said. And then, "Because it reminds me that I'm going to die. If someone says I have nice teeth, I think, One day they'll rot. If they say I have nice hair, I think about it falling out by the fistful.”
― Mary Miller, The Last Days of California

“I would always think the worst of people and it would keep me from them because I couldn't accept myself.”
― Mary Miller, The Last Days of California

“There were so many things I wasn't that I had difficulty defining myself, especially in relation to Elise, who was so many things.”
― Mary Miller, The Last Days of California

“I kept thinking, confusing myself, and then I stopped and listed all of the things I was sorry for- weakness of character, rebelliousness, being disrespectful to my parents, touching Gabe and letting him touch me. Wanting to be loved too much. But my desires weren't that unreasonable, and why was my body made to want things it shouldn't want?”
― Mary Miller, The Last Days of California

“I didn't have to be perfect-hardly anyone was perfect. Why did I think I had to be perfect all the time?”
― Mary Miller, The Last Days of California