The Last Quotes

“I was small. And sometimes disappointing. But I knew I could be brave as well. I was not afraid to be the first to die. I just did not want to be the last to live. I did not want to be the endling.”
― Katherine Applegate, The Last

“Nonetheless, although dairnes don’t lie, we do sometimes . . . hope.”
― Katherine Applegate, The Last

“families cowering together,”
― Katherine Applegate, The Last

“She’s so young. So small.” My mother’s voice trembled. “I had a dream, a terrible dream. They came for us. I dreamed she was the first to die.”

“The first to die.” My father was silent for a long while.

I remembered lying motionless, silent, scarcely breathing, waiting for more.

“I, too, had a dream,” my father said at last, sighing. “Worse in some ways. I dreamed”—his voice caught—“I dreamed she was the last to live.”

“No,” my mother said, and I could hear that she was softly sobbing. “Don’t even think such a thing.”
― Katherine Applegate, The Last

“Byx,”
― Katherine Applegate, The Last

“Those six—humans, dairnes, felivets, natites, terramants, and raptidons—had once been considered the most powerful in our land. But now all of them—even the humans—were controlled by the despotic Murdano.”
― Katherine Applegate, The Last

“sarcasm”—a style of speech whereby a person could say something that was the opposite of the truth and yet, oddly, not be considered a liar.”
― Katherine Applegate, The Last

“governing”
― Katherine Applegate, The Last