The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes Quotes

“Today I’m alive and here, and now it’s my job to fill my daughter’s world with love, happiness and security. She doesn’t need Disney Land, she just needs me, and I’ll do my best so that when I’m gone she’ll have a head full of memories and a heart full of love.”
― Anna McPartlin, The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes

“was a teenager she’d bought a red clay Buddha in a charity shop, and when her mother asked her why she wanted it, she told her she preferred to look at a fat god laughing rather than a skinny one dying. Rabbit never needed to believe in any god to marvel at the world, to feel joy, hope, love and contentment. Rabbit lived in the moment. She didn’t know what came next, nor did she care. It was likely that death meant a full stop and that didn’t scare her. In fact, when she thought about it, the notion of eternity was far more worrying”
― Anna McPartlin, The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes

“you’d speak for Rabbit.’ ‘OK,’ she said. ‘It’s a bullshit idea. Whatever about your ma”
― Anna McPartlin, The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes

“We could always drive the car into the sea,’ Molly said, out of nowhere, as though she was reading his mind. ‘It would be unfair on the kids but at least we’d get to go first, the way Nature fucking intended,’ she added. ‘I’ve always liked Dollymount Strand,’ he said. ‘Me too.’ ‘Howth is pretty at this time of year. And there are some lovely spots in Wicklow.”
― Anna McPartlin, The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes