The Last Summer of Us Quotes

“We are not our histories, however deep they cut or however much they scar us. Whatever guilt we feel, rightly or wrongly, whatever baggage we carry, it is not all that we are.

I did not bury myself with my mother.

I am more. I am me.”
― Maggie Harcourt, The Last Summer of Us

“Perhaps I’m not made of glass after all. Perhaps I’m made of something stronger.”
― Maggie Harcourt, The Last Summer of Us

“He smells of beginnings. Beginnings set in motion a long time ago and overlooked. Beginnings which no number of endings could bury.”
― Maggie Harcourt, The Last Summer of Us

“We started with a funeral. It ends with a wake. Our wake: Steffan, Jared and Limpet’s. The paradox that somehow worked. This is how we bow out. This is where we end. When we look back– and we will– this will be the moment we see. This is the ending and the beginning. This is all of it. All the mess and all the masks forgotten. All our scars charted and mapped. This is what it always was, what it was always going to be.”
― Maggie Harcourt, The Last Summer of Us