The Last Girl Quotes

“One could say it is our destiny, our fate within the human condition to always hold onto hope of redemption even if it is the last thread that connects us to life.”
― Joe Hart, The Last Girl

“The second you give up is when you start to die. You have to fight to make it.”
― Joe Hart, The Last Girl

“There are some things in life that don’t have to be experienced to form an opinion of.”
― Joe Hart, The Last Girl

“There are prisons of all kinds, Zoey, they take every shape imaginable. They aren’t just concrete, and steel, and stone. They’re everywhere. And even when you’ve escaped one, there’s always another waiting. But you must remember that the first step to freedom doesn’t always start with picking a lock.” He reaches out and touches her temple. “It begins here.” Slowly”
― Joe Hart, The Last Girl

“Fear feeds the worst in all of us. It drives the most despicable of our natures to the surface.”
― Joe Hart, The Last Girl

“Time helps too, you know. It softens the edges, but memories almost always slice you open a little.”
― Joe Hart, The Last Girl

“fear was overshadowed by the awe of something beautiful in the chaos.”
― Joe Hart, The Last Girl

“because something as precious as a secret should always have a name. In”
― Joe Hart, The Last Girl

“Pain is an unfortunate necessity in life. It shapes us, defines us, helps us learn.”
― Joe Hart, The Last Girl

“Free. What a magical word, and how wonderful it feels on her tongue.”
― Joe Hart, The Last Girl

“It’s like he’s not really a person, just something wearing human skin as a disguise.”
― Joe Hart, The Last Girl

“They kept me controlled just because I was born a girl.”
― Joe Hart, The Last Girl

“Maybe it’s because he’s right. There is something wrong with her.”
― Joe Hart, The Last Girl

“Underneath all the hurt was a deep love. That’s rare in this world now.”
― Joe Hart, The Last Girl

“Hatred is blind, rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.”
― Joe Hart, The Last Girl

“The greater good isn’t what they enforce with rules and guns and punishment. It’s being free to decide for ourselves what’s best for each of us.”
― Joe Hart, The Last Girl

“As much anger as I harbor toward him for leaving you, I understand it just as well. And understanding breeds empathy, and empathy leads to forgiveness, which is the ultimate gift you can give someone. Sometimes it’s the hardest gift to give to yourself.”
― Joe Hart, The Last Girl

“be safe. She’s snapped from her thoughts as the soft rumbling of the elevator comes from behind the”
― Joe Hart, The Last Girl

“then, know that I love you with all my heart and that there won’t be a day that goes by I won’t think of you. Yours always, Lee She refolds the paper and places it by her side again. The trees shush one another, and a bird trills somewhere farther down the mountain. Ian and Rita approach the house, their hands stained with the rich soil. Seamus trails behind them, huge head hanging low. “Would you like some water?” Ian asks on his way by. “No thanks.”
― Joe Hart, The Last Girl

“sun moves between two of the biggest trees in the yard and shines onto the place where she sits. Slowly she pulls a piece of paper from where it rests beside her in the chair. She unfolds it and reads the words again, even though she memorized them the morning after Lee sat in the moonlight next to her bed. The letter had been tucked beneath her pillow, and the moment she saw it, she knew. Zoey, I know you won’t understand why, but I have to leave. The world is too strange”
― Joe Hart, The Last Girl

“Zoey inhales, a shriek building in her lungs, but the person steps forward, letting the light wash over his smiling features.”
― Joe Hart, The Last Girl

“Fear feeds the worst in all of us. It drives the most despicable of our natures to the surface. The”
― Joe Hart, The Last Girl

“The flavor is sour, the texture gooey and gelatinous. The fish had been rotting, she knows it now. She can taste it. Zoey”
― Joe Hart, The Last Girl

“She hates herself a little for it. Zoey can smell him now, an acrid tang of body odor mixed with the last tinges of vanilla that all the clothes are washed in. The scent makes her want to vomit. “Pretty,”
― Joe Hart, The Last Girl

“They are somewhere safe, or they are dead. And death is a sort of safety in itself.”
― Joe Hart, The Last Girl

“opinion”
― Joe Hart, The Last Girl

“strips open one of her last pieces of gum and pops it in his mouth.”
― Joe Hart, The Last Girl

“The Phoenix is a mythical creature from Greek lore often portrayed as a fiery and noble bird. It is said the Phoenix could live thousands of years before succumbing to death, and typically it died and was reborn through fire. The sentiment is not uncommon. The idea of a second chance, of rebirth, of renewing one’s hopes and dreams. One could say it is our destiny, our fate within the human condition to always hold onto hope of redemption even if it is the last thread that connects us to life.”
― Joe Hart, The Last Girl

“Fell out of a tree and almost crushed my boy Merrill here,” Eli says, his deep voice booming easily throughout the room. “That’s why we call him Newton.” Zoey”
― Joe Hart, The Last Girl

“There are prisons of all kinds, Zoey, they take every shape imaginable. They aren’t just concrete, and steel, and stone. They’re everywhere. And even when you’ve escaped one, there’s always another waiting. But you must remember that the first step to freedom doesn’t always start with picking a lock.” He reaches out and touches her temple. “It begins here.”
― Joe Hart, The Last Girl