The Last Letter Quotes

“Sometimes bad things happen. And there’s no blame to be placed. You can’t reason with the universe, no matter how sound your logic is … We are imperfect people made that way by an imperfect world, and we don’t always get a say in what shapes us.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Last Letter

“We can either breathe through the pain or we can let it shape us.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Last Letter

“I’d rather be great for a few people than be mediocre for a bunch.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Last Letter

“Love – when it was right – was enough to save you. Beckett taught me that every single day. And ours was more than enough.
And so was I.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Last Letter

“Don’t let go,” she whispered. Her hands were still between us, but she wasn’t pushing me away, they were simply resting on my pecs. If anything, she leaned in. “I’d forgotten what this felt like.”
“Being hugged?” My voice was sandpaper-rough.
“Being held together.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Last Letter

“Hope is good. Feel it. Because we have no idea what's coming around the corner. You have to take the good when it comes, because the bad isn't going to give you a choice.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Last Letter

“Is this what it feel like?” he whispered so quietly that I leaned down.
“What it feels like?” I asked.
“Having a Dad?”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Last Letter

“I was here for as long as Ella would let me stay. Because somewhere between letter number one and letter number twenty-four, I’d fallen in love with her.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Last Letter

“I’m in love with you. I was in love with you before we slept together, and I’ll be in love with you for the rest of my life if my heart is any indication. Nothing about last night changed that. I’m me. You’re you. We’re…whatever you want us to be.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Last Letter

“Someone once told me that swearing is a poor excuse for a crap vocabulary. It makes you look low class and uneducated.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Last Letter

“I would do anything for you.” His eyes locked onto mine in the dashboard lights, intense and a little hurt. “What is it going to take for you to believe me? To trust me? You want my background checked? Do it. You want my credit score? Awesome. My bank account? I’ll add you on. You have my word, my body, my time, and I’m standing here offering my last name. What else can I give you?”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Last Letter

“Man, it was a slice of hell to fall in love with someone else’s kid when you couldn’t claim the love of his mother – or her mother.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Last Letter

“This wasn’t heartbreak. Or sorrow.
It was the utter desolation of my soul.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Last Letter

“It’s a good thing, though. Missing him. Grief means you had someone worth grieving.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Last Letter

“Dogs talk all the time, you just have to speak their language.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Last Letter

“Time moved slower when you missed the person you love.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Last Letter

“Play my position, show no fear, and tonight we dine on the souls of our enemies!”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Last Letter

“We are imperfect people made that way by an imperfect world, and we don’t always get a say in what shapes us.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Last Letter

“I’m twenty-five years old, trying to run a growing business, raise twins on my own, and in the middle of…” My hands flailed, motioning to everything on my desk “…cancer. I don’t’ have time to go chasing romance. I don’t care how good-looking he is.” Or how massive his arms were. None of that mattered.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Last Letter

“You’re free to choose, but you’re not free of the consequences of your choice.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Last Letter

“I didn’t know how to trust the appearance of sunshine after living in a perpetual hurricane.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Last Letter

“Like someone picks up your life and shakes it like a snow globe,” Ella offered. “It seems to take forever for the pieces to settle, and then they’re never in the same place.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Last Letter

“Is this what it feels like?” he whispered so quietly that I leaned down. “What it feels like?” I asked. “Having a dad?” He tilted his head slightly.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Last Letter

“How do you say goodbye to the person who shared your soul? Who had been with you through every heartbeat of your life?”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Last Letter

“She looks like such a docile little thing. You’d never guess she’d be capable of ripping someone apart.” “She’s like any other woman in that regard, ma’am.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Last Letter

“As you get bigger, you’ll see that it’s not how you handle the wins that make you a good man, it’s how you handle the losses.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Last Letter

“I was done for. The kid could have asked me to deliver him the moon and I would have found a way.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Last Letter

“Funny thing about broken hearts—only the living have them.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Last Letter

“Do you know what’s undatable? Someone who’s selfish, or consumed with the tiny things in life that don’t mean anything.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Last Letter

“Sometimes you have to leave so you can know what it is you left. You don’t really value something until you’ve lost it.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Last Letter