The Last Bathing Beauty Quotes

“Betty skittered and kept up this time, shuffling through the grass, glad she’d worn her old saddle shoes. “I didn’t say he was an angel. I just mean, I trust him. I was much later than I said I’d be.” Betty felt the same jolt of tension in her neck as when Nannie announced Tillie and Joe’s annual visits”
― Amy Sue Nathan, The Last Bathing Beauty

“Though the betrayal would stick to Boop like a burr, relentless and prickly, she’d continue to pluck it off each time she noticed it.”
― Amy Sue Nathan, The Last Bathing Beauty

“You should own all pieces of your life, good or bad,” Hannah said. “They make up who you are.”
― Amy Sue Nathan, The Last Bathing Beauty

“But you came back at the same time, after so long, and that’s when all heck breaks loose in my life? It’s like the universe conspired against me.” Doris leaned her head back and chuckled. “You don’t think the timing is a coincidence, do you? The universe didn’t conspire against you. No sirree. The universe armed you.”
― Amy Sue Nathan, The Last Bathing Beauty

“Haven High. Maybe because Zaide always wore tailor-made suits,”
― Amy Sue Nathan, The Last Bathing Beauty

“But she had to turn around. For Betty’s sake. For her own. For what was, and wasn’t, and what might have been.”
― Amy Sue Nathan, The Last Bathing Beauty

“for years, she looked for her parents everywhere—in crowds on the beach, at High Holiday services, on walks, in her dreams that took her under the sea and up in the sky. She looked for Tillie and Joe in everyone, especially strangers she noticed from the back who were the right height and build, or almost.”
― Amy Sue Nathan, The Last Bathing Beauty

“They each sat in a chair without talking. Words weren’t necessary to keep someone company.”
― Amy Sue Nathan, The Last Bathing Beauty

“And you’re sure you want to have the baby? Keep the baby?”
― Amy Sue Nathan, The Last Bathing Beauty