Last Day Quotes

“The way they’re all clumped together in one spot. It looks like a microscopic slide of bacteria. That’s the human race. A sophisticated disease.”
― Domenica Ruta, Last Day: A Novel

“How much can we live without? At what point does isolation force us into connection? At what point does something become everything?”
― Domenica Ruta, Last Day: A Novel

“her sadness quivering in her eyes like the last dream to bring you from sleep into morning.”
― Domenica Ruta, Last Day: A Novel

“Earth rolling away from the sun as a lover in a bed.”
― Domenica Ruta, Last Day: A Novel

“understanding things and believing they were true were not the work of the same organ,”
― Domenica Ruta, Last Day: A Novel

“Pretty was something you could hear, and this woman didn’t have it.”
― Domenica Ruta, Last Day: A Novel

“this whole stupid holiday was nothing more than a political distraction from the real destruction and cruelty happening worldwide; everyone was celebrating an imaginary apocalypse while schools filled with children were bombed by dictators and pipelines leaked millions of tons of crude oil into the sea. It was so obvious it was stupid, and Sarah hated herself for being sucked into the myth, for being so afraid.”
― Domenica Ruta, Last Day: A Novel

“He believed he was among a minority of humans organically hardwired toward contentment, and that the unhappiness of others was a maladaptive trait inherited from primitive ancestors—to hold on to bad memories at the expense of the good ones.”
― Domenica Ruta, Last Day: A Novel

“We grow imperceptibly every minute of every day.”
― Domenica Ruta, Last Day: A Novel

“Babies knew everything. Their eyes quivered with the opaque knowledge of the world. That’s why they cried so much. They were trying to tell us, and no one believed them.”
― Domenica Ruta, Last Day: A Novel

“They went back to normal, to their normal, in which fear and righteousness attended the mundane business of living.”
― Domenica Ruta, Last Day: A Novel

“You can’t stop the demons of isolation from knocking on your door, he’d say, but you can stop inviting them in for coffee.”
― Domenica Ruta, Last Day: A Novel

“Planet Earth is blue and there’s nothing I can do”
― Domenica Ruta, Last Day: A Novel