The Last House Guest Quotes

“Promises made without clarity of thought still counted. A careless yes and you were bound.”
― Megan Miranda, The Last House Guest

“But that was the thing about loving someone—it only counted when you knew their flaws and did it anyway.”
― Megan Miranda, The Last House Guest

“I’ve known enough of loss to accept that grief may lose its sharpness with time, but memory only tightens. Moments replay.”
― Megan Miranda, The Last House Guest

“Surrounded by the mountains and the ocean, you became more than you were elsewhere.”
― Megan Miranda, The Last House Guest

“But people must’ve realized what I too soon understood: that grief did not create anything that had not existed before. It only heightened what was already there. Removing the binds that once shielded me.”
― Megan Miranda, The Last House Guest

“Ambition wasn’t just in the work. Ambition, I believed, was tinged with a sort of desperation, something closer to panic. Like a dormant switch deep inside that could be forced only by necessity. Something to push up against until, finally, you caught.”
― Megan Miranda, The Last House Guest

“I heard once that you can’t dream a face until you’ve seen it in real life. That the figures in dreams are either real people or, blurry and unformed, things you can’t recall when you wake.”
― Megan Miranda, The Last House Guest

“you had to take great risks for great rewards. That to change your life, to truly change it, you had to be willing to lose.”
― Megan Miranda, The Last House Guest

“At night, from the inside,” I told him, “the only thing you can see is your own reflection.”
― Megan Miranda, The Last House Guest

“We were invisible, as we were taught to be.”
― Megan Miranda, The Last House Guest

“Torn between two worlds—the one in front of her and the one in her head that she was continually trying to uncover.”
― Megan Miranda, The Last House Guest

“Bianca could lull you into complacency with her praise, only to strike when your guard was down.”
― Megan Miranda, The Last House Guest

“Their world was old money that said you didn’t have to show it to prove it. The clothes didn’t matter; it was the details, the way you carried it, and I could never get it just right.”
― Megan Miranda, The Last House Guest

“Reservation for Parker Loman,” I told the hostess. There was always a thrill in giving the Loman name, watching the subtle shift in an expression, the quick accommodation. She smiled as she led me to the table, in service to something greater than me”
― Megan Miranda, The Last House Guest

“Maybe this was my downfall—always too trusting in the end; choosing someone else over the solitude. Yet again thinking people had anything but their own interests at heart.”
― Megan Miranda, The Last House Guest

“I was. In one way or another, I was never more myself than right then. Desperately, terrifyingly, unapologetically myself. And I’d just discovered the power of it, how it wreaked destruction, not only on myself but on others.”
― Megan Miranda, The Last House Guest

“Show me a chip in the demeanor and watch me fall. I never met a flaw I didn’t love. The hidden insecurity, the brief uncertainty. The waver behind the arrogance.”
― Megan Miranda, The Last House Guest

“the thing about loving someone—it only counted when you knew their flaws and did it anyway.”
― Megan Miranda, The Last House Guest

“Ambition, I believed, was tinged with a sort of desperation, something closer to panic. Like a dormant switch deep inside that could be forced only by necessity. Something to push up against until, finally, you caught.”
― Megan Miranda, The Last House Guest

“The Parker I once knew was unflappable, but loss can manifest in other ways. Signs of age, of illness, of pain. A tremor in the fingers, nervous system on overdrive. A wound slow to heal.”
― Megan Miranda, The Last House Guest

“A car on a dark, winding road. A slick of ice on the sidewalk. The edge of the cliffs, the current, the rocks.”
― Megan Miranda, The Last House Guest

“the memory of my mother’s words in my ear as she worked, telling me to look again, to tell her what I saw, even though it always looked exactly the same to me.”
― Megan Miranda, The Last House Guest

“There were pieces of others who gave everyone shape, of course there were.”
― Megan Miranda, The Last House Guest

“this fact—We locked the”
― Megan Miranda, The Last House Guest

“that grief did not create anything that had not existed before. It only heightened what was already there.”
― Megan Miranda, The Last House Guest

“the idea that you didn’t have to apologize. Not for what you’d done and not for who you were.”
― Megan Miranda, The Last House Guest