Last Day Quotes

“Camille Claudel, Auguste Rodin’s model and thrown-away lover.”
― Luanne Rice, Last Day

“Did you kill Mom?”
― Luanne Rice, Last Day

“October 4.”
― Luanne Rice, Last Day

“Girls have to be dauntless,” Mathilda said. “And twice as excellent”
― Luanne Rice, Last Day

“The smart, ambitious woman he’d fallen in love with had slipped under the weight of his dark moods. She didn’t like who she was becoming—quick to please him just to stop his anger, less likely to listen to herself than to him.”
― Luanne Rice, Last Day

“The Second Coming’ by William Butler Yeats,”
― Luanne Rice, Last Day

“You have to make yourself whole—no one else can.”
― Luanne Rice, Last Day

“It still had electricity and running water, the stove worked, the coffee maker could still brew, the refrigerator kept food cold. But the house had become a phantom. It was no longer living and breathing, surrounding the family and making them feel safe. It wafted along, an untethered spirit, drained of everything it once had been.”
― Luanne Rice, Last Day

“Nothing is solid; nothing is black and white. Love is fluid, and so is peace, without shape or edges, fresh water flowing from the river’s mouth into the sea.”
― Luanne Rice, Last Day

“The Tibetan Book of the Dead.”
― Luanne Rice, Last Day

“The artist used houses and barns and land along the Connecticut River as his subjects.” Just as Ben Morrison had used the island and the brook. “Did Nason know your grandmother?” “Yes. She said he was the most poetic artist in America. She meant it literally. Some of his prints illustrated books”
― Luanne Rice, Last Day

“Murder didn’t just take one life; it stole the essence, will, and ease from everyone it touched. It took their old lives and left them to make their way in a completely new and uncertain world.”
― Luanne Rice, Last Day

“But they’d been blocked by the trauma, a force field created by the violence of that day, impermeable to words. Each of them occupied her own dark solitude; feelings could break through, but language couldn’t.”
― Luanne Rice, Last Day

“He was so charming. Even Kate was charmed by him, only back then she had called it love. She had adored her dad—he could do no wrong.”
― Luanne Rice, Last Day

“She’d thought of her own family, of how happy she had thought they were. In some ways, they were completely different from the Tyrones. Her family didn’t suffer from addiction or alcoholism. No one had a fatal disease. Instead of two sons, there were two daughters. Her father had not been a drunk, but he had been a liar and a cheat. He had acted the role of good husband and father but was actually a different person entirely.”
― Luanne Rice, Last Day

“Willard Metcalf, Matilda Browne, Benjamin Morrison, William Merritt Chase, Henry Ward Ranger, and William Chadwick”
― Luanne Rice, Last Day

“exquisitely intimate Marmottan. Mathilda rented a car, and they drove out of town to visit Claude Monet’s home and gardens at Giverny and the port town of Honfleur, the site of so many Impressionist paintings. The vacation was centered on art. They visited the Normandy landing beaches and stood on the cliff looking across the English Channel, imagining the boatloads of Allied forces ready to storm the beaches.”
― Luanne Rice, Last Day

“exquisitely intimate Marmottan.”
― Luanne Rice, Last Day

“Louvre, the Musée d’Orsay, Centre Pompidou, Cluny, Musée Jacquemart-André,”
― Luanne Rice, Last Day

“Childe Hassam.”
― Luanne Rice, Last Day

“What had happened to the girl from Bard? That strong, funny, sexy, smart, sure-of-herself person named Nicola? How could someone so dynamic have turned into a mouse? She was positive that if she ever met her old self, she’d be scared of her. But”
― Luanne Rice, Last Day

“You’re being naive,” her mother said. “You’d rather believe in a cursed painting than see the truth. Your boyfriend killed his wife.”
― Luanne Rice, Last Day

“Her mother didn’t turn around. Nicola was glad, because she didn’t want to see the shame and disappointment in her mother’s eyes. Nicola had fallen in love with a married man and had had his baby. In her mother’s view, Nicola had ruined her life as well as Beth’s and her family’s. Her mother would never understand how Pete had helped her feel like part of an alien world, how he had taken her under his wing and assured her she belonged, that she was as good as all the rich people who bought art. He had come from a working-class background just like Nicola’s, and it was as if he sensed every insecurity she had. He gave her what she needed—a level of acceptance and understanding—even before she knew she needed it. He was a magician who could read her mind. He had made her feel adored.”
― Luanne Rice, Last Day

“Drala warrior, a protector deity in the Tibetan art Nicola had studied at Yale.”
― Luanne Rice, Last Day

“Often suspects threw out a fact, seemed willing to discuss something difficult or embarrassing. In fact, coming in for questioning at all was frequently wanting to learn what the police knew. “I’d like to know more,” Reid said. “Well, feel free to talk to Nicola. She’s expecting it. She’ll tell you the same thing I will: we all got along. Beth wasn’t thrilled at first—not at all. I could have handled it better, I admit. But Beth was a grown-up. She knows people make mistakes.” “So having an affair with Nicola was a mistake?” Reid asked. “Twisting my words,” Pete said with a sarcastic smile, shaking a finger at him. “Was I doing that? Hmm,” Reid said. “If you would simply stick to the facts as I am presenting them to you, if you actually listened to me, you would do better—you’d rule me out and solve the case faster, because you’d start looking in other places.” He grabbed the water bottle and drank. Reid was silent, watching Pete’s body language change. The finger shaking, the fact he straightened his posture and rewarded himself with a long drink of water. If the interview was a chess game to Pete, he felt he was winning.”
― Luanne Rice, Last Day

“but I’ll be honest was an indication of guilt, right up there with ly words.”
― Luanne Rice, Last Day

“Reid took note: the first two ly words. He’d found that suspects who turned out to be guilty tended to use adverbs, thinking they were being more convincing. He also noticed the way Pete emphasized “the right kind of investigation,” marking his territory as a genius and the smartest person in the room. Reid would use that.”
― Luanne Rice, Last Day

“Morrison”
― Luanne Rice, Last Day

“Wadsworth Atheneum.”
― Luanne Rice, Last Day

“Sam said. “He goes to the soup kitchen.”
― Luanne Rice, Last Day