On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon Quotes

“This has been such a glorious afternoon -- my heart would not weep if I did not live to see another.”
― Kaye Gibbons, On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon

“Like the servants, we, his children, were beneath him, and so we were left oftentimes standing with his lies in our hands like baffling presents, not knowing what we were to do with this collection of things, his words, whether they should be used or displayed or hidden like a broken toy in a corner of the nursery armoire." -- Emma Garnet on describing her father, page 2”
― Kaye Gibbons, On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon