The Last Carolina Girl Quotes

“Sometimes family's not who you've been given. It's who you choose.”
― Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

“I pulled my blanket around me, thinking of how my life had been like a quilt—remnants of moments stitched together, some beautiful enough I’d want to be reminded of, others I’d rather discard into the scrap pile.”
― Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

“I guess that's the thing about coming home; it's not the home that's changed, it's the person coming back who has.”
― Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

“This seemed to be the place where people told me their “I’m sorrys.” But sorrys don’t heal the wounds that gather within the soul and make us the people we never knew we’d be.”
― Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

“I fell asleep there in the quiet rustling of the tree branches that swayed in the breeze. I slept alongside the souls of those I'd never known, as the stars sparkled overhead like glitter and the crickets sang their song to the Carolina girl in their midst.”
― Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

“But now I wanted nothing more than to be the girl so free that fireflies shined as her night-lights, cicadas sang her symphonies, and the forest stood as her cathedral.”
― Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

“Sometimes the strength you need comes in silence.”
― Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

“Another seven decades of life can’t make up for the ones they prevented from ever existing.”
― Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

“I knew the ghosts of the real world were scarier than the imagined ones.”
― Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

“You’re home now, Leah. You’re home.”
― Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

“Sometimes family’s not who you’ve been given. It’s who you choose.”
― Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

“while she had been trying to prevent her children from being like me, she hadn’t thought to consider maybe I wouldn’t want to be like her.”
― Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

“She’d thought motherhood was the feasible option for us girls. I guess she hadn’t heard of Dr. Foster.”
― Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

“And why I’d never be a mother.”
― Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

“ladies hurried, but they didn’t run.”
― Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

“her presence was punishment. Being alone was a gift.”
― Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

“Eugenics.”
― Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

“afraid of wanting something more.”
― Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

“I wondered where they were all headed. What they had to do.”
― Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

“I wondered if Mrs. Griffin could ever love a stray.”
― Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

“even a stray could be something to love.”
― Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

“home existed not simply in place but in the arms wrapped tightly around you.”
― Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

“it was that home existed not simply in place but in the arms wrapped tightly around you.”
― Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

“I’ve missed you.” “I’ve been right here.”
― Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

“And in that regard, the two of us became kindred spirits, two strays without a place to call home.”
― Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

“to live within a house without ever really having a home.”
― Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

“That’s your birthday present. I give you that star.”
― Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

“be strong even when I ached for something more.”
― Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

“be strong even when I ached for something more. CHAPTER”
― Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

“So many walls.”
― Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl