The Last Summer Quotes

“How many times had she crept into them as a little girl, playing hide and seek with Mhairi and Flora and their many brothers? Why couldn't one of those boys have grown into a man who made the very edges of her world flutter and fray? Why had God sent a man she could never have, to own her heart?”
― Karen Swan, The Last Summer

“forcing her mind away from the past, even though the shadows slunk over her at every turn.”
― Karen Swan, The Last Summer

“Their gazes locked again and she had it again – that sensation of falling, far scarier than anything she’d ever known on a rope; a tension seemed to exist between them that paid no heed to barriers the factor had warned must keep them apart.”
― Karen Swan, The Last Summer