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“As for Holmes, she disappeared into her magician’s trunk and swallowed the key. There would be no prying her out, not until the big reveal.” (The Last of August Quotes)
Brittany Cavallaro
The Last of August
“Even if I wasn’t in love with her, I couldn’t see myself loving anyone else.”
Brittany Cavallaro
The Last of August
“I imagine she’d do anything to keep you alive. But giving her your heart is like handing a glass figurine to a child. She’ll flip it over, peer through it like a lends. Shake it to see if it makes a sound. In the end, it will slip her hands and shatter. In the end, it’s your fault. You were the one who gave it to her.”
Brittany Cavallaro
The Last of August
“I tended to spend too much time with my favorite things, loved them too hard until I wore them down. After a while, they became more like a shorthand for who I was and less like things I actually enjoyed.”
Brittany Cavallaro
The Last of August
“I’m a teenage girl. He is my boy best friend. We would be everything to each other until we couldn’t.”
Brittany Cavallaro
The Last of August
“It seemed like a good idea at the time.” “That’ll be written on a few tombstones before this is over”
Brittany Cavallaro
The Last of August
“It’s strange to grieve for your former self, and still I think it’s something that any girl understands. I’ve shed so many skins, I hardly know what I am now—muscle, maybe, or just memory. Perhaps just the will to keep going.”
Brittany Cavallaro
The Last of August
“Maybe this is what happened when you built a friendship on a foundation of mutual disaster. It collapsed the second things righted themselves, left you desperate for the next earthquake.”
Brittany Cavallaro
The Last of August
“She smiled at me, that one particular smile I hardly ever saw, the one that could open padlocks, Yale locks, bank vaults, the one that was a trapdoor down into everything.”
Brittany Cavallaro
The Last of August
“There needs to be a German compound word for feeling both guilty and enraged.”
Brittany Cavallaro
The Last of August
“There’s not a lot you can control, you know. Where you’re born. Who your family is. What people want from you, and what you are, underneath it all. When you have so little say in it all, I think it’s important to exercise a measure of control when given the opportunity.” She smiled, ducking her head. “So I blow things up.”
Brittany Cavallaro
The Last of August
