The Only One Left Quotes
"The thing I remember most--the thing I still have nightmares about--is when it was all but over."
"You want to know if I’m as evil as everyone says I am."
"The cruel reality about being an at-home caregiver is that the job is always temporary."
"The infamous Lenora Hope is alive, not so well, and in need of care."
"Hope’s End strikes me as a startlingly apocalyptic name for an estate."
"At last, a place as broken as I feel."
"I’m about to meet a woman who slaughtered her family."
"The infamous Lenora Hope, reduced to a ghost."
"Curiosity, of all things, shimmers inside Lenora’s gaze."
"That’s how it feels to be in this house, this room, this body. Like I’ve been locked inside during one of my father’s games and there’s no one on the other side of the door holding the key that can set me free."
"my body is dead but my mind is alive"
"Nightmares are just your brain thinking it’s Halloween."
"After decades of silence, Lenora Hope wants to tell all."
"Not knowing provides at least a sliver of optimism."
"Hope’s End isn’t a normal house. There’s a darkness here. I can feel it."
"Three people were murdered in this house, Detective. Are you comfortable being here?"
"Detective work’s a calling. It’s in our blood to find the people who do bad things and make them pay."
"My sister knew I was in love. Sisters can tell such things."
"You know, working on Lenora’s motor skills."
"The truth about the Hope family murders."
"Mary had the truth about that night."
"It’s the exact same thing you attempted this afternoon. You’re taking what happened to Mary—a very serious, very tragic event—and twisting it into a way to ease your guilt."
"I am telling you I think a woman was murdered."
"That doesn’t mean it didn’t happen."
"And now I want to help her by finding out what really happened. Because she didn’t jump."
"I took great--albeit secret--pride in knowing I was about to bring another life into this world."
"Nearly everyone at Hope’s End played a role in what happened--and most paid dearly for it."
"People like us and people like you and your sister--we’re not meant to mingle."
"If he--or anyone--ever hurts you or makes you unhappy, I won’t hesitate to kill them."
"The past is in the past. It does no one any good to start digging it up."
"At Hope’s End, the past is always present."
"This cliff is going to go eventually. And when it does, Hope’s End is going to go with it."
"I long for the days when I thought the scariest thing about this place was the three murders that happened here."
"I realized he knew I hadn’t gone to the movies."
"What Berniece is telling me shatters all my assumptions."
"I think something happened that night beyond the murders."
"Because she knew you’ve been hiding the fact that your sister is alive."
"How could you? She was your sister."
"Europe was changing. The storm was gathering, and everyone knew it."
"Keeping that child away from this family was the ultimate act of kindness."
"I liked Virginia. I still like her, despite everything."
"I hope whoever’s assigned to care for you next never tries to learn the truth."
"I can’t stay here any longer. I need to get away from this place. And them."
"When I get home, I have things to tell you. About what happened to Mom."
"I can’t stop thinking about Mary. How she was killed for no reason whatsoever."
"The truth will set me free—even if it might also send me to prison."
"Let me get this straight... And she’s the one who killed her parents?"
Use me," it seemed to say. "That’s what you need to do now.
"And that’s the full story, Mary. Not what you expected, is it?"
"I’m not afraid my father will do me harm."
"She’s waited long enough. Take good care of her, Kit."
"You’ve always been my pride and joy."
"Then my father turns back to the house and enters without hesitation."
"Hope’s End follows the collapsing cliff and slides into the ocean."
"Music drifts out of Virginia’s room."