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 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

“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

“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

“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

“That’s the trouble with planting live things to remember the dead; sometimes what you plant doesn’t live as long as you’d like either.”
― 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

“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

“grief’s the love we carry with us. Ignoring it only makes it hurt more.”
― Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

“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

“Sometimes yuh gotta love even when it don't make sense.”
― Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

“Sometimes tears are the only words worth sharing.”
― Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

“There are moments in life that speed up too fast, go by more quickly than we want--the last moments of a painted sky at sunset before darkness comes, the final purr of a cat drifting off to sleep, the contagious laugh of a loved one. But then there are moments that slow down despite us wanting them to go away.”
― Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

“Whenever Daddy would take me to the ocean, I'd see it in its beauty--the blues and turquoises of the water, the ripples and movements that drenched my ears in soothing sounds. But Daddy never took me there during the storms. We didn't go to shore when a hurricane came or the waves crashed high and hard onto the sand. What Daddy had come to know was the dichotomy, the mixing of the beauty and destruction, the awe and devastation that the force of nature could unleash.”
― Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

“Trouble is, molding yourself is hard enough; molding others is even harder.”
― Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

“There's a liturgy to each of our lives, whether we realize it or not.”
― Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

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

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

“After all it's not until something worse comes along that we can look back and realize we had something good all along. If only we hadn't been so foolish as to miss it at the time.”
― Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

“That's the trouble with planting live thing to remember the dead; sometimes what you plant doesn't live as long as you'd like either.”
― Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

“I knew Daddy has my home, but sometimes I also wanted a porch and stately pillars, a beachfront view, a bedroom with a door and even a staircase if I was dreaming big. And definitely a mama, even if she looked at me like Mrs. Barna did as I confessed to trying to make myself a home, even if she was disappointed in what I'd done.”
― Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl