The Last Song Quotes

“Under normal circumstances, Ronnie probably would have appreciated an evening like this. In New York, the lights from the city made it impossible to see many stars, but here, it was just the opposite.”

“I don’t care if your dad is the Sultan of Brunei. You happened to be born into a privileged family. What you do with that truth is completely up to you. I’m here because I want to be with you. But if I didn’t, all the money in the world wouldn’t have changed my feelings for you.”

″‘I don’t hate it here,’ she said automatically. Surprising herself, she realized that as much as she’d been trying to convince herself otherwise, she was telling the truth. ‘It’s just that I don’t belong here.‘”

“He stared back at her, knowing with certainty that he was falling in love. He pulled her close and kissed her beneath a blanket of stars, wondering ho on earth he’d been lucky enough to find her.”

“It hadn’t been so long ago, yet sometimes she felt that she’d been an altogether different person back then.”

“Every time the light shines through the window we built, or any window at all, you’ll know I’m right there with you, okay? That’s going to be me. I’ll be the light in the window.”

“Even though I wasn’t there when it happened, I think the summer really began with the fire.”

“He finally understood that God’s presence was everywhere, at all times, and was experienced by everyone at one time or another.”

“In profile, he could see both the young woman she was becoming and the little girl he remembered.”

″‘No, sweetie. Just the opposite.’ He rolled his head to face her. ‘I asked you to come so I could watch you live.‘”

“Sometimes she wished her father had started her on the electric guitar. Or at the very least, singing lessons. What was she supposed to do with an ability to play the piano?”

“I never stopped loving you, Ronnie. And I never stopped thinking about you. Even if summers do come to an end.”

″‘I finished your song,’ she said. ‘Our last song.‘”

“In the end, you should always do the right thing, even if it’s hard.”

“I mean talk. Never forget that God is your friend. And like all friends, He longs to hear what’s been happening in your life. Good or bad, whether it’s been full of sorrow or anger, and even when you’re questioning why terrible things have to happen. So I talk with him.”

″... the pieces all fit together. Yet everything was falling apart.”

“Life, he realized, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it’s in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.”

″... he was ordinary in a world that loved the extraordinary.”

“No matter how bright your star became, I never cared about the music half as much as I cared about you as a daughter... I want you to know that.”

″‘Yes,’ she said. ‘I’ll bring you home.‘”