“So for now,
I will miss you like I’ll never see you again,
And the next time I see you,
I will kiss you like I’ll never kiss you again,
And when I fall asleep beside you
I will fall asleep as if I’ll never wake up again,
because I don’t know if I will.
I don’t know if I will.

- I Will Love You Like The World Is Ending”
― Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

“In life there are countless firsts and even more lasts. The firsts are easy to recognize; when you’ve never experienced something before – a kiss, a new style of music, a place, a drink, a food – you know exactly when you are encountering it for the first time. But lasts? Lasts nearly always surprise us. It’s only after they’ve disappeared that we realize we’ll never again have that particular moment or person or experience.”
― Frances de Pontes Peebles, The Air You Breathe

“You just don`t know that it is the last time . But I think that`s a good thing , really , because if you did know it would be almost impossible to let go .”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

“The last time is the one that gets you, because it leads right into the first time. Nowhere to go. But you go on anyway. The more you go on the more you stop thinking about going on, because you’re thinking about it all the time. Everything backs up. It gnaws here on the edge, looking back I order not to look forward.”
― Rudolph Wurlitzer, Nog

“A flustered-looking woman hurries after him, but he doesn’t stop. I turn around to watch, silently rooting the kid on. I want to crouch down beside him and tell him to use the tunnel, to keep flying through the dark while he’s still allowed. “When’s the last time we did that?” I ask Lacey when we reach my car, and she shrugs. Then I’m starting the car and tears prick the backs of my eyes and I hate that so many Lasts happen when you aren’t paying attention.”
― Sarah Everett, No One Here Is Lonely

“And now the story begins for the last time.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, Robogenesis

“The last time of anything has the poignancy of death itself.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“You know,' Astrid said, as Ara climbed off the window ledge, 'sometimes it’s a good thing. When you don’t know it’s the last time.”
― Temi Oh, Do You Dream of Terra-Two?

“This is the last time we have breakfast together:
our warm coffee mugs on the kitchen table
our cold bare feet on the blue tile”
― Malak El Halabi

“You do it one last time and keep doing it forever. That.”
― Nitya Prakash

“Love them like you've come to the hospital to see them and this is the last time before they say goodbye.”
― Nitya Prakash

“And all the embezzled
cents and dollars
of the last time I saw you.”
― Laura Kasischke, Space, in Chains

“We would never be together in this life again.”
― Laura Kasischke, Space, in Chains

“They knelt on the carpet of grass, damp with dew. Sofia glanced around, taking solace in her garden. Realizing she might never see it again, she closed her eyes and inhaled the delicate aromas of her luscious red roses, the creamy white honeysuckle, and her favorite, mounds of lilac bushes that blazed purple every spring.”
― Jan Moran, Scent of Triumph

“When was the last time you told a co-worker of family member or neighbor you loved them? Try it.”
― Richie Norton

“The long, slow, sweet summer that had filled us with peace was drawing to a close. The breezes might still blow warm, but around the edges of our world was a "last-time" feeling. This special kind of loveliness, these rich offerings of pasture and wood lot could not go on forever. I wanted to tuck it all inside me--the wonder of it and our own deep delight--so it would last through the winter and until the year turned again to spring.”
― Elizabeth Yates, The Lighted Heart

“And if I am particularly kind that evening, particularly deferential, if I laugh particularly loudly, it is because I know I will never do this again. I will never have him behave like this with me again. But for one final night, he's the father I remember best, the one in whose shadow I have- for better or worse- become what I am.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“A lot of times, you never know if it will be the last time.”
― Mr. Joshua Shaw, My Own Ghost: A Poetry Book for Women and Men exploring Love, Loss, and Mental Health