14 quotes found
“Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.”
“We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be”
“She tastes like every dark thought I've ever had.”
“Lie until even you believe it - that's the real secret of lying”
“Telling Sam and Daneca feels like peeling off my own skin to expose everything underneath. It hurts.”
“But I didnt do anything wrong.." Which is stupid of course, things dont happen to people because they deserve them.”
“I have no memory of climbing the stairs up to the roof. I don't even know how to get where I am, which is a problem since I'm going to have to get down, ideally in a way that doesn't involve dying.”
“Someone could cut through the mess in our house and look at it like one might look at rings on a tree or layers of sediment. They'd find the black-and-white hairs of a dog we had when I was six, th...”
“I'm not good at having friends. I mean, I can make myself useful to people. I can fit in. I get invited to parties and I can sit at any table I want in the cafeteria.But actually trusting someone w...”
“The inside is packed with people. Lots of them crowding the bar, passing drinks back for people to carry to tables. A bunch of guys are pouring shots of vodka."To Zacharov!" one toasts."To open hea...”
“The most important thing for any con artist is never to think like a mark. Marks think they can get something for nothing. Marks think they can get what they dont deserve and could never deserve. M...”
“Its just that you go so crazy being alone like that. Sometimes hed forget my water or food and Id cry and cry and cry. She stops talking and looks out the window. I would try to tell myself stories...”
“Theres a tipping point with lies, a point where youve said something so many times that it feels truer than the truth.”
“Once someone's hurt you, it's harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn't stop you from wanting them. Sometimes I actually think it makes the wanting worse.”
