Ill be fine. Im always fine.
Kiersten White, Perfect Lies.
“I lie constantly. All the time. Im nothing but one big mass of lies.”
“I chose him. If I chose him, he had to be the right choice. I wouldnt love him if it werent right.”
“We change the future with every choice we make,”
“Im still afraid to sleeptoo many ghosts peering creeping condemning.”
“This is the tragedy of knowing my fate: I have seen how it ends, and I will walk right into it, and nothing will change.”
“Clinical, brilliantly medical-minded Adam believes in fate. A fate with Fia.”
“To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.”
“We should love, not fall in love, because everything that falls, gets broken.”
“Who fixes broken people? Is it only other broken people, ones who've already been ruined? And do we need to be fixed? It was the messiness and hurt in our pasts that drove us, and that same hurt co...”
“Its a lie, but its the lie he needs. Im going to hell.”
“Fine," he repeated, and I wondered why it was I kept coming back to this, again and again, a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth.”
“All is fine with the world...”
“Your mother is going to be fine," the nurse says. I breathe more easily but the word settles into my stomach. Fine. Was she fine before?”