“Sometimes, a family is like an ear of summer corn: It might look perfect on the outside, but when you peel the husk away. every kernel is rotten.”
― Sara Shepard, quote from Ali's Pretty Little Lies
“The lie that started it all.”
― Sara Shepard, quote from Ali's Pretty Little Lies
“She'd make them wish they were never Alison DiLaurentis's friends in the first place. She didn't know how, and she didn't know when, but at least she had one person she could count on to help her carry it out. Together, they were going to make it happen.
Even if it killed her.”
― Sara Shepard, quote from Ali's Pretty Little Lies
“Every time she considered getting up and doing something, her limbs wouldn’t move.”
― Sara Shepard, quote from Ali's Pretty Little Lies
“Sometimes, a family is like an ear of summer corn: It might look perfect on the outside, but when you peel the husk away, every kernel is rotten.”
― Sara Shepard, quote from Ali's Pretty Little Lies
“So she shut her eyes and channeled her sister. A beautiful bitch. A manipulative queen bee. The girl who'd ruined her life.”
― Sara Shepard, quote from Ali's Pretty Little Lies
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“Apoi, pe neasteptate, stiu ce are de facut. Se indrepta spre teancul de discuri si alese "Arta fugii". "Daca geniul lui nu-mi da curaj, gandi el, trebuie sa renunt imediat." Ramase pe scaun, nemiscat, ascultand cum Bach construia o lume, o popula, o organiza si, pana la urma, lupta impotriva ei si era distrus. Cand muzica se opri, intocmai cum se opreste omul la sosirea mortii, in mijlocul unei fraze, Doc isi regasise curajul. "Bach s-a luptat cu disperare, isi zise el, n-a fost invins. Daca ar mai fi trait, ar fi continuat sa lupte cu imposibilul. [....] "Ce inteleg prin a castiga?" Stiu. Pentru a castiga e suficient sa nu fii tu insuti invins." [....] Simti ca n-are de ce sa se mai teama. "La revedere, le spuse serpilor, urati-mi noroc".”
― John Steinbeck, quote from Sweet Thursday
“Neither the heart cut by a sliver of glass in a wasteland of thorns, nor the atrocious waters seen in the corners of certain houses, waters like eyelids and eyes, could hold your waist in my hands when my heart lifts its oak trees toward your unbreakable thread of snow. Night sugar, spirit of crowns, redeemed human blood, your kisses banish me, and a surge of water with remnants of the sea strikes the silences that wait for you surrounding the worn-out chairs, wearing doors away.”
― Pablo Neruda, quote from Residence on Earth
“I watch her as she leaves. Everything about her is fluid as a river. Her messy hair, her xylophone voice, the strokes of her paintbrush. Even her camouflage army jacket hangs loose, flowing like ribbons.”
― Lisa Ann Sandell, quote from A Map of the Known World
“L'amore è l'unica costante in questo difficile mondo razionale, l'amore e la sua metà oscura, l'odio.”
― Joanne Harris, quote from Sleep, Pale Sister
“What have I done, Obie?"
Obie flung his hand in the air, the gesture encompassing all the rotten things that had occur under Archie's command, at Archie's direction. The ruined kids, the capsized hopes. Renault last fall and poor Tubs Casper and all the others including even the faculty. Like Brother Eugene.
"You know what you've done, Archie. I don't need to draw up a list-"
"You blame me for everything, right, Obie? You and Carter and all the others. Archie Costello, the bad guy. The villain. Archie, the bastard. Trinity would be such a beautiful place without Archie Costello. Right, Obie? But it's not me, Obie, it's not me...."
"Not you?" Obie cried, fury gathering in his throat, his chest, his guts. "What the hell do you mean, not you? This could have been a beautiful place to be, Archie. A beautiful time for all of us. Christ, who else, if not you?"
"Do you really want to know who?"
"Okay, who then?" Impatient with his crap, the old Archie crap.
"It's you, Obie. You and Carter and Bunting and Leon and everybody. But especially you, Obie. Nobody forced you to do anything, buddy. Nobody made you join the Vigils. Nobody twisted your arm to make you secretary of the Vigils. Nobody pain you to keep a notebook with all that crap about the students, all their weaknesses, soft points. The notebook made your job easier, didn't it, Obie? And what was your job? Finding the victims. You found them, Obie. You found Renault and Tubs Casper and Gendreau-the first one, remember, when we were sophomores?-how you loved it all, didn't you Obie?" Archie flicked a finger against the metal of the car, and the ping was like a verbal exclamation mark. "Know what, Obie? You could have said no anytime, anytime at all. But you didn't...." Archie's voice was filled with contempt, and he pronounced Obie's name as if it were something to be flushed down a toilet.
"Oh, I'm an easy scapegoat, Obie. For you and everybody else at Trinity. Always have been. But you had free choice, buddy. Just like Brother Andrew always says in Religion. Free choice, Obie, and you did the choosing....”
― Robert Cormier, quote from Beyond the Chocolate War
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