“It is possible to know people. They show you who they are. You just have to be looking.”
― Caroline Kepnes, quote from Hidden Bodies
“The real horror of my life is not that I’ve killed some terrible people. The real horror is that the people I’ve loved didn’t love me back.”
― Caroline Kepnes, quote from Hidden Bodies
“Love is kind, love is patient but also, mainly, above all—yes—Love is perverted.”
― Caroline Kepnes, quote from Hidden Bodies
“We all get our hearts broken. We get fucked up and throw up and we cry and listen to sad songs and say we’re never doing that again. But to be alive is to do it again. To love is to risk everything”
― Caroline Kepnes, quote from Hidden Bodies
“A book lets you choose how much of the blood you want to see. A book gives you the permission to see the story as you want, as your mind directs.”
― Caroline Kepnes, quote from Hidden Bodies
“And there is nothing more terrifying than realizing the one who knows you best loves you least.”
― Caroline Kepnes, quote from Hidden Bodies
“Your skin is a waste of space because there's no heart inside of you”
― Caroline Kepnes, quote from Hidden Bodies
“Memories are all the same at their core; it’s just us trying to keep each other alive, the best parts anyway.”
― Caroline Kepnes, quote from Hidden Bodies
“There is nothing more terrifying than realizing that the one who knows you best loves you least, pities you even.”
― Caroline Kepnes, quote from Hidden Bodies
“It is my destiny to know people who abuse punctuation.”
― Caroline Kepnes, quote from Hidden Bodies
“Just eat it and shit it and be done with it and don’t feel special cuz you eat that shit with someone because in the end we all shit alone!”
― Caroline Kepnes, quote from Hidden Bodies
“She looks out the window at Reno, which looks like Vegas and yet also looks nothing like Vegas. It’s lesser, smaller, worse.”
― Caroline Kepnes, quote from Hidden Bodies
“Los Angeles is full of places to hide a body, but when the person inside the body doesn’t love you, it’s not an easy thing, turning that breathing person into a dead one.”
― Caroline Kepnes, quote from Hidden Bodies
“Making It in Hollywood is the most disgusting phrase in the English language. It’s more disturbing than prolific serial killer and rare terminal illness.”
― Caroline Kepnes, quote from Hidden Bodies
“People are so lonely, they spend their birthdays on the Internet, thanking people for wishing them a happy birthday, people who only know it’s their birthday because Facebook told them.”
― Caroline Kepnes, quote from Hidden Bodies
“Amy is a Sharpie; she's passionate.”
― Caroline Kepnes, quote from Hidden Bodies
“We're like, do whatever. Chill out. Be gay. Be straight. I mean, what is the big deal? We're all gonna die anyway, you know? Who wants to spend their precious life hating?”
― Caroline Kepnes, quote from Hidden Bodies
“But I can’t stand the way you make me feel so good, like, better than I ever felt, and then you tear it all away, like deep down, you don’t want me to be happy.”
― Caroline Kepnes, quote from Hidden Bodies
“There is nothing remarkable about this 'guac', about any 'guac', and California needs to calm the fuck down.”
― Caroline Kepnes, quote from Hidden Bodies
“We don’t care, you know? We’re like, do whatever. Chill out. Be gay. Be straight. I mean, what is the big deal? We’re all gonna die anyway, you know? Who wants to spend their precious life hating?” I”
― Caroline Kepnes, quote from Hidden Bodies
“This is why people like writing. You visit old friends without having to go on Facebook and see what they’re up to and deal with what idiots called FOMO. You make them into what you want them to be, the people they could be if only they were braver, smarter.”
― Caroline Kepnes, quote from Hidden Bodies
“And really, when you grow up, and get over yourself, when you fuck narcissism and leave the hashtags at the door, you see what really matters in life.”
― Caroline Kepnes, quote from Hidden Bodies
“It's not the past if it's not finished.”
― Caroline Kepnes, quote from Hidden Bodies
“So I Lyfted to Home Depot, where I bought random stuff, rope and duct tape, plastic bags, cable ties, and plastic gloves. The girl at the register winked and said she’s also a big fan of Fifty Shades and this is what has become of our society. Fucking and killing are the same damn thing. Now”
― Caroline Kepnes, quote from Hidden Bodies
“We are built to walk. Not to SoulCycle and jog and hike. Walking is mental. You sharpen your thoughts and process your emotions.”
― Caroline Kepnes, quote from Hidden Bodies
“He snorts more cocaine, I could pull over and roll him out the door, but he's on so much blow right now that he would probably just turn into a roadrunner, catch up to me, and jump back in.”
― Caroline Kepnes, quote from Hidden Bodies
“...you can love some all you want, but you can't go into their past and become a part of their formative years.”
― Caroline Kepnes, quote from Hidden Bodies
“I don't like this culture of reading a book and spitting out an immediate reaction.”
― Caroline Kepnes, quote from Hidden Bodies
“There is no such thing as a one-night stand. Sometimes, what you do for one night destroys your future.”
― Caroline Kepnes, quote from Hidden Bodies
“It would be nice to have something alive to hold on to right now, something to love me, something with a beating heart that I can feel, something to be with me as I sit here, in hell, trying to figure it out.”
― Caroline Kepnes, quote from Hidden Bodies
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“Here in the hills the rain washing down my face feels good. I lift up my head and open my mouth and let the water in, it is sweet, pure and sweet. I shield my eyes and look in the direction of the town, invisible behind the torrent of water. Let it run, I think, through the streets, down the gutters, into drains until it is carried away by the river. Let it wash away the shit and the pus and the blood, the things that can be washed away. But let it also wash away the fear and the malice and the spite, the things that are harder to erase.”
― Aminatta Forna, quote from The Hired Man
“There were lives in those books, and deaths. Families and friends and lovers and enemies. Joy and despair, jealousy, envy, madness, and rage. All there. I reached out and touched the cover of one called The Earth. I could almost hear the characters inside, murmuring and jostling, impatient for me to open the cover and let them out.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, quote from A Gathering Light
“If you in fact had no gold, then your situation was hopeless. You would be beaten, burned, tortured, and steamed to the point of death or until they finally came to believe you. But if you had gold, you could determine the extent of your torture, the limits of your endurance, and your own fate. Psychologically, this situation was, incidentally, not easier but more difficult, because if you made an error
you would always be ridden by a guilty conscience. Of course, anyone who had already mastered the rules of the institution would yield and give up his gold—that was easier. But it was a mistake to give it up too readily. They would refuse to believe you had coughed it all up, and they would continue to hold you. But you'd be wrong, too, to wait too long before yielding: you'd end up kicking the bucket or they'd paste a term on you out of meanness. One of the Tatar draymen endured all the tortures: he had no gold! They imprisoned his wife, too, and tortured her, but the Tatar stuck to his story: no gold! Then they arrested his daughter: the Tatar couldn't take it any more. He coughed up 100,000 rubles. At this point they let his family go, but slapped a prison term on him.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, quote from The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Volume 1
“Sam found a chair under Robin’s butt and evicted him from it, bringing it over to his pregnant wife.“Sorry, I wasn’t thinking,” Robin apologized.
“Thanks,” Alyssa said to Robin as she sat down, even as she gave Sam a darkly amused look.
“What?” he said. “I was just helping him think.”
― Suzanne Brockmann, quote from All Through the Night
“There is not a living man who does not wish to play the despot when he is stiff: it seems to him his joy is less when others appear to have as much fun as he; by an impulse of pride, very natural at this juncture, he would like to be the only one in the world capable of experiencing what he feels: the idea of seeing another enjoy as he enjoys reduces him to a kind of equality with that other, which impairs the unspeakable charm despotism causes him to feel.”
― Marquis de Sade, quote from Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and Other Writings
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