Quotes from Last Light

M. Pierce ·  304 pages

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“I could lie my way out of existence.”
― M. Pierce, quote from Last Light


“You have to be a great liar to write fiction, a real historical revisionist.”
― M. Pierce, quote from Last Light


“He played like he wanted to break the piano.”
― M. Pierce, quote from Last Light


“That was how I wanted to feel: almost out of control.”
― M. Pierce, quote from Last Light


“Now it was our little joke, signifying nothing.”
― M. Pierce, quote from Last Light



“I stretched out alongside her and pulled the covers over us. I moved against her and sighed. There. I had one perfect thing in my life.”
― M. Pierce, quote from Last Light


“Why did I always do the worst things? Why did I always arrange my life so that it was on the brink of collapse?”
― M. Pierce, quote from Last Light


“Let’s not live like other people. Let’s not be like other couples.”
― M. Pierce, quote from Last Light


“He draws people in without even trying. Puts them under a spell. And then he does what he always does—lies or disappears—and you break on the rocks you were too dazed to see.”
― M. Pierce, quote from Last Light


“We would kiss and say things we didn’t mean. Counterfeit intimacy.”
― M. Pierce, quote from Last Light



“He’s the golden boy, you see? We always forgive him.”
― M. Pierce, quote from Last Light


“You can’t see the real world anymore. Everyone becomes a caricature.”
― M. Pierce, quote from Last Light


“When would it be my turn to truly know him? Fear answered: Never. You’ll never know him. You can’t hold on to a man like that.”
― M. Pierce, quote from Last Light


“I’ll be buried in a Presbyterian cemetery. Did you know that? I’m tired enough to go there now.”
― M. Pierce, quote from Last Light


“When people know you’re an author, they turn into weirdos. I swear.”
― M. Pierce, quote from Last Light



“I felt such pity for her, and such gratitude, too—because she let me be nobody.”
― M. Pierce, quote from Last Light


“Brilliant. I’d have a cult following.”
― M. Pierce, quote from Last Light


“So let them talk. Let the rumors fly.”
― M. Pierce, quote from Last Light


“I was on top, a rare thing indeed.”
― M. Pierce, quote from Last Light


“And Seth, who seemed so unwelcome before, now stood clearly in my mind’s eye. Vulnerable. Honest. A casualty of Matt’s game.”
― M. Pierce, quote from Last Light



“the way people return to a burnt home—not to salvage it, but to wade through the wreckage and suffer.”
― M. Pierce, quote from Last Light


“He looked beautiful, and fallen, like Lucifer.”
― M. Pierce, quote from Last Light


“The heart always knows what the mind refuses to accept.”
― M. Pierce, quote from Last Light


“She was alive in her anger, her eyes illuminated, her body electric. She gave no ground, took no excuses.”
― M. Pierce, quote from Last Light


“You don’t see the difference between fiction and reality. Everything is your story.”
― M. Pierce, quote from Last Light



“Great. They fucked with my punctuation?” “Pam says you’re overly fond of semicolons.”
― M. Pierce, quote from Last Light


“I don’t want to be the sun in your sky,” she continued. “Do you get what I mean? I’m happy being the moon.”
― M. Pierce, quote from Last Light


“She would fear the public, with its vulgar curiosity and sickening sense of entitlement.”
― M. Pierce, quote from Last Light


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