“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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“Through my history's despite
and ruin, I have come
to its remainder, and here
have made the beginning
of a farm intended to become
my art of being here.
By it I would instruct
my wants: they should belong
to each other and to this place.
Until my song comes here
to learn its words, my art
is but the hope of song.
(Part 2 from History is Clearing, p 174)”
― Wendell Berry, quote from The Collected Poems, 1957-1982
“I was nearly unnerved at my proximity to a nameless thing at the bottom of a pit.”
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Griffin shoves past him and grabs me by the shoulders. "Are you alright?"
"Of course. Didn't they tell you?"
From the dark look in his normally bright eyes, I'm going to guess no.
He twists to look back over his shoulder and practically growls. "They didn't tell me anything. Except that I had to wait out here."
"Um, I need to go," Troy says, backing down the steps. "I have class in the morning."
"Coward," I taunt.”
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