“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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“There are certain books that I mean to read and keep stacked by my bedside. I even take them on trips. Some of my books should be awarded their own frequent-flier miles, they've traveled so much. I take these volumes on flight after flight with the best of intentions and then end up reading anything and everything else. (Sky Mall! Golf Digest!)”
― Will Schwalbe, quote from The End of Your Life Book Club
“Does the U.S. attorney know you spend your workdays listening to office gossip?”
Jack grinned in satisfaction. “The U.S. attorney is thrilled that there’s finally someone else for this
office to gossip about.”
― Julie James, quote from A Lot like Love
“Nector [speaking to Bernadette] could have told her, having drunk down the words of Nanapush, that comfort is not security and money in the hand disappears. He could have told her that only the land matters and never to let go of the papers, the titles, the tracks of the words, all those things that his ancestors never understood how the vital relationship to the dirt and grass under their feet.”
― Louise Erdrich, quote from The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
“He was a devoted follower of the teachings of Epicurus — “that pleasure is the beginning and end of living happily” — although I hasten to add that he was an Epicurean not in the commonly misunderstood sense, as a seeker after luxury, but in the true meaning, as a pursuer of what the Greeks call ataraxia, or freedom from disturbance. He consequently avoided arguments and unpleasantness of any kind (needless to say, he was unmarried) and desired only to contemplate philosophy by day and dine by night with his cultured friends. He”
― Robert Harris, quote from Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome
“Ah, Piglet, you must never trust
Young ladies from the upper crust.”
― Roald Dahl, quote from Revolting Rhymes
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