“She told me only people we love the most can destroy us, because no one else has that kind of power.”
― Kiersten White, quote from Perfect Lies
“I wash myself clean of guilt, of pain, of fear, of emotion. I am the ocean. I am empty. I am nothing.”
― Kiersten White, quote from Perfect Lies
“I’ll be fine. I’m always fine.”
― Kiersten White, quote from Perfect Lies
“Once upon a time, I was a little girl with a mom and a dad and a sister, and the only monsters in the world were imaginary.
Then I became one of the monsters.”
― Kiersten White, quote from Perfect Lies
“I chose the hardest path and I am choosing the easiest right path. I am choosing nothing, and , for once, nothing is exactly right.”
― Kiersten White, quote from Perfect Lies
“How many lies can I brain tells itself until becomes truth?”
― Kiersten White, quote from Perfect Lies
“Silly man, doesn’t he know money is imaginary?” It’s paper that turns into numbers on screens, after all. It’s there, then it’s gone. I put it places, I take it out, I move it someplace else. Imaginary. Most things are imaginary, when you think about it.”
― Kiersten White, quote from Perfect Lies
“Oh, baby sister. We all want things we shouldn’t have. Even you. Just because you love him doesn’t mean you should. Love is a choice, like anything else.”
― Kiersten White, quote from Perfect Lies
“Probably you should stay out of my head. It’s not a friendly place.”
― Kiersten White, quote from Perfect Lies
“Am I giving you a headache? I think.
“You are a headache.”
― Kiersten White, quote from Perfect Lies
“I did the right choice so you wouldn't have to do the wrong one.”
― Kiersten White, quote from Perfect Lies
“His eyes search mine, more serious than his tone would indicate, and I know he’s looking to see whether or not I’m falling apart. He doesn’t need to.”
― Kiersten White, quote from Perfect Lies
“Most things are imaginary, when you think about it. Sometimes I think I'm imaginary.”
― Kiersten White, quote from Perfect Lies
“I need to be nothing for a very long time until I can decide what something I want to be.”
― Kiersten White, quote from Perfect Lies
“I have a date with the endless empty ocean. I am ready to leave.
I am choosing nothing, and, for once, nothing is exactly right.”
― Kiersten White, quote from Perfect Lies
“I am a girl in want of complete destruction.”
― Kiersten White, quote from Perfect Lies
“I lie constantly. All the time. I’m nothing but one big mass of lies.”
― Kiersten White, quote from Perfect Lies
“I am the ocean. I am the yacht in the middle of the ocean. I am nothing. I am flames.”
― Kiersten White, quote from Perfect Lies
“We change the future with every choice we make,”
― Kiersten White, quote from Perfect Lies
“Cole gets up and then says, “Adam. Five texts. I can read them to you.” He pauses. “Unless they’re personal.” I roll my eyes.
“Not that it’s any of your business, but I’m pretty sure he’s desperately in love with my sister.” Cole snorts.
“He’s crazy.”
“He’d have to be, right?”
― Kiersten White, quote from Perfect Lies
“If I cannot trust myself to love the right person, what can I trust?”
― Kiersten White, quote from Perfect Lies
“I have to trust that, or I’ll lose my mind. Well, lose it more.”
― Kiersten White, quote from Perfect Lies
“We are both of us made of the things we have lost.”
― Kiersten White, quote from Perfect Lies
“Her voice is as casual as a knife in the gut.”
― Kiersten White, quote from Perfect Lies
“This is the tragedy of knowing my fate: I have seen how it ends, and I will walk right into it, and nothing will change.”
― Kiersten White, quote from Perfect Lies
“This was my choice, Fia. I made the right choice so you didn't have to make a wrong one.”
― Kiersten White, quote from Perfect Lies
“I’m still afraid to sleep—too many ghosts peering creeping condemning.”
― Kiersten White, quote from Perfect Lies
“Crazy must run in your family,” he says.
“You do know Fia!” I blurt, then bite my lip.”
― Kiersten White, quote from Perfect Lies
“Do you really want to get into my head? I think. It’s not a friendly place. You’ll regret it.”
― Kiersten White, quote from Perfect Lies
“I think happy thoughts and feel happy things and I do not let myself near the swirling black edges of the hole that is my soul when I look at them.”
― Kiersten White, quote from Perfect Lies
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“Oppressive bastards, think they own the place. I told them that karma's going to kick their asses....”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, quote from Catalyst
“No more peeping through keyholes! No more mas turbating in the dark! No more public confessions! Unscrew the doors from their jambs! I want a world where the vagina is represented by a crude, honest slit, a world that has feeling for bone and contour, for raw, primary colors, a world that has fear and respect for its animal origins. I’m sick of looking at cunts all tickled up, disguised, deformed, idealized. Cunts with nerve ends exposed. I don’t want to watch young
virgins masturbating in the privacy of their boudoirs or biting their nails or tearing their hair or lying on a bed full of bread crumbs for a whole chapter. I want Madagascan funeral poles, with animal upon animal and at the top Adam and Eve, and Eve with a crude, honest slit between the legs. I want hermaphrodites who are real hermaphrodites, and not make-believes walking around with an atrophied penis or a dried-up cunt. I want a classic purity, where dung is dung and angels are angels. The Bible a la King James, for example. Not the Bible of Wycliffe, not the Vulgate, not the Greek, not the Hebrew, but the glorious, death-dealing Bible that was created when the English
language was in flower, when a vocabulary of twenty thousand words sufficed to build a monument for all time. A Bible written in Svenska or Tegalic, a Bible for the Hottentots or the Chinese, a Bible that has to meander through the trickling sands of French is no Bible-it is a counterfeit and a fraud. The King James Version was created by a race of bone-crushers. It revives the primitive mysteries, revives rape, murder, incest, revives epilepsy, sadism,
megalomania, revives demons, angels, dragons, leviathans, revives magic, exorcism, contagion, incantation, revives fratricide, regicide, patricide, suicide, revives hypnotism, anarchism, somnambulism, revives the song, the dance, the act, revives the mantic, the chthonian, the arcane, the mysterious, revives the power, the evil, and the glory that is God. All brought into the
open on a colossal scale, and so salted and spiced that it will last until the next Ice Age.
A classic purity, then-and to hell with the Post Office authorities! For what is it enables the classics to live at all, if indeed they be living on and not dying as we and all about us are dying? What preserves them against the ravages of time if it be not the salt that is in them? When I read Petronius or Apuleius or Rabelais, how close they seem! That salty tang! That odor of the menagerie! The smell of horse piss and lion’s dung, of tiger’s breath and elephant’s hide. Obscenity, lust, cruelty, boredom, wit. Real eunuchs. Real hermaphrodites. Real pricks. Real cunts. Real banquets! Rabelais rebuilds the walls of Paris with human cunts. Trimalchio tickles his own throat, pukes up his own guts, wallows in his own swill. In the amphitheater, where a big, sleepy pervert of a Caesar lolls dejectedly, the lions and the jackals, the hyenas, the tigers, the spotted leopards are crunching real human boneswhilst the coming men, the martyrs and imbeciles, are walking up the golden stairs shouting Hallelujah!”
― Henry Miller, quote from Black Spring
“Army? I don’t need an army when I’ve got my ax!”
― Markus Heitz, quote from The Dwarves
“I learned never to take him into a baby store. Ever. He snickered every time he heard the word ‘nipple.’” “Well, that’s what you get for dating a giant twelve-year-old,” I told her, sitting on Jolene’s left.”
― Molly Harper, quote from Nice Girls Don't Live Forever
“Termine como termine mi historia, nunca olvidaré lo afortunado que soy.”
― Morris Gleitzman, quote from Once
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