“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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“No, thanks, we’re not keen on cat pix.”
― Ira Levin, quote from The Stepford Wives
“Chapter 1 A lot of people lounge by pools in L.A., but few of them are truly immortal, no matter how hard they pretend with plastic surgery and exercise. Doyle was truly immortal and had been for over a thousand years. A thousand years of wars, assassinations, and political intrigue, and he’d been reduced to being eye candy in a thong bathing suit by the pool of the rich and famous. He lay at the edge of the pool, wearing almost nothing. Sunlight glittered across the blue, blue water of the pool. The light broke in a jagged dance across his body, as if some invisible hand stirred the light, turning it into a dozen tiny spotlights that coaxed Doyle’s dark body into colors I’d never known his skin could hold. He wasn’t black the way a human being is black, but more the way a dog is black. Watching the play of light on his skin, I realized I’d been wrong. His skin gleamed with blue highlights, a shine of midnight blue along the long muscular sweep of his calf, a flare of royal blue like a stroke of deep sky touched his back and shoulder. Purple to shame the darkest amethyst caressed his hip. How could I ever have thought his skin monochrome? He was a miracle of colors and light, strapped across a body that rippled and moved with muscles honed in wars fought centuries before I was born.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Seduced by Moonlight
“I’d have much rather gotten dragged into someone else’s fight than face what was waiting for me. Other people’s emotional pain, no matter how painful, is so much less painful than your own.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Incubus Dreams
“This is my first . . . ah . . .”
“Haunting?” he offered.
I snorted. “Yes, this is my first haunting.”
“Then I’m flattered.”
― Tara Hudson, quote from Hereafter
“We stood there for a full half hour, like so many scarecrows, while they jeered at us from a distance, and one or two of us were shot down.”
― George MacDonald Fraser, quote from Flashman
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