“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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“Then she probably would have waved back," Max said. "And it might be a he."
"Ha! Not likely," Lucia said. "Didn't you notice them?"
"Them what?" Max asked.
"Her... you know. She has breasts, Max! What do you think that is on her chest?"
"I think it's a pair of crossed arms," Max said.”
― Ellen Potter, quote from The Kneebone Boy
“... The use of your gift for good is your responsibility. You must decide for yourself.”
― Thomas Sweeney, quote from The Harem
“he committed such a heinous act, would have owned up to it and taken his punishment like a man, as the archaic phrase goes. That may be a quaint and sexist notion these days, but some of what is best about the South is archaic. The tragedy is that it should be so.”
― Greg Iles, quote from Turning Angel
“Don’t shoot me, Sidney, I love you.”
He had shot him right through the words that still haunted him today, the most perfect words ever said to him.”
― James Purdy, quote from Narrow Rooms
“When the corporation’s investment capital becomes impatient for growth, good money becomes bad money because it triggers a subsequent cascade of inevitable incorrect decisions. Innovators who seek funding for the disruptive innovations that could ultimately fuel the company’s growth with a high probability of success now find that their trial balloons get shot down because they can’t get big enough fast enough. Managers of most disruptive businesses can’t credibly project that the business will become very big very fast, because new-market disruptions need to compete against nonconsumption and must follow an emergent strategy process. Compelling them to project big numbers forces them to declare a strategy that confidently crams the innovation into a large, existing, and obvious market whose size can be statistically substantiated. This means competing against consumption.”
― Clayton M. Christensen, quote from The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
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