“Always sleep with one eye open. Never take anything for granted. Your best friends might just be your enemies.”
― Sara Shepard, quote from The Lying Game
“Pull yourself together, bitch. He's just a guy.”
― Sara Shepard, quote from The Lying Game
“At least she had a clear picture of what the Lying Game was now: Girl Scouts for psychopaths.”
― Sara Shepard, quote from The Lying Game
“I understood we used to be close. But they were like books i'd read two summer ago; I knew I'd liked them, but I couldn't tell you now what they'd been about.”
― Sara Shepard, quote from The Lying Game
“Sutton's dead. Tell no one. Keep playing along... or you're next.”
― Sara Shepard, quote from The Lying Game
“My sister had blown out the candle in our breath.That meant our wishes were definitely going to come true”
― Sara Shepard, quote from The Lying Game
“The air smelled like a mélange of everyone's perfume and hair products, with a slight undertone of booze.”
― Sara Shepard, quote from The Lying Game
“No wonder Emma didn't see me. No wonder I wasn't in the mirror. I wasn't really there.
I was dead.
...
Emma stared at the girl's huge, blue eyes, slightly upturned nose, and round face. She looked exactly like her.
That was because the girl in the video was me.”
― Sara Shepard, quote from The Lying Game
“All the desks in this room are bolted down, Sutton. Just so you know." Uh, okay.”
― Sara Shepard, quote from The Lying Game
“School always makes me want to hibernate. - Emma”
― Sara Shepard, quote from The Lying Game
“توجد في داخل كل إنسان حياة بكل معانيها الوجودية:
في داخل كل منا جزء من رغبة في الكرامة البشرية, والشرف الأخلاقي, والخبرات الوجودية الحرة, وكمال العالم.
لكن لدى كل منا في نفس الوقت وبدرجات متفاوتة القدرة على التأقلم مع الحياة المزيفة, كلنا بطريقة ما يسقط في المادية الفاحشة والمصلحة الشخصية, في كل منا شيء من رغبة في الذوبات في جمع مجهول, ينساب معه بسعادة عبر مجرى حياة زائفة.
فالأمر ليس إذن صراع بين هويتين.
إنه شيء أسوأ من ذلك: إنها أزمة الهوية نفسها.”
― Václav Havel, quote from The Power of the Powerless
“We must not confuse letting go of past injuries with feeling an obligation to let the injurers back into our life. The freedom of forgiveness often includes a firm boundary and loving distance from those who have harmed us. As my father likes to say, "We can let them back into our hearts without ever letting them back into our house.”
― Noah Levine, quote from Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries
“During the Vietnam War, servicemen were typically deployed once, for an average of six months. During the Gulf War, service members were also typically deployed only once, for an average of 153 days.31 Today, average deployments last thirteen months, and more than one-third of service members are deployed more than once.”
― Christopher L. Hayes, quote from Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy
“Slowly, like a whisper almost blown away in the wind, two words streaked across her mind. Kiss me.”
― Kaitlyn Davis, quote from Ignite
“So then, in a pleading tone, he whispers: Why did you make me? I never wanted to be made…
For propaganda, of course. It’s all in your own book. How can we persuade others to be good, without evil we can point to?”
― William T. Vollmann, quote from Europe Central
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