Mary Elizabeth Summer · 336 pages
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“Coincidences are like unicorns.you can believe in them all you want,but that doesn't make them real”
― Mary Elizabeth Summer, quote from Trust Me, I'm Lying
“When you can be anybody, you become nobody”
― Mary Elizabeth Summer, quote from Trust Me, I'm Lying
“people don't generally believe themselves to be evil. Just strong. And they think that the world owes them something”
― Mary Elizabeth Summer, quote from Trust Me, I'm Lying
“I'll never understand how really bad guys can communicate with just a series of small signals like that. I always have to explain everything in agonizing detail to get my minions to do my bidding. Maybe I have faulty minions.”
― Mary Elizabeth Summer, quote from Trust Me, I'm Lying
“his mind's like Alcatraz. once something's in, it never gets out”
― Mary Elizabeth Summer, quote from Trust Me, I'm Lying
“I lay the chrysanthemum across the stone, letting my fingers trail across the
cut of his name and
ignoring the tears that never seem far from my eyes these days. Even three
months later, I have
nightmares about him. Not his death, though I still have day-mares about
that. My nightmares are much
worse.
“Don’t worry,” I say. “I’ll watch the world while you sleep.”
― Mary Elizabeth Summer, quote from Trust Me, I'm Lying
“it's a losing battle at this point,but so was the alamo”
― Mary Elizabeth Summer, quote from Trust Me, I'm Lying
“I can't say I have much experience with conscience. I wasn't born with that particular cricket on my shoulder.”
― Mary Elizabeth Summer, quote from Trust Me, I'm Lying
“God, what's in these?" Sam asks, wrinkling his nose.
"Cod, I think," I say. "Close, though."
"I'd laugh, but I'd have to breathe, and that's not something I really want to do right now.”
― Mary Elizabeth Summer, quote from Trust Me, I'm Lying
“Power is like the fish that swallows Geppetto. People become trapped by it. They're afraid that without it, they'll drown in the sea of mediocrity with the rest of us.”
― Mary Elizabeth Summer, quote from Trust Me, I'm Lying
“I guess it's true what the French say: fortune favors the innocent. Lucky for me, it also favors the moderately dishonest.”
― Mary Elizabeth Summer, quote from Trust Me, I'm Lying
“Your story is your best offense; your disguise is your best defense. Weapons will only get you killed.”
― Mary Elizabeth Summer, quote from Trust Me, I'm Lying
“It's a little-known fact that innocent people always look guilty.”
― Mary Elizabeth Summer, quote from Trust Me, I'm Lying
“The truth is, conscience exists because everyone has something in their past they're not proud of.”
― Mary Elizabeth Summer, quote from Trust Me, I'm Lying
“No disguise if more foolproof than the one the mark wants to believe.”
― Mary Elizabeth Summer, quote from Trust Me, I'm Lying
“The first lesson on Lying 101 is that it's best to begin with a lie with a scrap of truth --it lends an air of credibility to an otherwise”
― Mary Elizabeth Summer, quote from Trust Me, I'm Lying
“One of the ten con-man-dments:
Always keep your feelings close to your vest.”
― Mary Elizabeth Summer, quote from Trust Me, I'm Lying
“If you fake connections long enough, you end up friendless and alone.”
― Mary Elizabeth Summer, quote from Trust Me, I'm Lying
“You can love an illusion, but the illusion can't love you back.”
― Mary Elizabeth Summer, quote from Trust Me, I'm Lying
“Anger is almost always based on fear, and fear is the easiest emotion to manipulate.”
― Mary Elizabeth Summer, quote from Trust Me, I'm Lying
“Sometimes the most obvious method is the one they least expect.”
― Mary Elizabeth Summer, quote from Trust Me, I'm Lying
“Trust me when I say that keeping secrets will drive you apart.”
― Mary Elizabeth Summer, quote from Trust Me, I'm Lying
“It's good to have friends. Even crooked ones.”
― Mary Elizabeth Summer, quote from Trust Me, I'm Lying
“I guess it's true what they say -you can never go home again. You can miss it, you can visit, but you can't go back.”
― Mary Elizabeth Summer, quote from Trust Me, I'm Lying
Mary Elizabeth Summer
Born place: in The United States
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“It is possible to insult Americans?”
“They are automatically insulted and enraged,” said the young composer. “They form splenetic organizations by the hundreds, and write letters to periodicals and congressmen. They gather in mobs and pay no attention. They hang people without trial and shoot citizens down with machine guns out of passing cars. They will despise you because you do not eat the same things they eat for breakfast. They even apply indifference.”
― Walter Van Tilburg Clark, quote from The City Of Trembling Leaves
“I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.”
― D.H. Lawrence, quote from The Complete Poems (Poetry Library)
“People are supposed to accumulate, I thought, as they get older, but I seem to be sloughing off, like a person wrapped in a hundred layers of cellophane, tearing one layer off at a time, trying to get down to me.”
― Pam Houston, quote from Waltzing the Cat
“How do you know I am capable of love?” she asked as they walked toward her car. “Steady affection perhaps.” “If by steady you mean faithful, there you have it; the kernel of love. I imagine men long for God because of that unchanging faithfulness. The rock under the quicksands. The Psalms are full of it.” When”
― Elizabeth Goudge, quote from The Scent of Water
“I shouted the perfect words to scare him off. It was just the delivery (and only the delivery) that made me sound like a twelve-year-old girl with pee running down her leg.
I felt dirty and stupid.”
― Graham Parke, quote from No Hope for Gomez!
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