E. Lockhart, We Were Liars
18 quotes
"When blood dripped on my bare feet or poured over the book I was reading, he was kind."
"Then he pulled out a handgun and shot me in the chest. I was standing on the lawn and I fell. The bullet hole opened wide and my heart rolled out of my rib cage and down into a flower bed. Blood gushed rhythmically from my open wound,then from my eyes,my ears,my mouth.It tasted like salt and failure. The bright red shame of being unloved soaked the grass in front of our house, the bricks of the path, the steps of the porch. My heart spasmed among the peonies like a trout."
"For the old people in my family—Mummy, the aunties, Granddad—the accumulation of beautiful objects is a life goal.Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.Wins what? is what I’d like to know."
"My head and shoulders melted first, followed by my hips and knees. Before long I was a puddle, soaking into the pretty cotton prints. I drenched the quilt she never finished, rusted the metal parts of her sewing machine. I was pure liquid loss..."
"My boyfriend is named Percocet," I say. "We're very close. I even went to Europe with him last summer."
"Touching him is familiar and unfamiliar. We have been here before. Also we have never been here before."
"Never eat anything bigger than your ass."
"Suffer. You could say it means endure, but that's not exactly right"
"suffer. you could say it means endure, but thats not exactly right"
"The universe is seeming really huge right now. I need something to hold on to."
"Be a little kinder than you have to."
"In fact, the mark of tragedy became, with time, a mark of glamour."
"I wanted so much for us: a life free of constriction and prejudice. A life free to love and be loved."
"The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever."
"Go on, strike, said the witch, smiling. Fire is beautiful. Nothing bad will happen."
"Our kiss was electric and soft,and tentative and certain,terrifying and exactly right.I felt the love rush from me to Gat and from Gat to me.We were warm and shivering,and young and ancient,and alive.I was thinking, It's true. We already love each other.We already do."
"Always do what you're afraid to do. ...I will prove myself strong when they think I am sick. I will prove myself brave when they think I am weak."
"Divorce shreds the muscles of our hearts so that they will hardly beat without a struggle."