Kiersten White, Perfect Lies
15 quotes
"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."
"Clinical, brilliantly medical-minded Adam believes in fate. A fate with Fia."
"I lie constantly. All the time. I’m nothing but one big mass of lies."
"I chose him. If I chose him, he had to be the right choice. I wouldn’t love him if it weren’t right."
"We change the future with every choice we make,"
"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?"
"I have to trust that, or I’ll lose my mind. Well, lose it more."
"Crazy must run in your family,” he says.“You do know Fia!” I blurt, then bite my lip."
"James is all I have. I chose James. He has to be right. Please let him be right."
"I’m still afraid to sleep—too many ghosts peering creeping condemning."
"Probably you should stay out of my head. It’s not a friendly place."
"I’ll be fine. I’m always fine."
"I wash myself clean of guilt, of pain, of fear, of emotion. I am the ocean. I am empty. I am nothing."
"I am a girl in want of complete destruction."
"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."