We Were Liars Quotes
"I live in Burlington, Vermont, with Mummy and three dogs. I am nearly eighteen. I own a well-used library card and not much else, though it is true I live in a grand house full of expensive, useless objects."
"It is true I suffer migraines since my accident. It is true I do not suffer fools."
"Suffer. You could say it means endure, but that’s not exactly right."
"MY STORY STARTS before the accident. June of the summer I was fifteen, my father ran off with some woman he loved more than us."
"He was never fond of dogs, and it was a sign of how much he loved my mother that he let our golden retrievers sleep on the sofas and walked them three miles every morning."
"Blood gushed rhythmically from my open wound, then from my eyes, my ears, my mouth. It tasted like salt and failure."
"Be normal, now, she said. Right now, she said. Because you are. Because you can be."
"We asked Granddad’s lawyers to secure Mummy’s assets."
"The family calls us four the Liars, and probably we deserve it."
"He seemed spring-loaded. Like he was searching for something. He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee."
"I do find you pretty, Cady. I didn’t mean that the way it came out. In fact, when did you get so pretty? It’s distracting."
"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, then, for an hour or two."
"Whoever dies with the most stuff wins. Wins what? is what I’d like to know."
"Pleasure, even, Cadence. Have you ever heard of pleasure?"
"I felt no barrier between us. As long as no one was looking, I ran my fingers along Gat’s cheekbones, down his back."
"Don’t take no for an answer," he always says to us. And "Never take a seat in the back of the room. Winners sit up front."
"Cadence was the first, and it didn’t matter that she was a girl. I would give her everything. Just like a grandson."
"Nothing wrong with me that a Percocet and a couple slugs of vodka doesn’t cure."
"We never told the tree how much we loved it."
"It all seems so sad, so unbearably sad for a second."
"A part of me died. And it was the best part."
"I may not leave the island without permission from her."
"We always will be. No matter what happens as we go to college, grow old, build lives for ourselves; no matter if Gat and I are together or not."
"I think you’re beautiful always and forever."
"You have a life stretching out in front of you with a million possibilities."
"I’d a million times rather live and risk and have it all end badly than stay in the box I’ve been in."
"It doesn’t matter if there are stains on the wall. It doesn’t matter if I have headaches or Mirren is sick."
"No matter where we go, we will always be able to line up on the roof of Cuddledown and gaze at the sea."
"This island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever."
"I changed the course of her life. I changed the fate of the family."
"I am a more powerful person than my mother will ever know."
"We are full of masculinity and testosterone."
"I am an arsonist. A visionary, a heroine, a rebel."
"I am not a child. I can be trusted to know basic information about our family."
"His mouth is so soft and he’s just the best person I know, the best person I’ve ever known, no matter what bad things have happened between us and no matter what happens after this."
"The witch, she was none of these things, for her parents had angered the fairies. No gifts were ever bestowed upon her. She was lonely."
"She watched their beauty burn, their bounce, their intelligence, their wit."
"The children were entranced, for at nearly sixteen they had never seen fire."
"The conflagration prevented her from entering the building when she realized there were people and animals trapped inside."
"Cadence Sinclair Eastman was present on the island at the time of the fire but did not notice it until it was well under way."
"The realization of what I have done comes as a fog in my chest, cold, dark, and spreading."
"Tragedy is ugly and tangled, stupid and confusing."
"It is good to be loved, even though it will not last."