Things We Do In The Dark Quotes
"There’s a time and a place for erect nipples, but the back of a Seattle police car definitely isn’t it."
"She’s not praying. It’s much too late for that."
"Paris wasn’t holding a weapon. It was just a shaving tool."
"But this is not a normal Sunday. This is a fucking nightmare."
"If you were hungry as a child, you never really get over it."
"Because while you can reinvent yourself, you can’t outrun yourself."
"Everybody was entitled to their secrets."
"How self-absorbed are you that you missed these things?"
"It’s always best to cry silently, so you don’t make things worse."
"Hi Zoe. Thanks for the phone. You’re fired."
"It's a cutthroat business, but you slayed it. Love, E."
"I'm an old dog with old tricks. And my fans are as old as me. They don't give a shit if I'm on social media, so why should I?"
"The only thing that ever brought me joy was drugs."
"Both. I've never had one without the other."
"I understand how famous Jimmy is, now more than ever."
"Nobody writes for Jimmy but Jimmy. And my brand is I don't want to be on fucking Twitter."
"I did live here, with Joey. I need to know if that's her. Joelle Reyes."
"The importance of regular chimney maintenance cannot be overstated."
"My advice? Don’t go looking for Betty. She was bad news."
"She was a dancer at a strip club called the Golden Cherry."
"Ruby knew what she had that made her different from the other girls, and she worked it well."
"I can’t believe anyone is still interested in all my ancient history."
"You’re a fucking stripper, don’t you get it? I’m a DANCER!"
"They all had terrible stories. One even said Charles raped her, in his office, after everyone went home for the night."
"Her mother’s boyfriends never lived with us."
"The trick was to not be Joey. The trick was to be Ruby."
"It's easy. I just pretend I'm my mother."
"But sometimes the only way to start over is to burn it all down."
"As long as they were paying, she would be whatever Asian they wanted her to be. Inside the club."
"Anything was better than the way Drew was looking at her right now."
"Under the stage lights, it made your skin shimmer."
"There's no magic secret to reinventing yourself."
"You pick who you want to be, and then you start acting like"
"You embarrassed me. Don’t you ever do that again."
"I’ll believe that when you do this for me."
"The truth is whatever I tell you it is."
"Everywhere she went, photographers followed."
"You ever need a passport, it’s fifty large."
"You’ll love me when you’re free. Trust me, okay? This ain’t my first rodeo."
"If you love me, you will do this for me. It’s really the least you can do."
"She doesn’t get along with her father," Ruby told her. "That’s what happens when you spoil kids rotten."
"The better a skater you were, the sharper the blade would be."
"What would it be like to be Lexi Baxter? Lexi had a mother who loved her, and a father who provided for her. She had a brother to play with or fight with, depending on the day. She had friends. Skating. University. No worries about money. Lexi had been born into a dream life. She had won the family lottery."
"You told her to go?" Duffy already knew all this, but she said it in a tone of disbelief. "You, her thirteen-year-old daughter, told your mother to go?"
"Boys like flat stomachs_, Ruby said. _I blame you for every single one of these stretch marks."
"All that’s left to do now is grieve. And the way Paris grieves is: she cooks."
"Jimmy Peralta’s death has not been ruled a homicide, because there’s simply no evidence to prove that it was," her lawyer said to a dozen or so reporters.
"If you don’t follow the trends, you can never go out of style," Jimmy used to quip.
"You always came across as this self-aware, sensitive guy who was willing to listen," she says. "And I know you’ve apologized, but even your apology comes with an agenda."
"You fucked me over in court, testifying that Charles never touched you. All you had to say was that one thing. That one true thing." Ruby’s voice was hoarse.