Twisted Lies Quotes
"Nothing triggered my fight or flight like the sound of Meredith’s voice."
"Once upon a time, working at a fashion magazine would’ve been a dream."
"The city was under a blizzard warning, but the bad weather wouldn’t kick in until later in the evening."
"Like they weren’t hiking the prices of an assisted living facility by more than twenty percent."
"A face so exquisitely chiseled it could’ve been sculpted by Michelangelo himself."
"The air finally lightened, and the knot in my chest loosened a smidge."
"I wasn’t interested in anyone romantically; between the magazine and my blog, I didn’t have time to even think about dating."
"I wasn’t a sentimental person, but there were two areas of my life where my usual pragmatism didn’t apply: Stella and Magda."
"Cyber sabotage was better than a deep tissue massage."
"Don’t ask questions you don’t want the answer to."
"Everything will be fine. Everything is fine."
"The disappointment, judgment, and, worse, the silent I told you so’s that would undoubtedly make up half our conversation."
"Pressure ballooned in my chest, but I managed to make it back to my apartment before I collapsed."
"I refused to collaborate with brands whose products I didn’t genuinely love, which drove Brady nuts because I was so picky about the clothes I wore and the products I used."
"We’d progressed from the days when women couldn’t go anywhere or do anything without their husband’s approval, but the sad truth was, our value was still tied to our ability to 'land' a partner, at least in society’s eyes."
"Adult friendships took work and conscious effort to maintain, but the ones that stayed were the ones that mattered most."
"No parent should ever have to bury their child."
"It’s just a party. You’ve attended plenty of black-tie events."
"Because eventually, the payment would come due, and it would cost more than all the money in the world."
"But I could care for her and give her as comfortable a life as possible. That meant doing everything I could to keep her at Greenfield, including making a deal with Christian Harper."
"A bullet hole in his forehead would be the perfect complement to his vanity."
"My hand flexed around my champagne glass. Over my dead fucking body."
"She was the type of person who had a smile and kind words for everyone."
"I hadn’t obsessed over it the way other bloggers did, but saying I didn’t care was giving me too much credit."
"I forced a calming breath through my nose before I addressed my friends’ points one by one."
"I cracked a tiny smile. 'At the risk of sounding completely cheesy…I love you guys.'"
"Love made the world go round, all right. In endless, tedious cycles."
"But goddammit, I did, no matter how much I hated myself for it."
"You should leave, unless...you want to stay."
"I didn't want to solve Stella Alonso, because once I did, the thread connecting us would be severed."
"Don’t let me find you in my apartment outside the permitted times again, or you’ll discover there are limits to my generosity."
"I expected her to snap back, anticipated it the way an alcoholic anticipated his next sip of liquor."
"I thought he’d either tired of me or gotten arrested. But now… Terror turned my blood into ice."
"You’re okay." Only two words, but they contained such calm reassurance.
"My parents’ expectations, my boss’s demands, my social media, and the deep-rooted sense that no matter how hard I tried, I would never live up to the expectations of those around me."
"Privacy doesn’t exist when it comes to security."
"I didn’t realize you cared that much about my safety."
"People make their own choices. You have the right to live your life how you want without worrying about creeps who can’t curb their worst impulses."
"The world thinks you’re my girlfriend. Can’t have anything happen to you or it’d look bad for me."
"Don’t worry. I keep the destruction to business hours, Monday through Friday."
"It’s not, but you have twenty-three hours and fifty-one minutes to catch up."
"That’s right. And for the record, you need followers with better taste if they’re choosing a unicorn over me. I’m wearing Brioni, for fuck’s sake."
"I don’t want to let the stalker situation rule my life, and I WON’T."
"I don’t care if you sleep with them, but they can’t be here while I’m here. It’s not…it won’t look right."
"I enjoy it. Rhys says it’s my god complex. Knowing how important the lives at stake are and that they’re in my hands."
"If you saw yourself the way other people see you, you’d never doubt again."
"Like you’re the most beautiful, most remarkable thing they’ve ever seen."
"This is one photoshoot, Butterfly. The first half was practice. The second half is yours."
"I’d never disclosed them to previous lovers because I’d been too nervous to share them and because I didn’t trust them to carry out the scenarios the way I wanted."
"One debt owed from a well-placed contact is worth more than all the cash in the world."
"The first half of the shoot was a disaster, the second half was a revelation."
"Every blogger in the world would kill to be standing where you are, but Delamonte chose you."
"It was barely a kiss. We hadn’t even moved, yet our brief contact consumed me."
"I firmly believed that if someone showed you who they were, believe them."
"The day people stopped thinking they could change someone who didn’t want to be changed was the day fewer hearts got broken."
"If you can’t handle a little teasing, you’re not ready for a girlfriend."
"We’re together in public only, for mutually beneficial reasons, and we’re housemates until we find my stalker and put him behind bars. That’s all we are. Nothing more, nothing less."
"I didn’t realize you were watching my follower count that closely."
"It’s gorgeous, and I appreciate the sentiment, but I can’t take this."
"Why are you doing all this? And don’t tell me it’s to congratulate me on my follower count or because you feel guilty someone broke into my apartment."
"It’s because you haven’t looked me in the eye since New York. Because you’re all I can fucking think about no matter where I am or who I’m with, and the thought of you hurt or upset makes me want to raze this city to the ground."
"You can't measure your success based on someone else's progress."
"It's okay to feel sad. I promise I won't tell anyone."
"Sometimes, sacrifices are necessary for happiness."
"We can't have everything we want without making some compromises."
"The only way you'll change your mind is through experience, not words."
"Everyone deserved to experience true love at least once in their lifetime."
"One of the clauses in our contract," Christian said, watching me with those all-knowing eyes, "is that I don’t fall in love with you."
"You and I, we aren’t so different," he said softly.
"It was always hard to breathe around Christian."
"You’re about to have a very bad day when you wake up," I told the photo of his red, beady-eyed face.
"Nothing cleansed the soul like a good cyber rampage."
"I want to etch every detail of her into my mind until I could close my eyes and picture her as vividly as if she were standing in front of me."
"I don’t believe in paradise, nor did I believe I could reach it even if it existed, but she smelled exactly like how I imagined paradise would smell."
"You think that’s funny," I growled, but a smile threatened to slip free at the sparkle in her eyes.
"She was a study in contrasts, the most fascinating puzzle I’d ever come across—strength and vulnerability, calm and chaos, innocence and debauchery."
"I would rather lose an empire than see her sad at my hands."
"It’s about us. Do you think I would disrupt my schedule and fly to Hawaii in the middle of a work week for anyone else?"
"I love feeling you come around me. You are fucking perfect."
"I was just a girl on vacation with her boyfriend."
"Every time I saw him or heard his voice, the butterflies went crazy."
"Despite my best efforts to convince him, he also refused to take up yoga or meditation."
"It was made of tinted glass so people couldn’t see inside, but there was still something so deliciously dirty about being taken against it."
"Italy was as incredible as I’d imagined. The food, the beauty, the culture…everything lived up to my expectations and more."
"You’d think she would try to talk him out of it, but she encouraged it. Sometimes, she even joined him. She loved the thrill and the idea that he would go to such extremes for her."
"A mother’s love is the greatest love of all, right? That’s bullshit."
"There’s nothing I wouldn’t do for you, Stella."
"Let’s quiet that overactive mind of yours, shall we?"
"So tight. So wet. So mine. Come for me, Stella."
"You look so beautiful tied up and blindfolded."
"The day I met you," he said. "Was the luckiest day of my life."
"I believe in everything when it comes to you."
"I just want to know one thing. Are you the stalker?"
"I told you my father was a software engineer. What I didn’t tell you was what he moonlighted as."
"My dream is to be with you. And my biggest fear is losing you."
"I don’t want you keeping tabs on me anymore."
"I will always be here if you need me, no matter how far in distance or time."
"It was like they were asking for their heart to be broken."
"Even knowing what the outcome would be. Even knowing that I would eventually get my heart broken."
"Because if this date does happen, it means you’ve forgiven me. And if I have you back, I’ll never give you a reason to leave again."