Perfect lie Quotes

“I lie constantly. All the time. I’m nothing but one big mass of lies.”

“I had fallen in love with a perfect lie.”

“My tongue ran over my lower lip and I could taste the sin. It was thick and heavy in the air, and it made my head swim as I gazed into Abel's ocean-colored eyes. I wondered whether he tasted it too, whether his heart was pounding in his chest. I wondered most of all if it was artificial - a haze of adoration brought on by the pills. It had been so long since I'd wanted that; I didn't trust my own thoughts, but if felt too good to care.”

“The perfect life, the perfect lie, I realised after Christmas, is one which prevents you from doing that which you would ideally have done (painted, say, or written unpublishable poetry) but which, in fact, you have no wish to do.”

“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.”

“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’ll be fine. I’m always fine.”

“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?”

“Crazy must run in your family,” he says.“You do know Fia!” I blurt, then bite my lip.”