We Were Liars Quotes

“And now he was mine and I said we should not let our love be threatened.
We should not let the family fall apart.
We should not accept an evil we can change.
We would stand up against it, would we not?
Yes. We should.
We would be heroes, even.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“I am so angry. And so happy to see him.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“I can’t even say sorry,” she tells me. “There is not even a Scrabble word for how bad I feel.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“Who killed the girls? The dragon? Or their father?”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“No one here is a criminal. No one is an addict. No one is a failure.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“Johnny, he is bounce, effort, and snark. Mirren, she is sugar, curiousity, and rain. Gat was contemplation and enthusiam. Ambition and strong coffee. My liars.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“We tossed stones into the water. We just existed.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“And now he was mine and I said we should not let our love be threatened.
We should not let the family fall apart.
We should not accept an evil we can change.
We would stand up against it, would we not?
Yes. We should.
We would be heroes, even.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. All that was there, in the lids of his brown eyes, his smooth skin, his lower lip pushed out. There was coiled energy inside.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“I lie in my darkened room. Scavenger birds peck at the oozing matter that leaks from my crushed skull.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“She made me act normal. Because I was. Because I could. She told me to breathe and sit up. And I did what she asked. Again.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“A giant wields a rusty saw. He gloats and hums as he works, slicing through my forehead and into the mind behind it.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“WELCOME, ONCE AGAIN, to the beautiful Sinclair family. We believe in outdoor exercise. We believe that time heals. We believe, although we will not say so explicitly, in prescription drugs and the cocktail hour. We do not discuss our problems in restaurants. We do not believe in displays of distress. Our upper lips are stiff, and it is possible people are curious about us because we do not show them our hearts. It is possible that we enjoy the way people are curious about us.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“The bright red shame of being unloved soaked the grass in front of our house,”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“What a horrible death for those poor, dear, naughty dogs.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“She confused being sick with being brave, and suffered agonies while imagining she merited praise for it.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“My head and shoulders melted first, followed by my hips and knees. Before long 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...”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“Half the time I hate myself for all the things I've done...But the thing that makes me really messed up is the contradiction: when I'm not hating myself, I feel righteous and victimized. Like the world is so unfair.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“You would have been a light in the dark for so many people.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“So many have the same premise: once upon a time, there were three. Three of something: three pigs, three bears, three brothers, three soldiers, three billy goats. Three princesses.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“We were warm and shivering,
and young and ancient,
and alive.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“In fact, the mark of tragedy became, with time, a mark of glamour.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“Go on, strike, said the witch, smiling. Fire is beautiful. Nothing bad will happen.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“He is shivering slightly and he kisses my neck with cold lips.We stay like that,enfolded in each other's arms,for a minute or two,
and it feels like the universe is reorganizing itself,
and I know any anger we felt has disappeared.
Gat kisses me on the lips,and touches my cheek.
I love him.
I have always loved him.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“I wanted to touch him like he was a bunny, a kitten, something so special and soft your fingertips can’t leave it alone. The universe was good because he was in it.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“In a profound, symbolic gesture, I am giving you this bar of Vosges I got when we went to Edgartown. You can eat it, or just sit next to it and feel superior.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“A lot of times, I wish I were dead, I truly do, just to make the pain stop.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“I had lost my dad. I had come here to this island from a house of tears and falsehood and I saw Gat, and I saw that rose in his hand, and in that one moment, with the sunlight from the window shining in on him, the apples on the kitchen counter, the smell of wood and ocean in the air, I did call it love.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“Of course I’m angry,” I say. “Two years of disappearance. Never calling and not writing back and making everything worse by not dealing. Now you’re all, Ooh, I thought I’d never see you again, and holding my hand and Everyone hugs you but me and half-naked perimeter walking. It’s severely suboptimal, Gat. If that’s the word you want to use.”
His face falls. “Damn. It sounds bad when you put it that way.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“What fun we'd had, how beautiful we were.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars