B. We Were Liars

We Were Liars

Highlights

Then he pulled out a handgun and shot me in the chest. I was standing on the lawn and I fell. The bullet hole opened wide and my heart rolled out of my rib cage and down into a flower bed. Blood gushed rhythmically from my open wound, — location: 159

I am not talking about fate. I don’t believe in destiny or soul mates or the supernatural. I just mean we understood each other. All the way. — location: 273

“The universe is seeming really huge right now,” he told me. “I need something to hold on to.” — location: 376

Silence is a protective coating over pain.” I understood, and I managed to erase Granny Tipper from conversation, the same way I had erased my father. Not happily, but thoroughly. — location: 475

Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you. — location: 496

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. — location: 597

idyll — location: 1100

suboptimal — location: 1187

intones — location: 1375

“Be a little kinder than you have to.” We are all silenced by that. It seems impossible to argue with. Then Johnny says, “Never eat anything bigger than your ass.” — location: 1392

“Do not accept an evil you can change.” “I agree with that,” I say. Because I do. — location: 1397

If you want to live where people are not afraid of mice, you must give up living in palaces. — location: 1471

“A part of me died,” he says. “And it was the best part.” — location: 1554

“You have a life stretching out in front of you with a million possibilities,” — location: 1777

“You didn’t have to do that stuff,” said Mummy. “Nobody asked you to.” “Nobody else was there to do it. You let me do it, and never thanked me. — location: 2304

You shouldn’t carry the weight of it,” he says. “Be sad, be sorry—but don’t shoulder it.” — location: 2875

It is good to be loved, even though it will not last. — location: 2907

and the king, he descended into a delicate madness from which his old self only sometimes emerged. — location: 2970