Riley Sager > Quotes

“When you stare into the abyss, the abyss also stares into you.”
― Riley Sager, Home Before Dark

“I'm starting to think I don't belong anywhere. That it's my lot in life to occupy limbo al my own.”
― Riley Sager, Lock Every Door

“Why bother if you’re not going to give it your all?”
― Riley Sager, The House Across the Lake

“I make jokes,” I say, “because it’s easier to pretend I’m not feeling what I’m feeling than to actually feel it.”
― Riley Sager, The House Across the Lake

“We grow up expecting our parents to live forever until, one day, they’re suddenly gone.”
― Riley Sager, Lock Every Door

“There's something energizing about getting what you want, even if that something is shame.”
― Riley Sager, Final Girls

“There’s such a thing as too much sweetness, Quincy, he told me. All the best bakers know this. There needs to be a counterpoint. Something dark. Or bitter. Or sour. Unsweetened chocolate. Cardamom and cinnamon. Lemon and lime. They cut through all the sugar, taming it just enough so that when you do taste the sweetness, you appreciate it all the more.”
― Riley Sager, Final Girls

“But somehow we screamed louder, ran faster, fought harder. We survived.”
― Riley Sager

“That’s the tricky thing about movies. They can be wonderful and beautiful and amazing. But they’re not like life, which is wonderful, beautiful, and amazing in a different way.”
― Riley Sager, Survive the Night

“No matter how much you look, something just beneath the surface will always remain hidden. I should know. I’ve been watching.”
― Riley Sager, The House Across the Lake

“After all, following someone on social media is just a more acceptable form of spying.”
― Riley Sager, The House Across the Lake

“Every house has a story. Ours is a ghost story. It’s also a lie. And now that yet another person has died within these walls, it’s finally time to tell the truth.”
― Riley Sager, Home Before Dark

“That girl is gone now, replaced by someone wiser and harder but no less hopeful.”
― Riley Sager, Lock Every Door

“The elevator resembles a birdcage. The tall, ornate kind - all thin bars and gilded exterior. I even think of birds as I step inside. Exotic and bright and lush. Everything I'm not.”
― Riley Sager, Lock Every Door

“Baking is a science, as rigorous as chemistry or physics. There are rules that must be followed. Too much of one thing and not enough of another can lead to ruin. I find comfort in this. Outside, the world is an unruly place where men prowl with sharpened knives. In baking, there is only order.”
― Riley Sager, Final Girls

“Because that's how I feel. Like I'm perched on the edge of a great chasm, waiting for the slightest breeze to shove me screaming into it.”
― Riley Sager, Lock Every Door

“Finally, I cry for all the versions of myself that have existed through the years. Confused five-year-old. Sullen child of divorce. Furious nine-year-old. Inquisitive me. Defiant me. Dutiful me. So many incarnations, each one seeking answers, leading me to right here, to right now, to a potential truth I have no idea how to handle.”
― Riley Sager, Home Before Dark

“Maybe I’m not looking for trouble. Maybe I am the trouble.”
― Riley Sager, The House Across the Lake

“There’s safety in numbers, yes, but also uncertainty.”
― Riley Sager, Final Girls

“Few things in life are more disappointing than knowing your parents aren’t being honest with you.”
― Riley Sager, Home Before Dark

“I take a deep breath, trying to collect my thoughts. But they’re an unruly, unreliable bunch. My skull feels like a snow globe recently shaken, swirling with important bits of information that have yet to land. And I can’t grasp”
― Riley Sager, Lock Every Door

“She’s capable of so little yet accused of so much, and I remain torn between wanting to protect her and the urge to suspect her.”
― Riley Sager, The Only One Left

“Anyway, that's the lessen I learned today, Every woman is crazy. The ones who can't hide it well enough are shit out of luck.”
― Riley Sager, The Last Time I Lied

“Something most people don't realize until they're older. But everyone is a little weird. Some people hide it more than others, but it's true, Everyone is weird.”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night

“But I knew that looks could be deceiving. And that even prisons could appear lovely if lit the right way.”
― Riley Sager, The Only One Left

“Sometimes, Mags, a couple can go through something so terrible that not even love can fix it.”
― Riley Sager, Home Before Dark

“I'm the kind of girl you don't want to fuck with.”
― Riley Sager, Lock Every Door

“I make no attempts to disguise my scars. I just pretend they don’t exist.”
― Riley Sager, Final Girls

“Final Girl is film-geek speak for the last woman standing at the end of a horror movie.”
― Riley Sager, Final Girls

“It's possible to love someone while hating something they've done.”
― Riley Sager, The Only One Left