Riley Sager > Quotes

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

“Why do boys totally suck? I'm starting to think it might be ingrained in them. Like, they're taught at a young age that they can be assholes because most women will let them get away with it.”
― Riley Sager, Lock Every Door

“Think about the people who come here," Nick says. "Writers and artists, scientists and captains of industry. Think of all they give to the world. Now think of yourself, Jules. What are you? What do you offer? Nothing.”
― Riley Sager, Lock Every Door

“Movies are like life,” she finally says. “Only better.”
― Riley Sager, Survive the Night

“[...] perception is a tricky thing. When people think of you a certain way, it's almost impossible to put that genie back in the bottle. And when the world considers someone a monster, people treat them like one, and it isn't long before that person starts to believe it as well.”
― Riley Sager, Home Before Dark

“I’m the moth that got careless with the flame. Now I’m engulfed.”
― Riley Sager, Final Girls

“Life has failed her time and time again. The movies have never let her down.”
― Riley Sager, Survive the Night

“I’d also like to take a moment to salute the many caregivers out there working in hospitals, nursing homes, and in patients’ houses. These often-unsung heroes heal the sick and comfort the suffering on a daily basis, going about their work with diligence, dignity, and pride. You care. Thank you.”
― Riley Sager, The Only One Left

“That’s another thing most people don’t understand—how quick others are to judge. And make assumptions. And presume your financial predicament is the result of stupidity, laziness, years of bad choices.”
― Riley Sager, Lock Every Door

“Although their eventual fate remains a mystery, I'm certain that what happened to those girls is all my fault.”
― Riley Sager, The Last Time I Lied

“Too much of childhood is spent being lied to by adults because they think it'll spare your feelings.”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night

“I'm a blogger?" It comes out sounding like a question. Like I have no clue what I am.”
― Riley Sager, Final Girls

“God, the worry.
It's always there. A loud hum buzzing through every waking thought. Things have gotten so bleak that I've recently started wondering how far I have left to fall before hitting bottom and what I'll do if I ever reach that point.”
― Riley Sager, Lock Every Door

“Think. That's what will get me out of this mess. Not panicking. Panic only breeds more panic.”
― Riley Sager, Lock Every Door

“The lake is darker than a coffin with the lid shut,” she’d say. “And as deep as the ocean. If you sink under, you’ll never come back up again. You’ll be trapped forever.”
― Riley Sager, The House Across the Lake

“Each time, I’m struck by how strange it is to see someone I think of as forever young looking thoroughly middle-aged. It’s the same jarring feeling I sometimes get when I look in the mirror.”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night

“With wealth comes power. Power earns you importance. And the truly important people in the world deserve to live longer than those beneath them. That's especially true as we face another epidemic.”
― Riley Sager, Lock Every Door

“He once told me our relationship was like a rose. Beautiful, yes, but it came with thorns. I liked it to the weather. It was always changing. Icy seasons. Warm spells. Months when we'd talk almost every day and long sections of radio silence.”
― Riley Sager, Home Before Dark

“I long for the quiet camaraderie only a library can provide.”
― Riley Sager, Home Before Dark

“Every so often, life offers you a reset button. When it does, you need to press it as hard as you can. Jane said that to me once. Back in our reading-on-her-bed days, when I was too young to understand what she meant. Now I do.”
― Riley Sager, Lock Every Door

“If I feel sadness, it's the same simmering grief I always experience. The kind of pain I long ago learned to love with.”
― Riley Sager, Lock Every Door

“People don't lie unless they're hiding something.”
― Riley Sager, Home Before Dark

“Then it hits me. Hard. I'm like a nail struck by a hammer - brittle, quivering, sinking deeper into something from which there is no escape.”
― Riley Sager, Final Girls

“I'm sure someone would say it's my own damn fault. That it was my responsibility to build an emergency fund. At least three months' salary, the experts say. I would love to backhand whoever came up with that number. They clearly never had a job with take-home pay that barely covers rent, food, and utilities. Because here's the thing about being poor-most people don't understand it unless they've been there themselves.”
― Riley Sager, Lock Every Door

“I was friendly but friendless. Approachable yet purposefully aloof. I saw no point in getting too close with anyone.”
― Riley Sager, Final Girls

“Hakuna matata, dude.”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night

“So I shouldn't care that I'm a little weird?

All you should care about is being yourself, no matter who that person is. Some people might not like you for who you are, but a whole bunch of people will. I promise.”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night

“Memories, though, are a different matter. They’re filled with ghosts.”
― Riley Sager, The House Across the Lake

“What I do recall is colored by what’s in the Book. Instead of memories, I have excerpts. It’s like looking at a photograph of a photograph. The framing is off. The colors are dulled. The image is slightly dark.”
― Riley Sager, Home Before Dark

“Alcoholism is an occupational hazard of being an actor, of being a widow, and of being alone. And I’m all three.”
― Riley Sager, The House Across the Lake