Riley Sager > Quotes

“I honestly have no idea how to respond. Do I feel relaxed after being suspended without pay six months ago? Is it refreshing being forced to sleep in my childhood bedroom and tiptoe around my silent, seething father, whose disappointment colors our every interaction?”
― Riley Sager, The Only One Left

“God, she must think I'm insane. I'd think the same thing if I didn't know the reasons behind my recklessness.”
― Riley Sager, Lock Every Door

“pain you thought was gone comes roaring back.”
― Riley Sager, Home Before Dark

“You know there’s no such thing as ghosts, right?” I said. “You’re wrong.” Maggie slid deeper under the covers. “I’ve seen them.”
― Riley Sager, Home Before Dark

“A naked Barbie lies facedown in the carpet like a murder victim.”
― Riley Sager, Home Before Dark

“I don't know if this is my fault or theirs. Maybe I pushed them away without realizing it. Or maybe it's just a natural by-product of my downward spiral. That loss inevitably begets loss.”
― Riley Sager, Lock Every Door

“There are plenty of openings available, just not for me. The curse of being your basic office drone. I’m a dime a dozen, and everyone is looking for a quarter.”
― Riley Sager, Lock Every Door

“While I’d assumed that was the case, it feels different when that assumption is confirmed. Because deep down, I never wanted to believe it. For decades I’d harbored faint hopes and what-ifs. Now that I know I was wrong all this time, it feels like I’m floating.”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night

“A spoonful of sugar, Quinn, he’d say. The song doesn’t lie.”
― Riley Sager, Final Girls

“Just because someone leaves their home doesn't mean they no longer love it. Nor does it mean they won't do anything to help it.”
― Riley Sager, With a Vengeance

“Life is hard. There’s no point denying it. The world is often brutal and cruel, and it only seems to get harder as time marches forward. The pressures and dangers kids face today are so much worse than when I was that age. I”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night

“They, too, had a choice --- to continue fighting a battle they had no chance of winning or to willingly wrap themselves in the sweet embrace of nothingness.”
― Riley Sager, Lock Every Door

“Yes, boys can break your heart and betray you, but not in the same stinging way girls can.”
― Riley Sager, The Last Time I Lied

“Just because I’m smoking hot doesn’t make me illiterate. Hot girls read.”
― Riley Sager, The Last Time I Lied

“Because here’s the thing about details—they can also be a distraction. Add too many and it obscures the brutal truth about a situation.”
― Riley Sager, Final Girls

“In this world, weird kids are bully magnets, and she fears life will only get worse for Billy if he doesn’t lower his freak flag a little bit. “This world gets crazier every”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night

“Hot girls read.”
― Riley Sager, The Last Time I Lied

“I avoid all forms of social media, which are basically hazardous waste sites with varying levels of toxicity.”
― Riley Sager, The House Across the Lake

“DEATH IS MERELY AN ILLUSION”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night

“On the TV is a clip of President Reagan giving a speech about the economy”
― Riley Sager, The Only One Left

“My mother assured me not to worry. That by reading, whole worlds could be explored without ever leaving home.”
― Riley Sager, The Only One Left

“- It's hard meeting people.
- I've found that not to be true. Meeting people is easy. Keeping them around is the hard part.”
― Riley Sager, Survive the Night

“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

“I’m going to be a police detective like my uncle.” she says. “Why write about crimes when you can solve them in real life?”
― Riley Sager, The Last Time I Lied

“A month before her family was slaughtered, Lenora Hope had been pregnant.”
― Riley Sager, The Only One Left

“probably shouldn’t be telling you this, but I’ve got some confiscated Ambien in my purse,” Detective Palmer says, deadly serious. “Pop one, wash it down with some whiskey, and you’ll be out like a light. It usually does the trick for me.” While I’m tempted—and increasingly intrigued by her personal life—I decline the offer. The goal here is to wake up as the tent is being sliced open, not drop into a coma.”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night

“E como eu poderia me tornar uma grande escritora sem ter sentido na pela nenhuma experiência que me servisse de inspiração para escrever?”
― Riley Sager, The Only One Left

“It sounds romantic through the soft gauze of time. In truth, it was probably wretched.”
― Riley Sager, Lock Every Door

“Emily Dickinson. “Because I Could Not Stop for Death.”
― Riley Sager, Lock Every Door

“Over its hundred-year history, the Gothic structure overlooking Central Park has witnessed death in many forms, including murder, suicide, and, in its first notable tragedy, plague.”
― Riley Sager, Lock Every Door