We Were Liars

by E. Lockhart

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,

Ummm how are you living hun

One day I looked at Gat, lying in the Clairmont hammock with a book, and he seemed, well, like he was mine. Like he was my particular person.

Ma'am. Aint he your cousin ?!

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.

I am confused

many stars, it seemed like a celebration, a grand, illicit party the galaxy was holding after the humans had been put to bed.

Why i love the lords creations

“Be a little kinder than you have to.”

If we all did this our world would be so much better .

“Do not accept an evil you can change.”

One day, she ventured to the palace library and was delighted to find what good company books could be.

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

“A part of me died,” he says. “And it was the best part.” “You think so?” I ask. “That is all there is to say about it,” says Granddad.

“Why don’t you believe in sunblock again?” I ask Johnny. “It’s a conspiracy,” he says.

I agree .

“I fell for you so hard, Cady. There was no stopping it. I know I should have told you everything and I should have broken it off with Raquel right away.

I NEED A GUY TO BE THIS IN LOVE WITH MEEEEE

More than a dozen dried beach roses spill out.

AGAINNNN I NEED SOMEONE LIKE HIM

Now, he was free to go forth and make a name for himself in the wide, wide world. And maybe, just maybe, he’d come back one day, and burn that fucking palace to the ground.

and neither one of us begged Granddad for the fucking tablecloths.