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“I’ve hope to live, and am prepared to die.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“It kills me sometimes, how people die.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“I am haunted by humans.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Even death has a heart.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“When did we become such terrible people?”
“Maybe we’ve always been terrible.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“Do you blame Shakespeare for any of it?”
The question is so unlikely, so nonsensical coming from such a sensible man, that I can’t suppress a smile. “I blame him for all of it.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“We had, like seven siblings, spent so much time together that we had seen the best and worst of one another and were unimpressed by either.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“Through the thorns, to the stars”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“His arm fell lifelessly to his side. He looked away and said, “Oliver, I don’t know what’s wrong with me. I want to hurt the whole world.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“He drowned himself on the last day of December, and though the local authorities dragged the freezing water for days and miles, his body was never found.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“I knew you better than you knew yourself. I was terrified you’d do exactly what you did.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“First, the reckoning. Then, the fall.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“We are liars. We are beautiful and privileged. We are cracked and broken.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“Here I am frozen, when I deserve to burn.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“One day, she ventured to the palace library and was delighted to find what good company books could be.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“I'll be fine, they tell me. I won't die. It'll just hurt a lot.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“We are Sinclairs. Beautiful. Privileged. Damaged. Liar. We live, least in the summertime, on a private island off the coast of Massachusetts. Perhaps that is all you need to know.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“A part of me died,” he says. “And it was the best part.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“LIFE FEELS BEAUTIFUL that day. The four of us Liars, we have always been. We always will be. No matter what happens as we go to college, grow old, build lives for ourselves; no matter if Gat and I are together or not. No matter where we go, we will always be able to line up on the roof of Cuddledown and gaze at the sea. This island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“We were warm and shivering,
and young and ancient,
and alive.
I was thinking, it's true. We already love each other.
We already do.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“You remind us that we’re selfish bastards. You’re not one of us, that way.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“We read all twenty-eight emails. When she is finished, Mirren kisses me on the cheek. "I can't even say sorry," she tells me. "There is not even a Scrabble word for how bad I feel.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“Now, let me ask you this. Who killed the girls? The dragon? Or their father?”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“Open their souls. Open their veins. Wipe off their smiles.
Be a family. Stay a family.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“And maybe, just maybe, he’d come back one day, and burn that fucking palace to the ground.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“I guess that is why they’ve been here. I needed them.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“When we say Shut up, Gat, that isn’t what we mean at all.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“We tossed stones into the water. We just existed.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars