Olivia Porter > Olivia's Quotes

“Ezra watches them leave with a bemused expression, then turns to me. “I have a really strong feeling that on Wednesdays, they wear pink.”
― Karen M. McManus, Two Can Keep a Secret

“When you come into the world with another person, they’re as much a part of you as your heartbeat.”
― Karen M. McManus, Two Can Keep a Secret

“All of Fright Farm's success is based on how much people love to be scared in a controlled environment. There's something deeply satisfying about confronting a monster and escaping unscathed. Real monsters aren't anything like that. They don't let go”
― Karen M. McManus, Two Can Keep a Secret

“Welcome to life in a small town. You’re only as good as the best thing your family’s done. Or the worst.”
― Karen M. McManus, Two Can Keep a Secret

“I thought she was your mother.”
― Karen M. McManus, Two Can Keep a Secret

“or maybe we’re finally figuring out that we haven’t been normal for years and it’s time to redefine the word.”
― Karen M. McManus, Two Can Keep a Secret

“Population 4,935.’ Never changed the entire eighteen years I lived there,” she’d say with a smirk. “Apparently if you’re going to bring someone in, you have to take someone out first.”
― Karen M. McManus, Two Can Keep a Secret

“but if years of reading true-crime books and watching Dateline have taught me anything, it’s this: it’s always the boyfriend.”
― Karen M. McManus, Two Can Keep a Secret

“What date was the car brought in, again?” “August thirty-first,” she says. “August thirty-first.” I repeat. My skin prickles, every nerve twitching. Ezra tilts his head. “Why do you look like you just swallowed a grenade?” “Because we came in from LA the night before that. August thirtieth, remember? The hailstorm. The night Mr. Bowman was killed in a hit-and-run.” Nobody says anything for a second, and I tap the paper Mia is holding. “Front of vehicle damage due to unknown impact?”
― Karen M. McManus, Two Can Keep a Secret

“Sorry your mom drove her car into a jewelry store while she was high on opioids and had to go to rehab for four months.”
― Karen M. McManus, Two Can Keep a Secret

“Your brother saved you.”
― Karen M. McManus, Two Can Keep a Secret

“Ellery's eyes are steady on mine, her lips curved in a small, questioning smile. I draw her face closer and before I can overthink it, I kiss her.”
― Karen M. McManus, Two Can Keep a Secret

“They never yelled, just walked around with so much simmering resentment that it spread through the entire house like poisonous gas.”
― Karen M. McManus, Two Can Keep a Secret

“at some point over the years, they’d stopped liking one another. They never yelled, just walked around with so much simmering resentment that it spread through the entire house like poisonous gas.”
― Karen M. McManus, Two Can Keep a Secret

“Ahora mismo he estado a punto de contárselo. Quería hacerlo. Pero, una vez dicho, no hay manera de retirarlo.”
― Karen M. McManus, Two Can Keep a Secret

“Come find us at lunch. We sit at the back table next to the biggest window.” She turns away without waiting for an answer, blond hair sweeping across her shoulders. Ezra watches them leave with a bemused expression, then turns to me. “I have a really strong feeling that on Wednesdays, they wear pink.” Ezra and I have most of the same classes that morning, except for right before lunch, when I head to AP calculus and Ezra goes to geometry. Math isn’t his strong suit. So I end up going to the cafeteria on my own. I make my way through the food line assuming that he’ll join me at any minute, but when I exit with a full tray, he’s still nowhere in sight.”
― Karen M. McManus, Two Can Keep a Secret

“thought she was your mother.”
― Karen M. McManus, Two Can Keep a Secret

“Then she nips lightly at my bottom lip and the heat turns into an electric jolt.”
― Karen M. McManus, Two Can Keep a Secret

“Is it too soon for a bathroom break?”
― Karen M. McManus, Two Can Keep a Secret

“Peter’s like one of those suave GQ watch ads come to life”
― Karen M. McManus, Two Can Keep a Secret

“Hay algo profunda y fundamentalmente satisfactorio en enfrentarse a un monstruo y escapar sano y salvo de él.”
― Karen M. McManus, Two Can Keep a Secret

“She moves a little closer, brushing against my hip, and an electric charge runs through me.”
― Karen M. McManus, Two Can Keep a Secret

“Like only Corcoran twin gets to move on.”
― Karen M. McManus, Two Can Keep a Secret

“place I’ve ever lived. Nearly every house is spacious”
― Karen M. McManus, Two Can Keep a Secret

“Katrin would either have to be so desperate that she lost all sense of right and wrong, or be a cold-blooded killer.”
― Karen M. McManus, Two Can Keep a Secret

“On August 8, Phineas Smith died,”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me