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“I didn't kill Gabriel. Gabriel killed me. All I did was pull the trigger.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.”
― Steve Cavanagh, Thirteen

“Who will look for you when you’re the one who disappears?”
― Holly Jackson, As Good As Dead

“I stand and hold out my hand. She gives me a skeptical look, but takes it and lets me pull her to her feet. I put my other hand in the air. 'Bronwyn Rojas, I solemnly swear not to murder you today or at any point in the future. Deal?'
'You're ridiculous,' she mutters, going even redder.
'It concerns me you're avoiding a promise not to murder me.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Lying

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

“I didn’t want to die. Not yet; not when I hadn’t lived.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“Some people are pretty good at hiding who they really are.”
― Holly Jackson, Good Girl, Bad Blood

“Whatever good things you’ve heard about me probably aren’t true. Whatever bad things you’ve heard are probably just the tip of the iceberg,” I said.”
― Steve Cavanagh, Thirteen

“Things'll get worse before they get better.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Lying

“I don't know why it's so hard for people to admit that sometimes they're just assholes who screw up because they don't expect to get caught.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Lying

“Unless one of us is lying. Which is always a possibility.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Lying

“yes, sometimes she read too much. Sometimes, she read books instead of living a life,”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“She doesn’t see the point in staying alive only to do all the same things that made her want to die.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive, and will come forth later, in uglier ways. —SIGMUND FREUD”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“No one is born evil. As Winnicott put it, “A baby cannot hate the mother, without the mother first hating the baby.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“We're all crazy, I believe, just in different ways.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“There’s so much pain everywhere, and we just close our eyes to it. The truth is we’re all scared. We’re terrified of each other.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“The aim of therapy is not to correct the past, but to enable the patient to confront his own history, and to grieve over it. —ALICE MILLER”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“Trust, once lost, is hard to recover.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“Somehow grasping at vanishing snowflakes is like grasping at happiness: an act of possession that instantly gives way to nothing.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“Perhaps some of us are simply born evil, and despite our best efforts we remain that way.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“Real men wear floral when trespassing”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

“Hey Sarge, remember me?”
― Holly Jackson, As Good As Dead

“I'm not sure I'm the good girl i once thought i was . I've lost her along the way”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

“women can be just as dangerous as men.”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

“I’ve already learned my lesson here: when you catch someone lying about a murdered girl, you go ask them why.”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

“Mourning is sometimes a dull ache that won’t leave, and other times it’s like pricking your finger on a needle hidden in a shopping bag.”
― Steve Cavanagh, Kill for Me Kill for You

“Words never weigh so much as when they’re spoken for somebody else.”
― Steve Cavanagh, Thirteen

“I think I'll stick around as a defense attorney for a while yet,' I said.
'Why? Look at all this has cost you, Eddie. Why do it?'
I wasn't even looking at Harry, but I could sense be already knew the answer.
'Because I can. Because I have to. Because there will always be the Art Pryors and Rudy Carps of this business. Somebody's gotta do the right thing.'
'It doesn't always have to be you,' said Harry.
'What if everyone said that? What if nobody stood up for anyone because they expected the other guy to do it? Somebody has to be standing on the other side of the line. And if I fall, somebody will have to come along and take my place. All I have to do is keep standing for as long as I can.”
― Steve Cavanagh, Th1rt3en

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa