If You Tell a Lie Quotes

“Do you know how freeing it was to live in a world where you didn’t give a fuck what people thought about you? Especially as a woman? There’s no better feeling on the planet. At least I haven’t found one yet.”
― Lucinda Berry, If You Tell a Lie

“Do you know how much work it takes to pretend like you’re fine every day? To be the sunshine when you’re really the darkness?”
― Lucinda Berry, If You Tell a Lie

“But she did. It was written all over her with the same earnestness that was there when we’d made the promise.”
― Lucinda Berry, If You Tell a Lie

“Being ignored was like being a ghost, and that’s exactly how I felt most of the time at my school.”
― Lucinda Berry, If You Tell a Lie

“Plus, I was too scared of my own secrets. Because that summer was also the summer I figured out I was gay, and I would’ve done anything to keep people from finding out. Absolutely anything. It was pure survival.”
― Lucinda Berry, If You Tell a Lie

“It’s not like Blakely actually physically killed Jared. Was the one to hold the knife in her hand and stab him 117 times. That kind of annihilation was all about rage. That’s what the forensic psychologist said at the trial, anyway. You didn’t want to just end someone’s life—you wanted to destroy it.”
― Lucinda Berry, If You Tell a Lie

“don’t”
― Lucinda Berry, If You Tell a Lie

“Seven seconds. That’s how long it took him to slip his fingers down my pants and change my life forever. Seven seconds. That’s all it took to change your life forever too. My mom always warned me to keep my legs closed and watch out for the predators. But she told me they were out there. She never told me they were at home. Seven seconds. That’s how long it took me to forget and exactly how long it took for me to remember when they told me what you’d done. Seven seconds. That’s all it took to kill you.”
― Lucinda Berry, If You Tell a Lie

“I couldn’t help but realize how alive I felt. Really, truly alive, after all these years. Like how you do when you’re a kid and each day is a brand-new and exciting adventure. Where you wake up sprinting out of bed rather than wanting to immediately lie back down and pull the covers over your head. I spent most of my days sleepwalking through my life, with all the days blending together as one.”
― Lucinda Berry, If You Tell a Lie

“The fact that there was a way for her to not be in excruciating pain every day and the only thing holding us back from the cure was money infuriated me. It just wasn’t fair that the people who got the best treatment were the ones who could pay for it. While the rest of us were at the mercy of our meager bank accounts, even though we worked just as hard.”
― Lucinda Berry, If You Tell a Lie

“hyperphagia. That’s an increased drive to eat and impaired satiety.’ That means they’re still hungry after they eat.”
― Lucinda Berry, If You Tell a Lie

“We all had our secrets. That’s one thing I knew for sure about life. What we looked like and how we represented ourselves on the outside were often two entirely different things.”
― Lucinda Berry, If You Tell a Lie

“Because people like him? Ones that sexually abuse young girls who look up to them as heroes? They don’t ever get better. They don’t ever change.”
― Lucinda Berry, If You Tell a Lie

“A world without God was just like you’d imagine it to be—dark. Real dark.”
― Lucinda Berry, If You Tell a Lie

“Do you know how freeing it was to live in a world where you didn’t give a fuck what people thought about you? Especially as a woman? There’s no better feeling on the planet.”
― Lucinda Berry, If You Tell a Lie

“It’s funny how one sentence spoken over your life in fourth grade could change things forever.”
― Lucinda Berry, If You Tell a Lie

“This was why I hated lying. You couldn’t just tell one lie. One lie led to another and another, like an alcoholic who couldn’t have just one drink.”
― Lucinda Berry, If You Tell a Lie

“It wasn’t until I met Claire and was genuinely loved for the first time in my life that I was safe enough to be who I was.”
― Lucinda Berry, If You Tell a Lie

“For the first time in their spoiled, entitled lives, they were going to live like the rest of us.”
― Lucinda Berry, If You Tell a Lie

“The best way to live your life was to learn to love yourself—really, truly love yourself—and accept yourself exactly as you were. Nothing broken in need of fixing. Perfectly whole.”
― Lucinda Berry, If You Tell a Lie

“I carried it with me like this demon I couldn’t let anyone else see. This darkness. Part of the shame was that I thought I was the only one living with such a beast. But then I learned I wasn’t the only one living with a demon, and somehow that made it okay to have mine.”
― Lucinda Berry, If You Tell a Lie

“Killing Regina had brought us together as a couple in a way that no amount of marriage therapy had ever done.”
― Lucinda Berry, If You Tell a Lie

“I shot my inner child a long time ago, along with the white horse she was waiting for someone to come riding in on to save her.”
― Lucinda Berry, If You Tell a Lie

“body”
― Lucinda Berry, If You Tell a Lie

“My mom always warned me to keep my legs closed and watch out for the predators. But she told me they were out there. She never told me they were at home. Seven seconds. That’s how long it took me to forget and exactly how long it took for me to remember when they told me what you’d done. Seven seconds. That’s all it took to kill you.”
― Lucinda Berry, If You Tell a Lie

“Seven seconds. That’s how long it took him to slip his fingers down my pants and change my life forever. Seven seconds. That’s all it took to”
― Lucinda Berry, If You Tell a Lie

“seconds.”
― Lucinda Berry, If You Tell a Lie

“and I’d never felt more privileged than I did in that moment. Because I might not have grown up rich, but I’d always grown up loved.”
― Lucinda Berry, If You Tell a Lie

“Things that bad didn’t go unpunished.”
― Lucinda Berry, If You Tell a Lie

“I think there’s a part of us that never changes, no matter how old we get. The essence of who we are—our soul—never changes.”
― Lucinda Berry, If You Tell a Lie