Society of Lies Quotes

“The world does not make sense. Humans are not rational decision makers—we are driven by our wants, our needs, our fears.”
― Lauren Ling Brown, Society of Lies

“It’s strange how after you lose someone, they start to fade piece by piece, until all that’s left are memories that could slip through your fingers like water.”
― Lauren Ling Brown, Society of Lies

“That’s the thing about love, isn’t it? When you find someone who sees you in a way no one else does, who understands you and makes you feel like you can’t be whole without them, it wraps you in a vise and makes you forget how to live without them.”
― Lauren Ling Brown, Society of Lies

“I wish I could tell you success was all hard work and intellect, darling, but it’s not. At least half is luck, timing, and the right mentors.”
― Lauren Ling Brown, Society of Lies

“home became the friends that kept showing up, the spaces that welcomed me.”
― Lauren Ling Brown, Society of Lies

“I imagine my mother saying from wherever she is now to take every strange adventure life presents to experience the world, not shy away from”
― Lauren Ling Brown, Society of Lies

“Ubi amici ibidem sunt opes. Where there are friends, there are riches,”
― Lauren Ling Brown, Society of Lies

“To the very end.”
― Lauren Ling Brown, Society of Lies

“Usque ad finem.”
― Lauren Ling Brown, Society of Lies

“I couldn’t sleep all night. Over and over, I replayed the detective’s words: Drug use. Excessive drinking. An overdose.”
― Lauren Ling Brown, Society of Lies

“Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me. —Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow”
― Lauren Ling Brown, Society of Lies

“When you find someone who sees you in a way no one else does, who understands you and makes you feel like you can’t be whole without them, it wraps you in a vise and makes you forget how to live life without them.”
― Lauren Ling Brown, Society of Lies

“How often, in the world, is silence what allows horrible people to get away with their crimes?”
― Lauren Ling Brown, Society of Lies

“strange adventure life presents to experience the world, not shy away from it.”
― Lauren Ling Brown, Society of Lies

“Sometimes I wondered if my mother saw me as a reflection of herself. A younger, more American version of her whose sole purpose was to live out her dreams, to achieve more than she’d been able to.”
― Lauren Ling Brown, Society of Lies

“I would remember her hair first: frozen solid and dark red with blood, matted with twigs and dirt. A bloody gash split her head, and yet her expression was calm and serene, as if she were asleep, her pale skin glittering unnaturally as sunlight reflected off the tiny flakes of ice, like a shattered porcelain doll.”
― Lauren Ling Brown, Society of Lies