Upside Down Quotes

“If I never get lost, I’ll never be found.”
― Lia Riley, Upside Down

“People want to be with the sunflowers, those who rise and face the sky. Who prefers fungus, moss, things that grow in the world’s dank and shadowed places?

No one.”
― Lia Riley, Upside Down

“Breathing’s difficult if you overthink the action, like staring at the word the for too long. Grows unnatural, bizarrely wrong.”
― Lia Riley, Upside Down

“Pretending to be a normal, functioning member of society is exhausting stuff.”
― Lia Riley, Upside Down

“Maybe I’m turned upside down, but at last I’ve landed right side up.”
― Lia Riley, Upside Down

“here are beautiful places inside him, where laughter comes easy, where sweet words appear like surprises. But I also know his bitter valleys. The dark caves where he hides his fears, his hurts, and his disillusionments. And he knows mine.”
― Lia Riley, Upside Down

“Looks like I’m enduring a two-hour car trip with the human equivalent of a splinter—a sexy splinter.”
― Lia Riley, Upside Down

“I remember something Bran said when we were hiking in Tasmania, about how people believe they see the same river but the water is always different. I am that river.”
― Lia Riley, Upside Down

“There are beautiful places inside him, where laughter comes easy, where sweet words appear like surprises. But I also know his bitter valleys. The dark caves where he hides his fears, his hurts, and his disillusionments.”
― Lia Riley, Upside Down

“I’m a high-functioning basket case.”
― Lia Riley, Upside Down

“I’ve ripped so many shameful secrets from my belly, held them out, covered in toxic grime for his inspection, but there’s no reciprocity.”
― Lia Riley, Upside Down

“My characters blather away to each other. I simply turn up and listen.”
― Lia Riley, Upside Down

“I glance at the red-stenciled words crossing my chest—HOLDEN CAULFIELD IS MY HOMEBOY.”
― Lia Riley, Upside Down

“The world’s divided into two kinds of people.” I pause to clear my throat. “Those who love Star Wars and idiots.”
― Lia Riley, Upside Down

“want to get well and truly lost. I’d like to outrun my own name if the option is at all possible.”
― Lia Riley, Upside Down

“Don’t break your heart trying to batter against the world, okay?”
― Lia Riley, Upside Down

“He’s a few sandwiches short of a picnic,”
― Lia Riley, Upside Down