Last Light Quotes

“I could lie my way out of existence.”
― M. Pierce, Last Light

“Why did I always do the worst things? Why did I always arrange my life so that it was on the brink of collapse?”
― M. Pierce, Last Light

“He played like he wanted to break the piano.”
― M. Pierce, Last Light

“You have to be a great liar to write fiction, a real historical revisionist.”
― M. Pierce, Last Light

“You’re the lord of lies.”
― M. Pierce, Last Light

“Now it was our little joke, signifying nothing.”
― M. Pierce, Last Light

“That was how I wanted to feel: almost out of control.”
― M. Pierce, Last Light

“When people know you’re an author, they turn into weirdos. I swear.”
― M. Pierce, Last Light

“When would it be my turn to truly know him? Fear answered: Never. You’ll never know him. You can’t hold on to a man like that.”
― M. Pierce, Last Light

“We would kiss and say things we didn’t mean. Counterfeit intimacy.”
― M. Pierce, Last Light

“He draws people in without even trying. Puts them under a spell. And then he does what he always does—lies or disappears—and you break on the rocks you were too dazed to see.”
― M. Pierce, Last Light

“He’s the golden boy, you see? We always forgive him.”
― M. Pierce, Last Light

“I stretched out alongside her and pulled the covers over us. I moved against her and sighed. There. I had one perfect thing in my life.”
― M. Pierce, Last Light

“I’ll be buried in a Presbyterian cemetery. Did you know that? I’m tired enough to go there now.”
― M. Pierce, Last Light

“Let’s not live like other people. Let’s not be like other couples.”
― M. Pierce, Last Light

“You can’t see the real world anymore. Everyone becomes a caricature.”
― M. Pierce, Last Light

“They couldn’t come close to my fire. They couldn’t touch my heart.”
― M. Pierce, Last Light

“I watched ecstasy unfold on his face against a backdrop of leaves and nighttime sky. It was, inadvertently, the most romantic sex of my life, and afterward we clung to one another.”
― M. Pierce, Last Light

“You don’t see the difference between fiction and reality. Everything is your story.”
― M. Pierce, Last Light

“brooding and backspacing.”
― M. Pierce, Last Light

“She was alive in her anger, her eyes illuminated, her body electric. She gave no ground, took no excuses.”
― M. Pierce, Last Light

“I was simply lying on the tracks, waiting for the next stray train to take me out.”
― M. Pierce, Last Light

“The heart always knows what the mind refuses to accept.”
― M. Pierce, Last Light

“He looked beautiful, and fallen, like Lucifer.”
― M. Pierce, Last Light

“And Seth, who seemed so unwelcome before, now stood clearly in my mind’s eye. Vulnerable. Honest. A casualty of Matt’s game.”
― M. Pierce, Last Light

“So let them talk. Let the rumors fly.”
― M. Pierce, Last Light

“I let the people get a good look at my face, which is just another mask for the heart.”
― M. Pierce, Last Light

“the way people return to a burnt home—not to salvage it, but to wade through the wreckage and suffer.”
― M. Pierce, Last Light

“Sometimes, I felt she didn’t take me seriously. Other times, she seemed intimidated by me.”
― M. Pierce, Last Light

“That’s how it goes, right? You are who people decide you are.”
― M. Pierce, Last Light