Unbecoming Quotes

“You need one person who knows you... Just one person you can't fool, even when you fool yourself.”
― Rebecca Scherm, Unbecoming

“Real liars don’t lie about anything,” Hanna said. “They just lie. ‘About’ is a word liars use to justify their lying, to make it seem like a localized problem.” “You’ve made quite a study,” Grace said, trying to sound light and wry. “But I still don’t know,” Hanna said. “And that upsets me. With a liar, you can never know the whole truth, ever. You can’t ever be sure that this version is the real version. There is no end, no bottom. Sometimes I wonder if the whole thing was a hoax.”
― Rebecca Scherm, Unbecoming

“Lies charged compound interest. You tried to fix what you had broken before you were found out, making little payments as you could afford to, just enough to keep the whole weight of it at bay. But the lie kept growing and growing. You could never pay it off, not without losing everything. The cost was total.”
― Rebecca Scherm, Unbecoming

“Anger was simple, self-sustaining as a cactus. You couldn't look too closely at it, lest the spines get you in the eye.”
― Rebecca Scherm, Unbecoming

“Art was there to scratch at people’s brains, to help ideas find traction in metaphor that they could not when made explicit.”
― Rebecca Scherm, Unbecoming

“Then practice losing farther, losing faster.”
― Rebecca Scherm, Unbecoming

“Boys never seemed stupider than when they were surprised by the bad behavior of other men.”
― Rebecca Scherm, Unbecoming

“But that was the least of it. He knew the worst of her, and that was better.”
― Rebecca Scherm, Unbecoming

“The universe would give you whatever you wanted if you twisted its arm hard enough.”
― Rebecca Scherm, Unbecoming

“She hadn't realized she was lonely until she began to understand that other people were not.”
― Rebecca Scherm, Unbecoming

“Grace hated lying, got no joy from it, and this was how she knew she wasn't pathological.”
― Rebecca Scherm, Unbecoming

“The best lies were the simplest and made the most sense, in the mind and in the mouth.”
― Rebecca Scherm, Unbecoming