The Trouble in Me Quotes

“I was always a liar. But one thing I failed to realize about being a liar is that you know when you are deceiving someone else, but when you deceive yourself you believe you are telling the truth.”
― Jack Gantos, The Trouble in Me

“I’d slink back to my room and curl up on the bed like a fish-hook and cry until I was rusty.”
― Jack Gantos, The Trouble in Me

“When it came to my heart I felt everything okay, but when I tried to express my feelings the words came out of me like invisible ink.”
― Jack Gantos, The Trouble in Me

“The house is a bit of a monster, and slowly you belong to it and begin to function in it like living furniture that gets rearranged—you become another gear inside the machine of the house, or a hand puppet to your parents. You won't find freedom until you find yourself in a place that doesn't own you.”
― Jack Gantos, The Trouble in Me

“You'll see...Everyone foolishly goes through hating their past—when they should realize it is the one true thing you have.”
― Jack Gantos, The Trouble in Me

“She was always more fair to me than I was to her, and somehow this kept me from being totally honest with her.”
― Jack Gantos, The Trouble in Me