Pack of Lies Quotes

“I’m a professional gamer. And a woman. You know what that’s like? I get told I’m gonna get raped, that I’m ruining the game, that I should go back to playing with Barbies, that my hair is too masculine or that my boobs are too big or small or whatever, and all kinds of stupid shit. All the time. It sucks. But I don’t let it break me and I don’t let it stop me from doing what I love, from being who I am.”
― Annie Bellet, Pack of Lies

“You did what you felt was right, for you, for that moment,” he said. “There is no shame in that. Learn from it, from these doubts and feelings and fears. Next time, make a different decision. Just remember to always decide. Inaction is death.”
― Annie Bellet, Pack of Lies

“Chain lightning,” I said. “When you absolutely, positively got to kill every last motherfucker in the room, accept no substitutes.”
― Annie Bellet, Pack of Lies

“You saved me from the slowest, most terrible death I could ever envision. You risked your life, your freedom to protect my family. As far as I am concerned, that makes you family.” Rosie’s mouth set into a line and her hazel eyes were uncomfortably kind, full of a deep understanding that wrapped around me like a physical presence. “Family,” she continued. “Family don’t give up on family just because things get dangerous. Azalea risked her life for you, same as you’d risk your life for her. Don’t belittle that choice by pretending you could make it for her. You don’t have that right.”
― Annie Bellet, Pack of Lies

“Dude,” Ezee murmured with a smile, “I think your princess is in another castle.”
― Annie Bellet, Pack of Lies

“I love it when you go all Conan on me,” I said, resisting the urge to rub my nose on his chest. “Then we will listen to the lamentations of his women, right?” I”
― Annie Bellet, Pack of Lies

“It felt like there was a switch inside of me now, waiting to be flipped.”
― Annie Bellet, Pack of Lies

“So much for hoping we were going to wreck some love tryst. Why couldn’t my life be full of sex instead of violence?”
― Annie Bellet, Pack of Lies

“Joel laughed, finished his drink, and left with a hefty tip in his back pocket. I’d delivered pizzas for a while, during one of my lives while on the run from Samir. I always tipped well after being in the trenches of pizza service.”
― Annie Bellet, Pack of Lies

“You don’t feel good because you are good,” Ji-hoon says. “Your magic is just magic, Jess. It is like lightning or the ocean. A part of the world. It can be harnessed and used for good or ill. But it just is. You choose. Today you chose to hurt. Now you know what that feels like. Tomorrow you can choose differently.”
― Annie Bellet, Pack of Lies