The Safest Lies Quotes

“The danger is everywhere. It’s everyone. It’s the parts we keep hidden, and the darkness inside, fighting to get out. The only thing I did was take people down with me. They tied themselves to my anchor, and we fell.”
― Megan Miranda, The Safest Lies

“Was it possible to want to come face to face with someone while also wanting to wipe them from existence?”
― Megan Miranda, The Safest Lies

“Fears were learned, but they were also inherited. Natural Selection. Run from the lion. Jump away from the tiny, poisonous insects. They exist for a reason--we survive because of them.”
― Megan Miranda, The Safest Lies

“That fear can be passed down, conditioned, woven into the very core of us, down to the expression of our DNA.”
― Megan Miranda, The Safest Lies

“loneliness was something felt more powerfully in a crowd.”
― Megan Miranda, The Safest Lies

“There was no big falling-out; she just stopped answering her phone. Our friendship just kind of fizzled, like a sparkler burning down to your fingers. By the time you realize you were being burned, it was too late—the damage done, the spark already extinguished.”
― Megan Miranda, The Safest Lies

“My future was in the hands of someone who didn't understand basic trigonometry. What if he got the angle wrong? Misjudged the timing? How could I trust someone who didn't understand the geometry of a right triangle?
This seat belt was strapped across my chest at a right angle. The branches and the car and the cliff--all angles. This was a goddamn real-world application.”
― Megan Miranda, The Safest Lies

“painted pale”
― Megan Miranda, The Safest Lies

“Impossible choices, and I had to start making them.
Little trades, like chips at your morality--strip away what you think you're supposed to do, what you're told you're supposed to do--and keep chipping in the dark, until all that's left is you.”
― Megan Miranda, The Safest Lies

“of all the things I'd either inherited or learned from my mother, the art of the lie was the most useful.”
― Megan Miranda, The Safest Lies

“Our friendship just kind of fizzled, like a sparkler burning down to your fingers. By the time you realize you were being burned, it was too late - the damage done, the spark already extinguished.”
― Megan Miranda, The Safest Lies