The Big Lie Quotes

“I kept watching Lilli though. I wanted to see what was going on in her brain. Which of her memories was winning the fight? Was it Dad all of those evenings, sitting in the dark of the dining room, focused intently, hypnotized by the flickering monitor of a small, flat computer that opened like a book? Was it the sensation of her little nail-bitten fingers once or twice being allowed to touch its delicious keys? Or was it that moment - the one where Dad shot her down and told her she was wrong?

I guessed the last one. It packed quite a punch.”
― Julie Mayhew, The Big Lie

“You have to make a choice. Do you fight, or do you keep your head down? Do you put your chin up and your eyes to the sky, or do you tremble like the aspen leaves and contemplate throwing yourself in the fast-flowing river at the bottom of the garden? Or is there, I asked myself, a way to do both? Can you be two people - someone to fool them, and also someone who is not a fool to yourself? Can you live like that?”
― Julie Mayhew, The Big Lie