Seven Ways We Lie Quotes

“Sometimes you go a long time having fooled yourself into thinking that you're as grown-up as you'll ever be, or that you're more mature than the rest of the world thinks you are, and you live in this state of constant self-assurance, and for a while nothing can upset you from this pedestal you've built for yourself, because you imagine yourself to be so capable. And then somebody does something that takes a golf club to your ego, and suddenly you're nine years old again, pieced together from humiliation and gawky youthfulness and childlike ideas like, Somebody please tell me what to do, nobody taught me how to handle this, God, just look at all the things I still don't understand, and you can't muster up the presence of mind to do anything but stand there, stare, silent, sorry.”
― Riley Redgate, Seven Ways We Lie

“Though I guess if you love someone, the thought of losing their approval is probably twice as terrifying.”
― Riley Redgate, Seven Ways We Lie

“I think I'm beginning to understand
how hearts fit together.
Not like diseased carnations that lean against their crutches.
Not like vines that twine tight, throttling their hosts.
But like two trees:
two systems of deep, untangled roots,
two patterns of flowering branches,
whose leaves drink their own sunlight
and breathe their own air.
Two trees with something slung between them,
a hammock or a tapestry or a swing,
some third, beautiful thing
that neither would die without.
Hearts fit together like hands.
Not by necessity.
By choice.”
― Riley Redgate, Seven Ways We Lie

“My body is not yours. I don't owe you, I don't owe boys some fucked-up compensation for my reputation, I don't owe the public an apology for my personal life, I don't owe anyone a goddamn thing, so get out of my life and stay out!”
― Riley Redgate, Seven Ways We Lie

“The story pours over me like water, drips down onto my head until I'm immersed head-to-toe, transported between the covers.”
― Riley Redgate, Seven Ways We Lie

“There’s a point where procrastination turns into resignation that you will never do what you need to do,”
― Riley Redgate, Seven Ways We Lie

“We are always moving forward--I can see it now. We are hurtling through our lives. We are never standing still.”
― Riley Redgate, Seven Ways We Lie

“Life is better when it’s scripted.”
― Riley Redgate, Seven Ways We Lie

“You know what they say. Three things last forever: faith, hope and spite. And the greatest of these is spite.”
― Riley Redgate, Seven Ways We Lie

“There's a point where procrastination turns into resignation that you will never do what you need to do, and I hit that point, like, two hours ago, after opening a Word document in a short-lived fit of optimism. At this point, anything I write will seem like one hundred percent bullshit when I read it over tomorrow morning, so is this even worth it? Signs point to no.”
― Riley Redgate, Seven Ways We Lie

“What did they say?" Juni asks me over the cafeteria table. "I didn't catch whatever profoundly unnecessary insult it was."

"Ho-livia," I explain over the chatter echoing off the cafeteria ceiling. "It's funny, because ho means whore and also rhymes with the first syllable of my name. Ha-ha. Excellent joke.”
― Riley Redgate, Seven Ways We Lie

“You don't realize how alone you are until you let yourself out of your cage, or until someone finds a way inside.”
― Riley Redgate, Seven Ways We Lie

“...right," I say, clicking my pen. "I'd rather die than do a skit about Inferno, so there's that."

"You know it?" he asks.

"What?"

"Like, have you read it?" Matt has a quiet, husky voice. He rushes through words as if he's not allowed to be talking.

"Just excerpts, but I know the plot," I say. "Basically, Virgil gives Dante this guided tour of the nine circles of hell, and Dante wanders around judging people and fainting a ton. Which is kinda like, it seems sorta dangerous to drop unconscious in hell of all places, but I guess my experience there is limited, so.”
― Riley Redgate, Seven Ways We Lie

“It's sort of hilarious, though, how so many... kids like to think they're social outcasts, talking with people who are obviously their friends about 'never fitting in'. They have no idea. If they did, they wouldn't glamorize it. The reality of isolation is glamorous and unexciting" -Kat”
― Riley Redgate, Seven Ways We Lie

“Here, I choose to love what I have. Here, I choose to love what I am now”
― Riley Redgate, Seven Ways We Lie

“I stand there looking after him with the feeling that - just like that, in one careless moment - I might've ruined somebody's life.”
― Riley Redgate, Seven Ways We Lie

“No, don’t argue. Just do it. Man, do I have to force you into everything? I swear, when you get married, I’m gonna be standing at the altar pinching you between every vow.”
― Riley Redgate, Seven Ways We Lie

“You don't realize how alone you are until you let yourself out of your cage, or until someone finds a way inside" -Valentine”
― Riley Redgate, Seven Ways We Lie

“Though I guess if you love someone, the thought of losing their approval is probably twice as terrifying" -Olivia”
― Riley Redgate, Seven Ways We Lie

“We are always moving forward—I can see it now. We are hurtling through our lives. We are never standing still.”
― Riley Redgate, Seven Ways We Lie

“Hearts fit together like hands. Not by necessity. By choice.”
― Riley Redgate, Seven Ways We Lie

“I’ve always thought everybody’s a genius at something; you just have to dig it up and polish the hell out of it.”
― Riley Redgate, Seven Ways We Lie

“Although there really isn’t an appropriate time for dick pics you didn’t ask for.”
― Riley Redgate, Seven Ways We Lie

“I've always thought everybody's a genius at something; you just have to dig it up and polish the hell out of it" -Olivia”
― Riley Redgate, Seven Ways We Lie

“Maybe he knew the whole time that trying to hold on to her was like trying to hold on to ice—a wasted effort that was only going to leave him cold.”
― Riley Redgate, Seven Ways We Lie

“Or maybe love is never healthy, and we should guard our hearts in hospitals for preemptive healing.”
― Riley Redgate, Seven Ways We Lie

“I love every detail, because it means I’m close enough to know these tiny secrets. I”
― Riley Redgate, Seven Ways We Lie

“Panic is pouring around me, liquid in a glass box, drowning me inch by inch. What”
― Riley Redgate, Seven Ways We Lie

“your silence is more silent than usual silence”
― Riley Redgate, Seven Ways We Lie

“It's sad, the thought that everyone I know is so repressed, they have to get, like, oh my
God, totally wasted to have an excuse to act the way they want to act.”
― riley redgate, Seven Ways We Lie