Here Lies Daniel Tate Quotes

“I'd spent a lifetime becoming a mirror that just reflected back the person others wanted to see, but she didn't want anything. So I was nothing.”
― Cristin Terrill, Here Lies Daniel Tate

“It was one thing not to be loved, but it was another thing entirely to believe that people loved you and then learn all at once that they didn’t.”
― Cristin Terrill, Here Lies Daniel Tate

“This is when the old me would have run.
The new me was starting to have too much to lose.”
― Cristin Terrill, Here Lies Daniel Tate

“If there's one thing I've learned, it's that people are bad at keeping secrets, and eventually everything shows.”
― Cristin Terrill, Here Lies Daniel Tate

“All good lies contained some truth.”
― Cristin Terrill, Here Lies Daniel Tate

“He's seen all the worst parts of me, and it hasn't scared him off yet." Those words hit something deep inside of me, and I knew they were going to linger. "That...must be nice." "Sure makes the world seem less scary." he said.”
― Cristin Terrill, Here Lies Daniel Tate

“People are always their most beautiful when you know you’re never going to see them again.”
― Cristin Terrill, Here Lies Daniel Tate

“I was used to being invisible, and I’d never realized before how much freedom there was in that.”
― Cristin Terrill, Here Lies Daniel Tate

“They were the best family I'd ever had, and it was all total, total bullshit.”
― Cristin Terrill, Here Lies Daniel Tate

“I had the sudden strange feeling that she was seeing me and not the cloud of Danny Tate around me.”
― Cristin Terrill, Here Lies Daniel Tate

“All of my life I'd tried to be invisible, and that gave the power to everyone else.”
― Cristin Terrill, Here Lies Daniel Tate

“It was always so fucking cold in this house with this goddamn air conditioning. I'd grown up in the snow, and my blood and bones were cold enough without it. I couldn't remember ever having been warm.”
― Cristin Terrill, Here Lies Daniel Tate

“My God, is that person walking?? I have never seen such a thing.”
― Cristin Terrill, Here Lies Daniel Tate

“For a second I'd forgotten. And when I remembered, it stung all over again.”
― Cristin Terrill, Here Lies Daniel Tate