Lie With Me Quotes

“Plenty of friendships, I am sure, are based on lies.”
― Sabine Durrant, Lie With Me

“I’ve realised it isn’t just fate – though that plays a part, like a backdrop. It’s the small things inside you, the slants and notches, the defects, that trap you.”
― Sabine Durrant, Lie With Me

“both reverential and self-satisfied, as if by reporting”
― Sabine Durrant, Lie With Me

“It’s never too hot.’ I ran my hands under her kaftan, felt the warmth of her stomach, the damp of her bikini. I buried my face in her neck, toying at the drawstring with my teeth. ‘You’re too hot.”
― Sabine Durrant, Lie With Me

“Adrenal,’ Boo said. ‘It’s terribly rare. He had stomach pains, which they thought was appendicitis. By that stage it had already spread and he was dead within three months. But she was so strong; she kept it together for the children.’ Her tone was both reverential and self-satisfied, as if by reporting the saintliness of this Alice she was conferring some of it upon herself.”
― Sabine Durrant, Lie With Me

“Tina was painting on a stool in the shade, the skirt of her tent pulled low over her knees.”
― Sabine Durrant, Lie With Me