The Key to Everything Quotes

“The truth never hurts worse than finding out someone you care about lied to you.”
― Paula Stokes, The Key to Everything

“People are always clinging to what they want to hear, discarding the evidence that doesn’t fit with their beliefs, giving greater weight to evidence that does.”
― Paula Stokes, The Key to Everything

“You can’t explain love with experiments and MRIs. I don’t care what your research says. Some things are bigger than science.”
― Paula Stokes, The Key to Everything

“I get it. Traveling halfway across the world to run into the boy you grew up with, getting back together after years apart—that’s an epic fucking fairytale. I don’t blame you for being seduced by it. I guess I just thought what we had was better. You know, because it was real.”
― Paula Stokes, The Key to Everything

“And this time it’s different. This time our bodies slide together like they were made to fit. This time Tyson doesn’t have to tell me to look at him, because I can’t stop. He is all that I see, every inch of dark skin, every curl of hair, every scar or tiny imperfection that all combine to make him seem…perfect. No, not perfect, but perfect for me.

This time it’s not about needing an escape. This time it’s about wanting a connection.”
― Paula Stokes, The Key to Everything

“I go back for seconds and thirds and fourths and fifths, when it’s good. Just not if it means some guy gets to put a leash on me.”
― Paula Stokes, The Key to Everything

“So what if I’m right?” I dig in my purse for a few singles, flopping back to our conversation about Seth as if we’d never changed the subject. This is a thing I’ve found only best friends can do—press pause on a conversation and then press play again at any moment.”
― Paula Stokes, The Key to Everything