Tell Me Lies Quotes

“People always talk about realizing they’re in love during the happy moments, but I think you realize it in the bad ones. The ones that knock you off center, scaring you when they prove that no matter what kind of logic is in your head, it’s what’s in your heart that determines fucking everything.”
― Carola Lovering, Tell Me Lies

“It’s funny—when you get what you want, it almost automatically decreases in value.”
― Carola Lovering, Tell Me Lies

“Love—real love—isn’t something you construct or hope or imagine or plan for the future. Love is something you live and feel in real time, in every single moment, big or small. It’s reciprocal and often unglamorous. But we bank on it because it’s what gives life meaning.”
― Carola Lovering, Tell Me Lies

“Everyone has that guy, Luce. That one guy you think you’ll never be able to shake—the one who gets under your skin and epically fucks you up for a little while. I know I did.”
― Carola Lovering, Tell Me Lies

“Well, time and space give you clarity, and sometimes you don’t realize things until . . . you do.”
― Carola Lovering, Tell Me Lies

“didn’t know if I was addicted to the pain or if love was pain that you had to push through in order to access something greater, a final result you didn’t understand but stored your faith in.”
― Carola Lovering, Tell Me Lies

“You know what they say—charm is the ability to make someone think that both of you are quite wonderful.”
― Carola Lovering, Tell Me Lies

“And all of a sudden I know, because when you figure out the truth you can feel it, hot and deep in your bones,”
― Carola Lovering, Tell Me Lies

“The bartender appeared and asked what I wanted. I didn’t know or care. A bottle of Xanax. A loaded gun. I ordered a vodka tonic.”
― Carola Lovering, Tell Me Lies

“What many people fail to understand is that the world is carved by nature’s laws, not moral values.”
― Carola Lovering, Tell Me Lies

“You have to be careful of girls that are too pretty, though. They hold a power that they never had to earn.”
― Carola Lovering, Tell Me Lies

“What I’ve come to learn and what most people fail to understand is that love is a choice. If you assess the worth of your relationship solely in terms of your feelings it is likely to fail, or at least be extremely short-term. You cannot go on having these “feelings” for someone forever. With girls, the exciting part is winning their affection. That’s the fun. Then you have to choose who you’re going to love, backed by the reasons why.”
― Carola Lovering, Tell Me Lies

“My heart felt empty and full at the same time.”
― Carola Lovering, Tell Me Lies

“The problem with girls is that they always think there is something they can do to “fix it,” and there never is. The end is just the end; it doesn’t mean anything and it isn’t necessarily the result of something. It isn’t a decision so much as a natural alteration. Change is instinctual.”
― Carola Lovering, Tell Me Lies

“It’s funny how so many people end up finding such comfort, even contentment, in their misery.”
― Carola Lovering, Tell Me Lies

“I was still wired from the coke but felt the anxious onset of depression creeping in at the back of my brain, like a leech.”
― Carola Lovering, Tell Me Lies

“I swore that I’d never date anyone again unless I had that feeling—the feeling that everything had been flipped inside me, for the better.”
― Carola Lovering, Tell Me Lies

“Manipulation is not a bad word. It’s not a cynical mind-set. It’s a proactive approach to exploiting opportunities.”
― Carola Lovering, Tell Me Lies

“An image of Stephen DeMarco in his red bathing suit flashed across my mind. Hairy, overweight, crass. Sure, handsome in some obscure way, but I hadn’t felt attracted to him. Had I? I couldn’t remember.”
― Carola Lovering, Tell Me Lies

“It’s always boggled my mind the way the majority of individuals sit around waiting for the next event, then the next—subconsciously waiting for life to end.”
― Carola Lovering, Tell Me Lies

“And all of a sudden I know, because when you figure out the truth you can feel it, hot and deep in your bones, and it feels different and familiar at once, like déjà vu, like opening your suitcase in a foreign place and smelling home.”
― Carola Lovering, Tell Me Lies

“She had one of those bubbly personalities that rose quickly to the surface and allowed for easy, sinuous repartee.”
― Carola Lovering, Tell Me Lies

“Melissa is thirty-one and single and odd and spends all her free time alone with her cat or Instagramming selfies with her cat—I’d feel bad for her if she wasn’t a raging bitch.”
― Carola Lovering, Tell Me Lies

“there was that sudden disturbance in the air again; it was almost everywhere now, as unmistakable as the smell of smoke. I suddenly had the overwhelming feeling that something terrible was going to happen, or had already happened, or was in the process of happening.”
― Carola Lovering, Tell Me Lies

“One second I’d had him, the next he was gone. It only takes a moment for something perfect to erase itself—a flight of stairs that leads to something unimaginable and irreversible;”
― Carola Lovering, Tell Me Lies

“I only remember things when someone reminds me—I’m not a naturally reflective person.”
― Carola Lovering, Tell Me Lies

“oblivious”
― Carola Lovering, Tell Me Lies

“People like Stephen, they don’t change. But isn’t the whole point to believe that people can change? To believe that we can all become better versions of ourselves? Otherwise, what hope is there for anybody?”
― Carola Lovering, Tell Me Lies

“was overcome by the feeling that everything was at once completely different and entirely the same. I was caught somewhere between relief and horror, between anger and affection, the binaries slicing each other, my heart left hanging on a string.”
― Carola Lovering, Tell Me Lies

“The sadness inside me had morphed into something else, something that swapped between numbness and terror. It was the only thing left. I had disappeared from my own being.”
― Carola Lovering, Tell Me Lies