Beautiful Liars Quotes

“How the mind plays tricks, Martha thinks now, the way it effortlessly reveals useless snippets like this while so often concealing the memories we seek.”
― Isabel Ashdown, Beautiful Liars

“Surely no one remembers everything that happened to them every day of their life. And how can we ever compare our powers of recall with those of someone else, when we can never live in each other’s heads, never really experience the same event, even when it’s a shared one.”
― Isabel Ashdown, Beautiful Liars

“What alters in those teen years, to make us so reckless and brave? Is it a chemical change, something we have no control over that makes risk-takers of the most sensible of us?”
― Isabel Ashdown, Beautiful Liars

“Somehow I manage to be both invisible and horribly stand-out all at once. I sometimes think this lack in me is the source of everything that is wrong in my life, every lurch of anxiety, every seizure of fear. How do you acquire that good, ‘easy’ thing? Is it something you can be taught? Is it something I could learn now, given a fresh chance to mix in the world?”
― Isabel Ashdown, Beautiful Liars

“I know it is a death drop; I know it is a long way down. I can’t say I remember pushing him – but neither can I remember not pushing him.”
― Isabel Ashdown, Beautiful Liars

“afterwards. How interesting it is, the way the mind works, the way it recalibrates difficult experiences, bestowing upon them a storybook quality so that we might shut the pages when it suits us and place them safely on the highest shelf.”
― Isabel Ashdown, Beautiful Liars