White Lies Quotes

“Sometimes I think it can be harder to watch someone you love suffer than go through it yourself”
― Lucy Dawson, White Lies

“The dark triad comprises three personality traits: narcissism, Machiavellianism and psychopathy. They all have a malevolent connection: if you have traits of one, you’re likely to share traits with the others. Narcissists have no empathy whatsoever in addition to thinking they are more special than everyone else. Machiavellianism is all about manipulation and the exploitation of others, displaying a total lack of morality as the individual focuses on their own self-interest, and psychopaths are completely remorseless as they pursue their antisocial behaviour.”
― Lucy Dawson, White Lies

“kept my promise – because when I slept with Hannah it was just sex and it meant less than nothing – I honestly believe it’s true. I had, and still have, no feelings for Hannah whatsoever. I don’t even particularly like her as a person. I made a mistake – but it’s scarily easy to do.”
― Lucy Dawson, White Lies

“would I be to have made everything up?”
― Lucy Dawson, White Lies

“You won’t know this yet, Jonathan, but you can be with someone all day every day and be the loneliest you’ve ever been,’ she said suddenly. ‘They don’t touch you, they don’t kiss you – you try so hard and it all just dies anyway.”
― Lucy Dawson, White Lies

“the Devil hath the power to assume a pleasing shape’,”
― Lucy Dawson, White Lies

“Like all good liars he adapted his story to suit his immediate circumstance. Did that make me angry? Of course it did.”
― Lucy Dawson, White Lies

“Jonathan Day has no autonomy in his relationship with his parents, so he seeks out situations where he gets one up on someone in a parental position instead – I was just a vehicle for his need to lose and then regain control. Sometimes he uses sex to get his own way, sometimes power. He’s happy to play the poor little boy or the powerful man, as long as he has the upper hand. If I hadn’t become his victim, I would have found it fascinating that he could suppress or invoke feelings for the purpose of control, rather than the authenticity of the feelings themselves.”
― Lucy Dawson, White Lies

“I’ve no doubt he meant every word, but sometimes love isn’t enough, no matter how hard you want to believe it will be.”
― Lucy Dawson, White Lies

“I so badly wanted to be the best version of myself that she believed I was. I thought about how safe my mother had always made me feel, even though there must have been times when she was falling apart inside”
― Lucy Dawson, White Lies

“Age is just a number.”
― Lucy Dawson, White Lies

“That’s not true,’ I said. ‘Before all of this, I enjoyed sex with you, you know that. Although, yes, there are things I’ve tried to discuss with you too. I know I’m tired and stressed most of the time, but Rob, you never made an effort to just hold my hand, or kiss me, all you did was tell me things between us were shit and I’d better hurry up and do something about it – which didn’t make me feel much like going to bed with you, to be honest. You can’t just turn it on when there’s no emotional closeness. At least, I can’t.”
― Lucy Dawson, White Lies

“We don’t lose interest in sex the way women do. At least, I thought that’s how it was. Given what you’ve just told me, maybe it’s not that you don’t like sex, you just don’t like it with me.”
― Lucy Dawson, White Lies

“And perhaps it is different for men than women. We don’t lose interest in sex the way women do. At least, I thought that’s how it was. Given what you’ve just told me, maybe it’s not that you don’t like sex, you just don’t like it with me.”
― Lucy Dawson, White Lies