This Lie Will Kill You Quotes

“I thought I needed protection, back then. Now I think you're like the gun my mother bought after my father disappeared. A powerful symbol, but meaningless. What's the point of a gun if you don't shoot it?”
― Chelsea Pitcher, This Lie Will Kill You

“Let go of the doll. The goddess too. Then she was herself. A girl with pale blue eyes and freckles on the nose. A long jagged scar across her heart and a chasm that kept her from happiness.”
― Chelsea Pitcher, This Lie Will Kill You

“A drop of his blood was glistening on one of the shards, and she thought about using it to brighten up her lips.”
― Chelsea Pitcher, This Lie Will Kill You

“But maybe, in times of immense distress, people's truest selves came out”
― Chelsea Pitcher, This Lie Will Kill You

“When her phone lit up again, she was surprised to feel her heart leap. How could she still have hope after everything that had happened? Her heart was a bruised and bludgeoned thing. A Pandora’s box filled with grief and regret. But somewhere, hidden in the darkness, hope was glittering.”
― Chelsea Pitcher, This Lie Will Kill You

“Oh my God. Shut your beautiful face.”
― Chelsea Pitcher, This Lie Will Kill You

“She was staring at him like he was the sun and she'd been living in darkness.”
― Chelsea Pitcher, This Lie Will Kill You

“Someday Ruby's soul would dance into the darkness, and they would reunite. There would be eyes like eternal twilight and moon-pale skin. A mischievous smile. And maybe, if everything went exactly as planned, her broken heart would heal and her pain would soften to sweetness.
But first, there would be life.”
― Chelsea Pitcher, This Lie Will Kill You

“You climb to the roof with a pitchfork in your hands. You summon the lightning. You chase the storm.” “See, that’s where you’re wrong, Juniper. I don’t chase the storm. I am the storm. I am a goddess in a land of pyramids and sand, and if I want, I can make all this blow away with the wind.”
― Chelsea Pitcher, This Lie Will Kill You

“The thing about fear is it doesn’t go away once the most terrible thing has happened. it compounds, so you expect more terrible things to happen. you wait for them”
― Chelsea Pitcher, This Lie Will Kill You

“A grain of sand in a land of pyramids and gods. All you have to do is wait for the wind, and he'll blow away.”
― Chelsea Pitcher, This Lie Will Kill You

“She'd be free.
She'd be happy.”
― Chelsea Pitcher, This Lie Will Kill You

“Pretty girls fell head over heels for monsters.”
― Chelsea Pitcher, This Lie Will Kill You

“How could she still have hope after everything that had happened? Her heart was a bruised and bludgeoned thing. A Pandora's box filled with grief and regret. But somewhere, hidden in the darkness, hope was glittering.”
― Chelsea Pitcher, This Lie Will Kill You

“She needed to be strong. No she needed to be cold, like an unfeeling doll. Porcelain limbs couldn't tremble, and a heart made of plastic couldn't ache this terribly. It couldn't break. It couldn't bleed.”
― Chelsea Pitcher, This Lie Will Kill You

“Three little liars, beautiful and terrifying in their capacity for love, their capacity for vengeance”
― Chelsea Pitcher, This Lie Will Kill You

“1. My name is THE INVISIBLE MAN. 2. I am secretly in love with THE UNDERWATER ACROBAT. 3. My weapon is a CAMERA because I WILL EXPOSE EACH ONE OF YOU. 4. My greatest secret is I WOULD KILL TO BE POPULAR.”
― Chelsea Pitcher, This Lie Will Kill You

“Her pale, curvaceous thighs. The breasts that kept bouncing, even when she stopped.”
― Chelsea Pitcher, This Lie Will Kill You

“Not on their own. But when cars made friends with mortals, they could do all these things and more. They could transform a beautiful forest into a wasteland. They could transform a beautiful face, with moon-pale skin and startling blue eyes, into a candle of wax, dripping and contorting until none of the loveliness remained.”
― Chelsea Pitcher, This Lie Will Kill You

“people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters,”
― Chelsea Pitcher, This Lie Will Kill You