Lying Next to Me Quotes

“Trust and stupidity are close friends. Of course, no one really knows that until it’s too late.”
― Gregg Olsen, Lying Next to Me

“The ones that test the limits sometimes do the most amazing things in life. That’s what I’ve always thought.”
― Gregg Olsen, Lying Next to Me

“People gravitate toward danger and drama to show concern, yes. But also to silently count their blessings that nothing like this has happened to them. That being close to the unthinkable takes them off some list that God or fate keeps track of.”
― Gregg Olsen, Lying Next to Me

“Our marriage is quietly rocky. Silently in shambles. I love her without a scintilla of doubt.”
― Gregg Olsen, Lying Next to Me

“How did we get here?' Sophie asks.
'We drove our cars,' I say, teasing.
She makes a face and signals for more wine. 'Funny,' she says. 'I mean to this place in our lives when everything seems so perfect but isn't?”
― Gregg Olsen, Lying Next to Me

“We were a sinking ship headed for the bottom of the ocean.”
― Gregg Olsen, Lying Next to Me

“There’s a singular kind of desperation that links all of us who cannot conceive but think of nothing else. I wonder about us. What has made that message play over and over inside our heads? Is it biology? I want it to be that. I want the reason I sit on the toilet, hoping against hope, to be biological and not some kind of mental disorder.”
― Gregg Olsen, Lying Next to Me

“But learned personality traits aren't often based on present reality but on a past from which there is no escape.”
― Gregg Olsen, Lying Next to Me

“A warm smile, and some serious electricity passed between us. I felt it. I didn't know if she did or didn't. Hasn't everyone experienced that moment when there's a charge in the air between you and another person?”
― Gregg Olsen, Lying Next to Me

“No part of this book may be reproduced, or stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without express written permission of the publisher.”
― Gregg Olsen, Lying Next to Me

“It is always easier to sleep at night if the monsters outside your house only knock when you give them cause.”
― Gregg Olsen, Lying Next to Me

“Thinking and dreaming of what happened is a far different experience than giving voice to events that haunt you. You cry when you tell someone something. You shake. You get sick. You seek comfort. When you don’t speak about it and just think it, you don’t fall apart.”
― Gregg Olsen, Lying Next to Me

“She seems to inhabit the fringes of her own world. As if Frank rules their world and allows her to coexist with him as long as she keeps the house clean and does his laundry. I”
― Gregg Olsen, Lying Next to Me

“well, I don’t think I’m equipped to raise our daughter.”
― Gregg Olsen, Lying Next to Me

“You”
― Gregg Olsen, Lying Next to Me

“That morning stays in my head like a graphic novel, images telling the story in bold swaths of black and white with smudges of jolting color roaring out of the lines.”
― Gregg Olsen, Lying Next to Me

“It’s hard to unbraid a life with a man that you believe in.”
― Gregg Olsen, Lying Next to Me

“Sometimes hurt so deep gets buried by hope.”
― Gregg Olsen, Lying Next to Me

“When you have something that you carry inside and never talk about, you don’t ever unleash it on a stranger. And since you’ve never talked about it, you don’t know even how to really frame your thoughts. You fear that your words will tumble out in a way that will only make things worse.”
― Gregg Olsen, Lying Next to Me

“I was the asteroid that hovered just outside his orbit.”
― Gregg Olsen, Lying Next to Me

“I wonder now how much of her depression was chemical and how much was caused by me.”
― Gregg Olsen, Lying Next to Me

“around the glassy waters of the protected beachfront. “What happened here,” she adds, her voice soft, “is almost too much to take.” “I understand,” I say.”
― Gregg Olsen, Lying Next to Me

“I don’t want a roommate,” she said.”
― Gregg Olsen, Lying Next to Me

“It’s easy to forget that inside her cool and placid exterior is a human being. Not nice to think, I”
― Gregg Olsen, Lying Next to Me

“I saw her as she showed herself to the world: fun, smart, sexy. Funny how those things are often a smoke screen from one’s true self. It’s easy to act all those things. Up for adventure. Head nods at complex scenarios when she’s not really listening. Ready for bedroom play even when there is no bedroom. In the beginning, Sophie was all those things. I didn’t know they were a construct. I thought they were key parts of who she was.”
― Gregg Olsen, Lying Next to Me

“What a pair! I almost feel sorry for the people of Hawaii. Those two are going to be the most annoying thing that happened there since that moron sounded the false missile-attack alarm.”
― Gregg Olsen, Lying Next to Me

“It’s hard to be genuinely enthusiastic if you can never have what’s in front of you—when it comes so easily to others.”
― Gregg Olsen, Lying Next to Me

“She seems to inhabit the fringes of her own world. As if Frank rules their world and allows her to coexist with him as long as she keeps the house clean and does his laundry.”
― Gregg Olsen, Lying Next to Me

“I saw someone arguing with my wife, then he hit her. He grabbed her. Carried her. My glasses fell. I couldn’t see everything clearly. She was right here.” I point to the glass, now in shards, from which Sophie had been drinking while she sat on the bulkhead. “Have you been drinking too?” she asks. “No,” I insist. Why would she say something like that? I’m shaking. I’m out of breath. I’m in shock. I’m not drunk. I know what I saw. Or what I partially saw. No doubt. Someone took my wife. Her eyes show a mix of concern and alarm. “Sheriff is on the way,” she finally says.”
― Gregg Olsen, Lying Next to Me

“And since you’ve never talked about it, you don’t know even how to really frame your thoughts. You fear that your words will tumble out in a way that will only make things worse.”
― Gregg Olsen, Lying Next to Me