Beautiful Lies Quotes

“We’ve always fought for each other. When one of us lays down our sword, the other picks it up and goes to battle.”
― Emery Rose, Beautiful Lies

“When I lost you, I not only lost a boyfriend, I lost my best friend.”
He closed his eyes. “Ava…”
“I’ve missed you,” I said, being more honest than I’d been in a long time. “So much.”
― Emery Rose, Beautiful Lies

“I didn’t want to be broken anymore. I didn’t want her to be left to pick up the pieces. She deserved better than that.”
― Emery Rose, Beautiful Lies

“I’d been through enough shit in my life to know that when you were being offered a second shot at something, you took it. And you did everything in your power to make sure you didn’t fuck it up.”
― Emery Rose, Beautiful Lies

“I never really got over you though. I tried…so hard. But something always held me back.”
“What was that something?” I asked.
“My beautiful memories. I want to make more with you. Someday. Maybe.”
Someday. Maybe.”
― Emery Rose, Beautiful Lies

“I wanted so much to let it all go, to trust him and believe in him again. My life didn’t feel complete without him in it.”
― Emery Rose, Beautiful Lies

“I’ll wait for you,” I said, finally.
“I don’t know how long it will take…or even if--”
“I’ll wait.”
― Emery Rose, Beautiful Lies

“My heart has been broken by you so many times…so many times, Connor.”
I pulled her into my arms and held her. She leaned into me, her cheek pressed against my chest. “Baby, please…I’ll do whatever it takes to make this work. Anything.”
“Anything?” she asked, her voice muffled.
“Anything that doesn’t require letting you go. Because I don’t know how to do that. I’ve never found a way.”
― Emery Rose, Beautiful Lies

“I want to be your forever girl.”
“You’re my everything girl.”
― Emery Rose, Beautiful Lies

“Addicts are selfish. They take, and they take, and they take, and they giver very little of themselves in return. She’d been left with the dregs of me and she’d deserved so much more.”
― Emery Rose, Beautiful Lies

“My mouth moved down to her neck just below her ear, and I pressed my lips against her racing pulse. She smelled like vanilla and something that was just her. Sweet and warm with a touch of spice. She smelled like heaven. She smelled like the only home I’d ever known.”
― Emery Rose, Beautiful Lies

“How many times could I let him break my heart? At nineteen, he destroyed me. At twenty-four, I was still picking up the pieces.”
― Emery Rose, Beautiful Lies

“Am I irreplaceable in your life, Connor? If that was true, why had you thrown it all away? Why had drugs given you something I couldn’t? Why had you given drugs so much power over your life? They’d ruined you, us, and everything that was good and real.”
― Emery Rose, Beautiful Lies

“I need to win her back. I would show her that my life was on track and that I’d changed. I wasn’t hell-bent on self-destruction, and I wasn’t running from anything. I was standing my ground and weathering the storm.
This time, I wouldn’t be careless with Ava. Everything could be different. I would find a way to make her fall in love with me all over again.”
― Emery Rose, Beautiful Lies

“Maybe you couldn’t choose the person you fell in love with. Over the years, I’d tried so many times to steel my heart against Connor, but he always came in like a wrecking ball. He knocked down all the walls, destroyed the foundation, and left me with the rubble. Our brand of love would never made an after-school special. It was ugly and gritty and soul-destroying. Connor and I…there had been so many obstacles in our way.
But for a while, our love had been beautiful, and it had been everything.
How could you hate someone and love them at the same time?”
― Emery Rose, Beautiful Lies

“I don’t pretend to know Connor…those Vincent brothers don’t make it easy.
Zeke was right. Nothing had ever been easy with them, but their lives had never been easy either.
“But you know what I think?”, I shook my head, curious to hear his thoughts. “When they fall in love, they fall hard, and it’s for life.”
― Emery Rose, Beautiful Lies

“Ava Christensen had been the best thing in my life but I ruined us.”
― Emery Rose, Beautiful Lies

“She’d always been my girl. It didn’t matter who she was with or how long we were separated by time or distance, Ava would always be mine. I knew in my heart that nobody could ever love her the way I do. It simply wasn’t possible.”
― Emery Rose, Beautiful Lies

“Do you believe in soul mates, Connor?”
“How could I not? I met mine when I was fourteen.”
― Emery Rose, Beautiful Lies