Little Lies Quotes

“I was born into a very wealthy family,” he began. “And as anyone can tell you, being born into the lap of luxury makes it a whole lot easier to continue to be wealthy. You have better opportunities, better schooling, better contacts, and, most importantly, more money with which to make your start at life. The wealthy have always gotten wealthier. It’s just the way economics works. Still…” He gave a rueful yet charming shrug, then swept his gray hair back behind one ear. “I didn’t ask for that life, and it didn’t take me long to look around and see that it gave me a whole lot more than just an easier start. Sure, my dad’s money helped me go to school and start my own construction company. It gave me a foundation from which to grow. But did that mean I should be allowed to have so many more rights than people who hadn’t been born as lucky? Did it mean I should be automatically awarded the ear of government officials, the bigger house, the safer neighborhood?” A pause. “Did it mean I should be allowed to keep my children when so many people my age weren’t allowed the same?” His voice had gone hard toward the end of his speech, and I could see the anger in him. The crowd around me was rallying to it. Oh yes, he knew exactly what he was doing. And, boy oh boy, was he good at it. The problem was, I couldn’t dislike him for it. Because so far, I agreed with everything he’d said. “I saw the inequalities.”
― Bella Forrest, Little Lies

“Soon most of the room had joined us, a leaping, yelling, laughing crush of bodies. It was the best gift Nathan could have given us. And if we’d only had that one dance, I would have been eternally grateful to him for the release I saw shining on my friends’ faces. But it wasn’t just the one dance. It was song after song, and then a break for punch and cake, and then more dancing, until we felt as if we were going to be sick from eating too much and leaping about immediately afterward. For a while, I allowed my brain to turn off. I gave myself permission to stop thinking about all the things that had happened, all the things that had gone horribly wrong, and just live. It was glorious.”
― Bella Forrest, Little Lies

“I froze with embarrassment, but then listened to the music as it thundered out of the speakers around us. The beat was driving, calling to something in my blood, something wild and uninhibited, and I started moving up and down to it. I felt stiff, awkward, out of place, certain everyone was watching and judging me for this ridiculous display. But the music drove me onward, and before I knew it, I was jumping higher, timing my jumps to the beat, then going bigger… and bigger. My movements grew less controlled, more fluid and instinctual, and pretty soon I was laughing just as hard as Alexy. It was unabashedly ridiculous, yet I didn’t think I’d ever felt anything so wonderful in my entire life.”
― Bella Forrest, Little Lies