The Better Liar Quotes

“If you want to hear the real truth, I knew the whole time how come he wasn’t answering my texts. But it’s different when you see it. It always is.”
― Tanen Jones, The Better Liar

“The only people who can keep you alive are the ones who loved you. Not the ones who panted after you, bought you flowers, kissed your palms. I mean the ones who saw your disgusting insides and loved you anyway. The people who really knew you.”
― Tanen Jones, The Better Liar

“each of us experiencing exactly as much happiness as we could successfully contain.”
― Tanen Jones, The Better Liar

“It sounds like horror, but it’s lovely to be invented, to know what you’re for.”
― Tanen Jones, The Better Liar

“When no one discusses your feelings, it never really occurs to you that you might have feelings. I did have feelings, of course, but sitcom ones, learned from TV and Are You There God? and church once a year. For the most part these shallow affectations were sufficient for any situation a twelve-year-old from the suburbs could find herself in, but every once in a while something unidentifiable would pass just beneath my consciousness, like the shadow of some enormous sea creature under the tiny bobbing craft above.”
― Tanen Jones, The Better Liar