Seven Lies Quotes

“I have always loved autumn. I like that sense of something ending but not quite over. I like open fires and curtains drawn and thick woolen jumpers and boots that encase your feet and cushion your toes. I like winds that nip and clouds that soften the sky and that feeling of stepping out of the cold and into the warmth. The summer is too much, too full of expectation, with so much pressure to be joyful and buoyant and bright. And the winter is too dark, even for me.”
― Elizabeth Kay, Seven Lies

“There is something so enchanting about a first best friend at twelve. It is intoxicating to be so needed, to crave someone so acutely, and to have the feeling of being so completely entwined.”
― Elizabeth Kay, Seven Lies

“that isn’t how the world works. There are no blank slates, no fresh starts, no clean cuts. There is only the messy aftermath of every decision you ever make. Because – and this is one of my greatest frustrations – life moves in only one direction. Every decision that you ever make will be written in stone, permanent, never to be undone. They are all entirely irrevocable. Even if you find a way to unwind a specific decision, to unpick those threads, that decision will always have been made.”
― Elizabeth Kay, Seven Lies

“A life doesn’t end when a person dies.”
― Elizabeth Kay, Seven Lies

“Friendships are one thing, but a true love, a romantic love? That trumps everything. Always has. Always will.”
― Elizabeth Kay, Seven Lies

“I know that sometimes life shifts unexpectedly, that the choices get taken away.”
― Elizabeth Kay, Seven Lies

“This is my truth, after all. And that is not the same as the truth.”
― Elizabeth Kay, Seven Lies

“I wish our stories shared no chapters, that the ink of his life wasn’t there on the pages of mine, that our lives had existed concurrently, yes, but had never overlapped.”
― Elizabeth Kay, Seven Lies

“didn’t quite say it, not in those words, but I think she was trying to protect me from her mistake, from a marriage that narrowed every part of who she once was into a few wilting words: into ‘wife’, into ‘mother’, into ‘heartbreak”
― Elizabeth Kay, Seven Lies

“My ability to take the good and the bad of this world and to balance them has disappeared completely. I am uncalibrated.”
― Elizabeth Kay, Seven Lies

“I hope that, in that moment, she realized that our roots were so tightly locked together— the thicker, barkier skin so eroded at the tightest junctures, flesh on flesh— that we were entirely inseparable. I hope that she knew that we were both all in, at all costs, for always and forever.”
― Elizabeth Kay, Seven Lies