What Lies Between Us Quotes

“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.’ —Charles Spurgeon”
― John Marrs, What Lies Between Us

“I prefer detective or psychological thrillers, anything that promises and then delivers a twist. I like to get the old grey matter working and decipher who the bad guy is. I’m hard to please though. If I guess the culprit correctly, I’ll be disappointed at how predictable the story is. If I get it wrong, I’ll be annoyed at myself for not spotting it earlier.”
― John Marrs, What Lies Between Us

“because misery doesn’t always love company. It’s not fair of me to expect anyone else to share the space under my dark cloud.”
― John Marrs, What Lies Between Us

“I keep most people at arm’s length for a reason. If you allow an emotional attachment to develop, eventually that person will disappoint you. They might not mean to, but if a better opportunity comes along, they will always leave you for it. I’ve learned the hard way that people – even loved ones – are transient souls.”
― John Marrs, What Lies Between Us

“My memories of him didn’t disappear just because he did.”
― John Marrs, What Lies Between Us

“Sometimes appearances can be deceptive.
You can never really know a person, no matter how much you love them.”
― John Marrs, What Lies Between Us

“I thought that having a baby meant that I would always be loved by someone until the day I died. I was wrong. Being a mother is no guarantee of anything.”
― John Marrs, What Lies Between Us

“I don’t believe anyone who claims to have no regrets. They’re lying to themselves. We all have them.”
― John Marrs, What Lies Between Us

“everything that is wrong with me is wrong with you too. We are one and the same. When I die, your flame will also extinguish.”
― John Marrs, What Lies Between Us

“When you get older you’ll understand that sometimes appearances can be deceptive,’ she replies. ‘You can never really know a person, no matter how much you love them.”
― John Marrs, What Lies Between Us

“There is just one lesson I have learned from the life we share. And it is this: everything that is wrong with me is wrong with you too. We are one and the same. When I die, your flame will also extinguish.”
― John Marrs, What Lies Between Us

“She carries death around with the casualness of a handbag.”
― John Marrs, What Lies Between Us

“I have stopped loving you. I have stopped caring about you. I have stopped worrying about you. I have simply . . . stopped.”
― John Marrs, What Lies Between Us

“I hate it when people pity the life they assume I lead. And it’s not like it isn’t pitiful . . . just not for the reasons they assume.”
― John Marrs, What Lies Between Us

“Over dinner, she’ll keep me up to speed with who she’s seen and what they’re up to, but does she ever long to be among them? Watching isn’t living, is it?”
― John Marrs, What Lies Between Us

“Such frittered-away chances make me want to crawl on my hands and knees to the end of the garden, curl up into a ball on a mound of earth and wait until the nettles and the ivy choke and cover me from view.”
― John Marrs, What Lies Between Us

“For much of our time together I wished for a better relationship than the one we have, but I’ve come to understand this is the hand I have been dealt. And now I am showing you all my cards. Our game is complete.”
― John Marrs, What Lies Between Us

“Sometimes it’s good to open up what you’ve got locked up in there.” He taps his head.”
― John Marrs, What Lies Between Us

“If you allow an emotional attachment to develop, eventually that person will disappoint you. They might not mean to, but if a better opportunity comes along, they will always leave you for it.”
― John Marrs, What Lies Between Us

“I have stopped loving you. I have stopped caring about you. I have stopped worrying about you. I have simply . . . stopped. This might come as news to you but despite everything, despite the cruelty, the selfishness and the pain you have caused, I still found a way to care. But not any more. Now, I am putting you on notice. I no longer need you. I don’t think fondly of our early days, so I am erasing these memories and all that followed. For much of our time together I wished for a better relationship than the one we have, but I’ve come to understand this is the hand I have been dealt. And now I am showing you all my cards. Our game is complete. You are the person I share this house with, nothing more, nothing less. You mean no more to me than the shutters that hide what goes on in here, the floorboards I walk over or the doors we use to separate us. I have spent too much of my life trying to figure out your intricacies, of suffering your deeds like knives cutting through scar tissue. I am through with sacrificing who I should have been to keep you happy as it has only locked us in this status quo. I have wasted too much time wanting you to want me. I ache when I recall the opportunities I’ve been too scared to accept because of you. Such frittered-away chances make me want to crawl on my hands and knees to the end of the garden, curl up into a ball on a mound of earth and wait until the nettles and the ivy choke and cover me from view. It’s only now that I recognise the wretched life you cloaked me in and how your misery needed my company to prevent you from feeling so isolated. There is just one lesson I have learned from the life we share. And it is this: everything that is wrong with me is wrong with you too. We are one and the same. When I die, your flame will also extinguish. The next time we are together, I want one of us to be lying stiff in a coffin wearing rags that no longer fit our dead, shrunken frame. Only then can we separate. Only then can we be ourselves. Only then do I stand a chance of finding peace. Only then will I be free of you. And should my soul soar, I promise that yours will sink like the heaviest of rocks, never to be seen again.”
― John Marrs, What Lies Between Us

“supervision,”
― John Marrs, What Lies Between Us

“Sometimes when Jon and I met in town after school, he’d sulk if I’d changed out of my uniform in the bus station toilets first. He preferred me to keep it on. I don’t think we would’ve got away with our relationship in this day and age. They’d accuse him of grooming me and would throw around words like paedophile or child molester. But he wasn’t any such thing. Unless you were in our relationship, you couldn’t possibly understand what we meant to one another.”
― John Marrs, What Lies Between Us

“I scroll further down without reading any more until I reach a photograph of that girl.”
― John Marrs, What Lies Between Us

“We live in a time where everything and everyone is disposable.”
― John Marrs, What Lies Between Us

“and we’d spend a couple of hours putting the world to rights or gossiping about the neighbours. I miss those chats.”
― John Marrs, What Lies Between Us

“I am through with sacrificing who I should have been to keep you happy as it has only locked us in this status quo.”
― John Marrs, What Lies Between Us

“Not only did Mum kill my first baby, but she gave my second away, then made me infertile. I have no control over the tears streaming down my face.”
― John Marrs, What Lies Between Us

“Don’t kid yourself. You did it because you want to keep me this way . . . this teenage woman with nothing and no one to her name. This pathetic shell who has no life because she’s an extension of you. You did it because you are as lonely as I am. You are too bitter and too cruel to let me better myself. I will never forgive you for this.”
― John Marrs, What Lies Between Us

“If you allow an emotional attachment to develop, eventually that person will disappoint you.”
― John Marrs, What Lies Between Us

“I prefer detective or psychological thrillers, anything that promises and then delivers a twist.”
― John Marrs, What Lies Between Us