Such a Quiet Place Quotes

“It was so easy to pretend that everything was normal. We’ve always been great pretenders here.”
― Megan Miranda, Such a Quiet Place

“I thought about that now--about how much of ourselves we leave behind in every interaction. How every place we've been, everything we say, can be used to craft a story.

[Harper Nash]”
― Megan Miranda, Such a Quiet Place

“Sometimes I didn't understand how someone who seemed so bold in personality could be so passive in action.”
― Megan Miranda, Such a Quiet Place

“Turned out, we were all so close to criminal. All you needed was a good enough motive.”
― Megan Miranda, Such a Quiet Place

“...the thing I'd learned about fear was that it heightened everything....It solidified whom you trusted and whom you didn't. It clarified things--about others, about ourselves.

[Harper Nash]”
― Megan Miranda, Such a Quiet Place

“People could get used to any change. All we needed was time.”
― Megan Miranda, Such a Quiet Place

“We were good people with bad intentions. Or bad people with good intentions. We imagined ourselves judge and jury, protectors of our community. Turned ourselves into monsters, to murderers. We became the very thing we feared.”
― Megan Miranda, Such a Quiet Place

“Did any of us ever see each other here for what we truly were?”
― Megan Miranda, Such a Quiet Place

“All of us were alive, at night, in the dark. All the things we needed to keep hidden during the day, set loose at night, when we revealed ourselves.”
― Megan Miranda, Such a Quiet Place

“Was there any part of my life she hadn't tainted?”
― Megan Miranda, Such a Quiet Place

“You know what no one does around here? Talk to each other face-to-face. Ask questions or demand answers. It's contagious, the way people act to save face.”
― Megan Miranda, Such a Quiet Place

“Our end, as easy as our beginning.”
― Megan Miranda, Such a Quiet Place

“All tradition was steeped in legend. All risk was heightened by stories.”
― Megan Miranda, Such a Quiet Place

“We were trapped with one another and what we had each said and done.”
― Megan Miranda, Such a Quiet Place

“Maybe I was being paranoid. Seeing danger everywhere, in everyone. Doubting every motivation, every interaction.”
― Megan Miranda, Such a Quiet Place

“We had been raised on true crime and the promise of viral fame. We'd consumed unsolved mysteries and developed our deeply held theories. Believed that neither law experience nor a criminal justice background was necessary to see into people's true hearts, to root out the truth. That all you needed was a clear perspective and a sharp mind.”
― Megan Miranda, Such a Quiet Place

“There were things people here knew. Things people had seen. I wondered, not for the first time, what else they might've seen - and what they'd decided to keep hidden.”
― Megan Miranda, Such a Quiet Place

“I'd spent my entire life staying within the confines I'd established for myself or the boundaries others had set for me.
What could happen, I'd suddenly thought, if I breached those confines? If I did not pull back but leaned forward instead, giving in to the impulse and recklessness of the moment?
The answer, it turned out, was both relieving and terrifying: nothing. There was no repercussion, no slide I'd set in motion, and there was something alluring about the realization.”
― Megan Miranda, Such a Quiet Place

“Every decision was a balance, and I couldn't see the right option, the right answer.”
― Megan Miranda, Such a Quiet Place

“That was also when he left me, in a sudden, jarring blindside - so fast and unexpected that the anger first masked the heartbreak, and even now I wasn't sure whether I was more upset about the loss of the relationship or the way it had happened.
He was leaving for a better opportunity, he said, and maybe it's time we stopped pretending this was working. This could be an opportunity for both of us. And when I argued, tried to understand where this was coming from, he threw his arms out to the sides and said, My God, Harper, I just have to get out of here.
Like some switch had been flipped and he was seeing this place with fresh eyes - the four walls limiting him, the neighborhood roads circling back around, and me, always the thing he was coming back to.
As if i were something that required escaping.”
― Megan Miranda, Such a Quiet Place

“I was always trying to decrease animosity, smooth over tension - a role I'd long inhabited in my own family.”
― Megan Miranda, Such a Quiet Place

“I'd spent the last year reassessing everything I'd thought I knew - about others, about myself. Picking apart the trajectory that had brought me here, the conviction I'd always felt in my decisions, and I worried that the uncertainty had somehow manifested itself in my demeanor.”
― Megan Miranda, Such a Quiet Place

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― Megan Miranda, Such a Quiet Place

“I’d spent my entire life staying within the confines I’d established for myself or the boundaries others had set for me. What would happen, I’d suddenly thought, if I breached those confines? If I did not pull back but leaned forward instead, giving in to the impulse and recklessness of the moment? The answer, it turned out, was both relieving and terrifying: nothing. There was no repercussion, no slide I’d set in motion, and there was something alluring about that realization.”
― Megan Miranda, Such a Quiet Place

“The paranoia gaining force as people searched for signs, for clues, for how we had missed the danger among us for so long.”
― Megan Miranda, Such a Quiet Place