An Honest Lie Quotes

“She tried not to say the wrong things, but it was hard to know what exactly it was that made adults upset—they were like seesaws.”
― Tarryn Fisher, An Honest Lie

“She was a void; you couldn’t frighten something that didn’t exist.”
― Tarryn Fisher, An Honest Lie

“There were three types of people as far as Rainy was concerned: the people who knew who they were, the people who didn’t and the people who didn’t want to.”
― Tarryn Fisher, An Honest Lie

“the last thing she wanted was costume-jewelry friendship. She didn’t have time for that. Codependency sucked up large chunks of time.”
― Tarryn Fisher, An Honest Lie

“Wow. I guess I can put being gaslit by a psychopath on my résumé.”
― Tarryn Fisher, An Honest Lie

“I’m not your fucking Summer.”
― Tarryn Fisher, An Honest Lie

“Your mother saved my life once. She unlocked a door that led to my freedom. Here’s yours.”
― Tarryn Fisher, An Honest Lie

“But I can sleep now…now that he’s dead. I don’t feel bad about that, either, because he was the first monster. And I ended him.”
― Tarryn Fisher, An Honest Lie

“She’d learned that the best way to honor her mother was through her life, not the length of her hair.”
― Tarryn Fisher, An Honest Lie

“I’m a real adult at forty-three. Paying my own bills and all.”
― Tarryn Fisher, An Honest Lie

“Adrenaline was a good drug. Anger was a better one.”
― Tarryn Fisher, An Honest Lie

“You’re gonna be the last woman that man ever fucks with because there will be nothing left of him when you’re done.”
― Tarryn Fisher, An Honest Lie

“That’s what I admires about you. I could always count on your defiance. My sweet Summertime.”
― Tarryn Fisher, An Honest Lie

“The thing about her rage was that it was silent. She didn’t need to cry, or become hysterical,
or accuse him of things he’d done. She’d already done that: held his trial in her own mind. The screaming had been had and done and now she was resolved to end the nightmare for good. Her sigh was a little leak of insanity.”
― Tarryn Fisher, An Honest Lie

“The injustice of the good dying young was especially potent in that moment.”
― Tarryn Fisher, An Honest Lie

“You look like you need to be kissed”
― Tarryn Fisher, An Honest Lie

“Overthinking is not a practical thing for an impulsive person to do.”
― Tarryn Fisher, An Honest Lie

“And then the man in the snakeskin boots led them into the Flatlands Women’s Correctional Facility, the place where her mother would be murdered.”
― Tarryn Fisher, An Honest Lie

“There was nothing more painful to Rainy than the way women greeted each other: the high-pitched squeals of joy, the touching and hugging, the exaggerated expressions that accompanied the small talk.”
― Tarryn Fisher, An Honest Lie

“I never considered that you wouldn’t want to go, I’m sorry.”
― Tarryn Fisher, An Honest Lie