The Lies We Steal Quotes

“Family wasn’t who you were born with. It was who you’d bleed for.”
― Monty Jay, The Lies We Steal

“It’s yours. Every warped part of me. It’s yours.”
― Monty Jay, The Lies We Steal

“I love being the person they shove in the shadows … I thrive there. We can do whatever we want inside of the shadows. It’s where I belong. Our invisibility doesn’t make us weak, Little Thief … it gives us power.”
― Monty Jay, The Lies We Steal

“Thatcher Pierson. Death manifested into one perfectly made human.”
― Monty Jay, The Lies We Steal

“I just wanna carry her one more time. Her feet get cold when she doesn’t wear shoes outside.”  Nobody, not a soul tried to stop him as he scooped her up into his arms. Her sluggish arm falling out from underneath the white sheet, the tips of her fingers painted bright red.”
― Monty Jay, The Lies We Steal

“Her name was Rosemary. And she was not just a girl.” His voice is coarse, not swift and sharp like Thatcher’s, or sarcastic like Rook’s. It’s coarse, rough, battered and beaten. It’s full of anguish and vengeance.  “She was mine. And now, you’re going to see what happens when someone fucks with things that belong to me.” He snarls in his ear.”
― Monty Jay, The Lies We Steal

“I will tear through the sky, rip heavens gates apart if that’s what it takes to prevent you from being at risk again. They will have to raise hell to stop me from protecting you. You understand?”
― Monty Jay, The Lies We Steal

“Rook rips the tape off his mouth, the sound of skin and hair teaching echoes, and shit immediately begins to pour out of his mouth.
“What the fuck is wrong with you!”
“As a unit?” Thatcher asks, “Too many things to count.”
― Monty Jay, The Lies We Steal

“I’m not sure what I can give you, but whatever is left of me, whatever I have, it’s yours, for as long as you want it.”
― Monty Jay, The Lies We Steal

“I wanted to be more than the man who scared her. I wanted to be a man she could love even if I had no idea what that meant for me.”
― Monty Jay, The Lies We Steal

“Ladies, we have more pressing matters at the moment. Put your dicks away,”
― Monty Jay, The Lies We Steal

“I'd never seen anyone so wrathful, but he made it look beautiful. This sort of molten anger rilled through his body, leaking from all his pores so it was all you could see. A cruel volcano of human rage that incinerated anyone he touched, yet you still stood there rivaling how nature could be so incredible, even when it was wreaking havoc.”
― Monty Jay, The Lies We Steal

“the boys stitched together with dark magic and cruel intentions always have the prettiest eyes.”
― Monty Jay, The Lies We Steal

“Surprising me, he slides my middle finger into his mouth.”
― Monty Jay, The Lies We Steal

“You don’t have to step into the light to find happiness. You just need to find the person willing to step into the grey area.”
― Monty Jay, The Lies We Steal

“When I’m around you my heart feels like it’s beating for the first time or you make me feel alive.”
― Monty Jay, The Lies We Steal

“I wanna know,” She breathes, “I wanna know what it is that makes the shadows so great. I want you to show me.”
― Monty Jay, The Lies We Steal

“It was about goddamn time she learned what happened when she didn’t play by my rules. ”
― Monty Jay, The Lies We Steal

“Thatcher looking at it as if it’s some sort of demonstration and he should be taking notes.”
― Monty Jay, The Lies We Steal

“door swinging open with a thud.  “Your knight in shining armor is here!” Rook sings as he waltzes into the room.”
― Monty Jay, The Lies We Steal

“Versace? To a crime scene?”
― Monty Jay, The Lies We Steal

“It’s yours. Every warped part of me. It’s yours, Little Thief. I hope you like playing in the shadows, we will be staying here for a while.”
― Monty Jay, The Lies We Steal

“When life gives you lemons, steal a fucking juicer.”
― Monty Jay, The Lies We Steal

“We can’t predict the future, Alistair. And it’s okay to be afraid of that. Being scared doesn’t make you weak, letting it stop you does.”
― Monty Jay, The Lies We Steal

“Rook.” Alistair grunts, nodding his head towards his friend. Quickly, so fast I barely see it, Rook Van Doren has Easton slammed onto the table. Pens and highlighters rolling onto the floor. Those in the library watching quite as a mouse, afraid one noise will have one of these rabid dogs tearing into them next. Alistair stands to his full height, a looming shadow as he bends to speak to Easton who is fighting against Rook’s hold, his cheek smooshed into the wood. “Say her name again,” Alistair bites, “and I’ll make you swallow your fucking teeth.”
― Monty Jay, The Lies We Steal

“The sons of the torturously wealthy. Ponderosa Springs’ worst nightmare. They are the Black Death of this town. Not because they are popular, but because they have the power to scare people. Legends. Pretentious and they own every single bit of it. I just, I don’t know why they are here.”
― Monty Jay, The Lies We Steal

“Uh, Silas Hawthorne.” She nods, “Heir to a technology empire. Diagnosed with schizophrenia when he was twelve. Of course his parents tried to cover it up, but there is nothing that stays quiet in Ponderosa Springs. Not forever, anyway. He never used to talk much, but now, since Rosemary, he’s practically a mute.”
― Monty Jay, The Lies We Steal

“But most of us, all of us really, we steal time.  We aren’t owed any set number of minutes on this earth, yet we take it anyway. Every day you wake up, is another day yanked from the inside of the hourglass.”
― Monty Jay, The Lies We Steal

“For me love shouldn’t be comfortable. Love should make you uncomfortable, it should challenge you, it should push your limits, make you grow as person and all of those things you have to be out of your comfort zone to do.”
― Monty Jay, The Lies We Steal

“Love is real. A tangible thing you can run your fingers over”
― Monty Jay, The Lies We Steal