The Lie Quotes

“We all make mistakes, but once we start repeating them, they’re not mistakes. They’re choices.”
― Karla Sorensen, The Lie

“Grief doesn’t fade, no matter what bullshit people feed you after someone dies. It’s always fucking there, crowding the base of your throat and weighing down”
― Karla Sorensen, The Lie

“Better than a drunk football player who couldn’t pluck basic manners from their asshole if their life depended on it.” My smile was soft, beatific, and it made his face turn even stormier. “I don’t date football players, and guys like you are exactly why it’s so easy to remember why.”
― Karla Sorensen, The Lie

“When I looked up, Faith watched with a careful smile. Fuck if I didn’t love that smile, and the fact that I’d put it on her face.”
― Karla Sorensen, The Lie

“Trying to mold yourself into a person who wasn’t constantly waiting for someone to take a wrecking ball to their life was hard fucking work.”
― Karla Sorensen, The Lie

“In general, I was a pretty easygoing person … except when I wasn’t. I liked knowing what to expect. I liked feeling competent in what I was doing. And when those things were removed from the situation, off-balance was a great way to describe it. I”
― Karla Sorensen, The Lie

“You and I are planners, Faith. We need someone who’s not afraid to knock us off-balance.”
― Karla Sorensen, The Lie

“Judging by the look on your face, I think you may have the answer of whether he’s that person or not.” I set my hands over my cheeks. “I can’t know that before the first date, Molly.” “Can’t you?” she asked lightly. “As far as I know, there’s no timeline of what’s right or wrong. It might come completely out of nowhere. But if you feel it, then go for it. You’ll know soon enough if him being in this world with you is too much or not.”
― Karla Sorensen, The Lie

“We’d honed our mission at Team Sutton to focus on after-school programs for kids in elementary and middle school in lower-income areas, where the extracurricular activities were just too expensive. The skills the kids learned from such things as playing in sports, participating in plays, and getting some extra help with their reading had lasting impacts on the rest of their life.”
― Karla Sorensen, The Lie

“Faith shrugged, giving me a strange look as I stared at her. “I’m around too many kids on a weekly basis. If I don’t find creative ways to swear, I’d get myself fired really quick.”
― Karla Sorensen, The Lie

“Oh, fracksticks, I have to get back to my office for a meeting.”
― Karla Sorensen, The Lie

“Her face scrunched up in an adorable grimace, and holy fuck, I was thinking words like adorable grimace. How quickly the tides had turned.”
― Karla Sorensen, The Lie