Lie by the Pool Quotes

“I know it sounds like a contradiction, but she was both the most angelic and down-to-earth person I had ever met. She made me see things in new ways—a pool cabana was a playhouse, a song was a way for strangers to hold hands without touching, a traffic jam was a thousand souls trying to reconnect with their loved ones at once. Her imagination was as expansive as the California coastline. I”
― Susan Walter, Lie by the Pool

“But the problem with letting yourself be saved is that you forget how to save yourself.”
― Susan Walter, Lie by the Pool

“I read in some scientific journal that the brain doesn’t know the difference between a fantasy and a memory, that they both leave the same signature. I also read that a memory isn’t stored like data on a hard drive or a jar of olives in the pantry. Rather, it’s re-created from scratch every time you conjure it.”
― Susan Walter, Lie by the Pool

“Nobody tells you when you graduate college that getting the gang back together is like extracting troops from a war zone”
― Susan Walter, Lie by the Pool