Family of Liars Quotes

“Not all pain is worth it,’ said Tipper. ‘Some pain is just pain.”
― E. Lockhart, Family of Liars

“Now that I am grown, I think don’t take no for an answer is a lesson we teach boys who would be better off learning that no means no.”
― E. Lockhart, Family of Liars

“Don’t pretend you would never hurt anybody.”
― E. Lockhart, Family of Liars

“Sometimes things are fragile. That's why they're valuable.”
― E. Lockhart, Family of Liars

“Telling this story will be painful. In fact, I do not know if I can tell it truthfully, though I'll try. I have been a liar all my life, you see. It's not uncommon in our family.”
― E. Lockhart, Family of Liars

“we need you' means my sisters love me, they rely on me, the admire me.”
― E. Lockhart, Family of Liars

“I don't even have my real face anymore, I don't even know who I see in the mirror.”
― E. Lockhart, Family of Liars

“She is a ghost climbing out of the sea, returning to the spot where no one loved her quite enough to keep her safe.”
― E. Lockhart, Family of Liars

“They're doing just as I asked them to. As we Sinclairs always do. Pretending. Lying. Trying to have a good time.”
― E. Lockhart, Family of Liars

“But my insides are made of seawater, warped wood, and rusty nails.”
― E. Lockhart, Family of Liars

“No one in this family can see what's right in front of them.”
― E. Lockhart, Family of Liars

“I'd think of these images -
people dying, a city drowning -
instead of thinking about Rosemary, dying, drowning.”
― E. Lockhart, Family of Liars

“We can argue about it in hell.”
― E. Lockhart, Family of Liars

“It’s joy,’ said Tipper. ‘I aim to live a joyful life, Carrie. And I think you should, too. I think maybe you’ve lost track of that, a little.”
― E. Lockhart, Family of Liars

“I do not love my father's way of thinking, but much of it has become mine.”
― E. Lockhart, Family of Liars

“but I also wanted to be seen and heard and recognized, truly, by another person.”
― E. Lockhart, Family of Liars

“It's better, I think, to move on. To look forward.”
― E. Lockhart, Family of Liars

“I walk a path of my parents’ making. I walk it the same way I walk the wooden walkways they’ve made that stretch across Beechwood. I do not see how to step off. If I exit the walkways into the bushes, under the trees, or onto the sand — it doesn’t matter. I am still on their island.”
― E. Lockhart, Family of Liars

“I'm not sorry. For anything. At all.”
― E. Lockhart, Family of Liars

“This is the only time I will ever tell, I say to myself.”
― E. Lockhart, Family of Liars

“But he talked like the kisses were sort of a joke, merely something fun to do so as not to waste the beauty of the evening and the drama of the landscape.
pg. 91”
― E. Lockhart, Family of Liars

“We can’t change what’s in the newspaper”
― E. Lockhart, Family of Liars

“I don’t want to be near [them] any longer than I have to, or see pictures of the little boy who grew up to think a girl’s body belonged to him just because he said please.”
― E. Lockhart, Family of Liars

“She is certain of her place in the world, oblivious, happy, better able just to love & be loved.”
― E. Lockhart, Family of Liars

“Be a little kinder than you have to be.”
― E. Lockhart, Family of Liars

“Manners are kindness,”
― E. Lockhart, Family of Liars

“I want to be the kind of girl a guy would remember to meet. The kind of girl that boys will wait hours for.”
― E. Lockhart, Family of Liars

“I think "don't take no for an answer" is a lesson we teach boys who would be better off learning "no means no”
― E. Lockhart, Family of Liars

“Me, I am an athlete and a narcotics addict. A leader and a mourner”
― E. Lockhart, Family of Liars

“Dragging up old hurts doesn't make things better.”
― E. Lockhart, Family of Liars