Midnight Lies Quotes

“Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.’” “Quoting Shakespeare”
― Naomi West, Midnight Lies

“to claim the crown.” “‘Heavy is the head,”
― Naomi West, Midnight Lies

“Why is everything always so hard?” “That’s life, as far as I’m aware. Endlessly cruel.”
― Naomi West, Midnight Lies

“Bible verse. Hebrews 13:4. “‘Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.”
― Naomi West, Midnight Lies

“I dare because people like you walk around like you own the world, when really, you spend your entire pitiful life stacking up your lopsided tower of toy blocks, hoping no one bigger and stronger comes along to knock it down. But me? I’m bigger. I’m stronger. And I take a very distinct pleasure in stomping your world to fucking smithereens.”
― Naomi West, Midnight Lies

“Death is part of life.”
― Naomi West, Midnight Lies

“Humans are selfish and cruel and possessive and jealous and greedy. And violent. Violent above all. The only difference is… some of us are better at it.”
― Naomi West, Midnight Lies

“Who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him’?” I whisper-quote like I’m dreaming. Then I shake my head. “I was in Macbeth”
― Naomi West, Midnight Lies

“Don’t fear, I am with you.”
― Naomi West, Midnight Lies

“My life may be dark and bloody and messy, but I'm alive because I earned it. I'm alive because I fought,”
― Naomi West, Midnight Lies

“And when you've fought to earn your place amongst the living, you get to enjoy the spoils," he grimaces. "So I drink more and I fuck more. Because unlike some normal asshole in a normal tie sitting behind his normal computer, I know what lurks in the dark.”
― Naomi West, Midnight Lies

“I am the kind of man who takes what he wants. I am the kind of man who fights for what he has. I am the man who fucks his wife on his dead ex-fiancée’s bed, because the past can’t contain me and I mold the future to my liking.”
― Naomi West, Midnight Lies

“It’s better to know the truth and suffer the consequences than live in the lie.”
― Naomi West, Midnight Lies

“I don’t think you’re supposed to speak ill of the dead.” “When the dead are spineless bastards who don’t take care of their own children, I’ll say whatever the fuck I want.”
― Naomi West, Midnight Lies

“Family is important to the Bratva, isn’t it? Shouldn’t it mean something?” “Not when trust is broken,”
― Naomi West, Midnight Lies

“fuck fate. We make our own destinies.”
― Naomi West, Midnight Lies