Everyone Here Is Lying Quotes

“She knows that it’s not necessarily the ones who seem different that you need to be afraid of—it’s the ones who can carry off normal without anyone suspecting a thing.”
― Shari Lapena, Everyone Here Is Lying

“Why do men always think they should be forgiven? That they only have to ask?”
― Shari Lapena, Everyone Here Is Lying

“She’s got the cold, unfeeling selfishness of a psychopath. In that, they are alike. And in her final moment, as she feels blood trickling down her neck, Marion knows that Avery has won.”
― Shari Lapena, Everyone Here Is Lying

“I’m autistic, not stupid,’ the boy says bluntly. Then he proceeds to put down his drone”
― Shari Lapena, Everyone Here Is Lying

“No one ever tells you how complicated it is being a parent. How much energy it sucks out of you. The toll it takes on a marriage. Somehow simply growing up in a family isn’t such great preparation for having your own. As Erin drives, it begins to rain.”
― Shari Lapena, Everyone Here Is Lying

“She’d missed this. They had all missed this. It will go down as the biggest gaffe of her career. Why had they not looked more closely at Marion Cooke earlier? She’d seemed a credible witness, saying she’d seen Avery get into Ryan Blanchard’s car. And the whole time Avery had been held captive in her basement.”
― Shari Lapena, Everyone Here Is Lying

“But then he wonders if they’ve already found his other phone. He keeps it hidden in his car, an Infiniti G37 sedan. His car is in their garage. They must have searched it last night when they searched the house. But one of the reasons he recently bought that car is that it has a secret compartment in the rear-seat armrest. Do they know about that? Is it possible that they missed it? The room is too warm,”
― Shari Lapena, Everyone Here Is Lying

“That car of yours—the Infiniti G37 sedan—it’s new, isn’t it?” William nods. “The burner phone was unexpected. I can understand how it was missed in the initial search of the car in your garage. There’s a secret compartment in the rear-seat armrest, something put there by the carmaker, but not widely known. It’s there if you Google it. You obviously knew about it. Is that why you bought that car, Dr. Wooler?”
― Shari lapena, Everyone Here Is Lying

“I’m autistic, not stupid,”
― Shari Lapena, Everyone Here Is Lying

“She grows wilder in her thoughts.”
― Shari Lapena, Everyone Here Is Lying

“behaviuoral issues,”
― Shari Lapena, Everyone Here Is Lying

“She sits for a long time, then starts the car and drives home. She can’t do it. She won’t see William again. She has to put her children first now.”
― Shari Lapena, Everyone Here Is Lying

“And if Avery isn’t still alive, it is still in your best interest to cut a deal. Do the decent thing and tell us where she is. Give the parents some closure.”
― Shari Lapena, Everyone Here Is Lying

“And they will deny and deny and deny that Derek ever touched her. And chances are, Avery’s never coming back to say anything different.”
― Shari Lapena, Everyone Here Is Lying

“He feels hollowed out, after everything that’s happened. He can hardly think straight.”
― Shari Lapena, Everyone Here Is Lying

“But she knows the awful statistics—that about 75 percent of children who are abducted and killed are murdered within the first three hours of when they were taken, 88 percent within twenty-four hours.”
― Shari Lapena, Everyone Here Is Lying

“It has just made the local evening news at seven o’clock. Breaking News . . . A nine-year-old girl has gone missing while walking home alone after school in the town of Stanhope, New York . .”
― Shari Lapena, Everyone Here Is Lying

“Is she having sex with my father?” she asks. Marion looks at her as if surprised that a nine-year-old would say such a thing.”
― Shari Lapena, Everyone Here Is Lying

“There are empty hooks below. Avery”
― Shari Lapena, Everyone Here Is Lying

“No one ever tells you how complicated it is being a parent. How much energy it sucks out of you. The toll it takes on a marriage. Somehow simply growing up in a family isn’t such great preparation for having your own.”
― Shari Lapena, Everyone Here Is Lying

“There’s more to this story, isn’t there, Avery? Why don’t you tell us what really happened, from the beginning.”
― Shari Lapena, Everyone Here Is Lying

“He knows that his mother and father each see Avery differently. His mother thinks much better of Avery than she really should. But that’s because Avery plays differently to each of them. She is one Avery to her mother and a different Avery to her father. Their dad quite frequently sees through her, and so does Michael.”
― Shari Lapena, Everyone Here Is Lying

“Now she’s acting like she’s famous, and the thing is, she really is famous. He feels like he’s living in some awful reality TV show, only none of it feels real.”
― Shari Lapena, Everyone Here Is Lying

“His mother sounded as if she were at her breaking point, drained of energy. She’d already lost the argument with Avery about the television interview. She’d finally agreed to let her do just one, in a controlled environment.”
― Shari Lapena, Everyone Here Is Lying

“They have never been able to control Avery, that’s the problem. She does what she wants, and they are helpless to stop her. If she wants to talk to the press, all she has to do is walk out the front door and open her mouth. It’s not like Erin can keep her in restraints.”
― Shari Lapena, Everyone Here Is Lying

“The mutual liking and respect that had existed between Erin and Gully at the beginning of the investigation has evaporated. The successful conclusion, after all, had nothing to do with good police work, and they both know it. And now there’s this. Erin can’t help thinking that if they had done their jobs better, they might have found Avery before she’d been forced to push Marion down the stairs. But she’s too well behaved to say this out loud. Erin wonders if Gully can read her thoughts – her regretful expression indicates that she might.”
― Shari Lapena, Everyone Here Is Lying

“But no different than before. Except – if anything – she might be more cheerful. She isn’t withdrawn or having nightmares or wetting the bed. Erin will try to make an appointment with a doctor – one from the list – soon, but she worries that Avery will refuse to go.”
― Shari Lapena, Everyone Here Is Lying

“Self-defence is a legal defence, not a manner of death,’ Bledsoe explains. ‘For a death that is not from natural causes, the ME can only make a ruling of accident, homicide, suicide, or undetermined.”
― Shari Lapena, Everyone Here Is Lying

“If they let her do it, it will make them look like parents capitalizing on their daughter’s tragedy. But the more she says no, the more her daughter insists, becoming an all-too-familiar power struggle, until Erin calls an attorney at the firm where she works for advice.”
― Shari Lapena, Everyone Here Is Lying

“They hate each other; the poison between them will leach out to their kids. They will all be better off if they separate. If they stay together, they’ll become more twisted versions of themselves.”
― Shari Lapena, Everyone Here Is Lying