Going Dark Quotes

“She was an enigma in so many ways, even if her whole life was online.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Going Dark

“I loved her. And she didn’t love me back. She wanted to break up with me. She tried to run. I couldn’t let her leave. I grabbed her, and held her down, and she screamed, and she wouldn’t stop screaming, and I had to make her quiet so she would listen. I loved her so much, and she wouldn’t listen.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Going Dark

“If the girl was anything like Harper, she would have an itemized list and a step-by-step process for carrying out her revenge. So if she really did risk someone recognizing her, it had to be for something important.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Going Dark

“I’m watching you, Josh,” she said. “So are the police. You can’t hide anymore. You’re going to have to keep looking over your shoulder, wherever you go now, because they will come for you soon, and when they do, I will be there to watch.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Going Dark

“Everything Amelia had posted online had been a lie, yes. The relatable, inspirational, authentic girl had been a fraud all along. Josh had been too swept up in his own narrative to realize it had been Mignon’s spirit she was mirroring back to him.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Going Dark

“Tori did something like this on Derek’s phone, it would be grounds for a breakup. If Josh found out, he might kill her, and then all of this, everything she’d done, would be for nothing.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Going Dark

“He was the one who’d made her this way. He’d turned her into this person sitting next to him, a beast with venom in her veins. She was forced to sharpen her edges into needle points because of him.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Going Dark

“it wasn’t Tori’s fault that she was friends with a killer. But another part of her, a cold and dead part, said it was necessary. Tori had a role to play in all of this; it was for the greater good.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Going Dark

“It helped that Amelia looked more like her mother’s side of the family, and it was startling to see how easy it was to pass.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Going Dark

“Hope was like a wound, and, if not properly cared for, it festered. It turned sour and acrid.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Going Dark

“It didn’t matter that Amelia was fluent in Mandarin and could code as well as a first-year at Peking University, she was still treated like her mother: as an interloper.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Going Dark

“I’ve never said it to his face, but sometimes he can be a little controlling. He tries to tell me what to wear, how to do my hair, that I’m too loud sometimes.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Going Dark

“Because I look Chinese, like Dad, people always think I should be good at school for some reason. They’ve said so to my face—teachers, counselors, even the vice principal last year. They all think I should be a “model student.” (I’m not the smart one in the family. I already have enough going for me. Can’t have it all! Ha!) They don’t say the quiet part out loud, that they think all Asians are overachievers with perfect grades, but I get the message loud and clear.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Going Dark

“Then he said that he might call child services if Mom or Dad couldn’t keep watch over me. The specific words he used were child endangerment.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Going Dark

“A treasure hunt, like geocaching. Digital hide-and-seek in the real world. And she was good with computers, studied computer science, and loved codes and ciphers. Adventure was her second nature.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Going Dark

“Josh’s whole face blazed hotter than the sun. Amelia attacked him! He should be considered a victim, not a suspect! She was the one who’d lunged over the table, grabbing at his throat and screaming about how much she hated him! And even then, he loved her. Still loved her.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Going Dark

“A bunch of fans’ parasocial relationship with a missing woman is not exactly robust evidence, detective,” Wilkinson said.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Going Dark

“One day she’s kissing you, the next she’s attacking you . . . Seems like you had a pretty tumultuous relationship, no?” she asked Josh, ignoring Wilkinson completely.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Going Dark

“Sure, I’m just glad you believe me.” “Belief doesn’t win cases, Mr. Reuter. But I do.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Going Dark

“With everything else going wrong so far, he was sure the police would try to use his sweat as some sort of proof of guilt.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Going Dark

“I’m just a little lonely, that’s all. I don’t know what my future has in store. I don’t want to talk to Josh about it, just because I don’t think he’d understand.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Going Dark

“Harper was well aware of how pretty white women enchanted society. Girls with brown skin like hers disappeared every day and people on the internet barely batted an eye.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Going Dark

“Any time a girl went missing was sad, but Harper felt it was particularly typical of everyone to care when the victim was a pretty blond girl who was probably loaded.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Going Dark

“Advertisers loved her, brands were eager to work with her. She was entirely real and that was hard to come by online. Where the whole world looked fake, she wasn’t.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Going Dark

“She radiated confidence, and poise, and a brightness that was hard to ignore. Josh felt like the luckiest guy in the world when he entered her orbit. By then, she was already popular on Instagram. She had several hundred thousand followers and was making a name for herself online.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Going Dark

“Oh, thank you, young man!” one of the women said. Her glasses made her eyes look gigantic. “Chivalry still exists in this day and age. See, Flo? What a gentleman.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Going Dark

“Derek and his girlfriend Tori were made for each other, and probably headed for the whole kids and white picket fence life.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Going Dark

“She couldn’t have been much older than he was at nineteen, and guys who looked like him were used to pretty women smiling his way. Still, he wasn’t interested in taking advantage of the fact that his girlfriend had abandoned him in Rome.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Going Dark