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1 " I don't know why it's so hard for people to admit that sometimes they're just assholes who screw up because they don't expect to get caught. "
― Karen M. McManus , One of Us Is Lying (One of Us is Lying, #1)
2 " Things'll get worse before they get better. "
3 " A couple of words is all it'll take to make everything in my life Before and After. "
4 " If I'm not thinking about one shit storm, I have to think about another. "
5 " It feels erratic ... But Alison knew what the problem was with her mother's heart: it was broken. "
― Karen M. McManus , The Cousins
6 " to err is human "
7 " It's been creeping up on me ever since I got to the island what my relationship with Thomas really is: something that should've ended a few months after it began in eighth grade, when he started treating me like an afterthought. But it didn't. Because there was something almost comfortable about that. I was used to it. "
8 " I hate department stores. They're too bright, too loud, and too crammed full of junk that nobody needs. Whenever I'm forced to spend time in one I start thinking about how consumer culture is just one long, expensive, planet-killing distraction from the fact that we're all going to die eventually. "
― Karen M. McManus , One of Us Is Next (One of Us Is Lying, #2)
9 " But can‘t change the past, you know? All you can do is try harder next time. "
10 " How do you make that choice?" I ask almost to myself. "Between what you need and what you want?" I feel like my sister's going through her own version of that. Kris's eyes are on Cooper, too. "You hope they become the same thing, I guess. "
11 " She's a princess and you're a jock," he says. He thrusts his chin toward Bronwyn, then at Nate. "And you're a brain. And you're a criminal. You're all walking teen-movie stereotypes. "
12 " You find out who your real friends are when stuff like this happens. Turns out I didn’t have any… "
13 " There are some things you can't undo no matter how good your intentions are. "
14 " In the interest of full disclosure, I stole baby Jesus, and it was definitely to mess with Bronwyn. "
15 " Sexism is alive and well in true-crime coverage, because Bronwyn and I aren't nearly as popular with the general public as Cooper and Nate "
16 " Cheating isn't a mistake. It's a choice. "
17 " I stand and hold out my hand. She gives me a skeptical look, but takes it and lets me pull her to her feet. I put my other hand in the air. 'Bronwyn Rojas, I solemnly swear not to murder you today or at any point in the future. Deal?''You're ridiculous,' she mutters, going even redder.'It concerns me you're avoiding a promise not to murder me. "
18 " I don't know where to look because there's no part of him that doesn't undo me. "
19 " Everybody's got secrets. "
20 " Welcome to life in a small town. You’re only as good as the best thing your family’s done. Or the worst. "
― Karen M. McManus , Two Can Keep a Secret
