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That Way Madness Lies QUOTES

1 " You misunderstand me. They set us up … to live out the story of Benedick and Beatrice. To fall for one another or some such nonsense. Hazem admitted it moments ago. "

― Dahlia Adler , That Way Madness Lies

2 " This sort of vapid family arrangement had unfortunately put Taron’s constant oddness into a new context. Tegan could see the lonely rich boy all grown up. Especially now. "

― Dahlia Adler , That Way Madness Lies

3 " Your dad gave you a Benz for your seventeenth birthday, and you already totaled it. You know what my pop got me for my seventeenth birthday? A phone call. In February. "

― Dahlia Adler , That Way Madness Lies

4 " Tony laughs. “Yeah, because it’s hilarious. Anyway, kid deserves it, hiding his horns under that little Jewfro, acting like he’s some poor ‘minority’ when he could probably buy and sell all of us.” “Man, I think you might be spending too much time watching Fox News with your dad. "

― Dahlia Adler , That Way Madness Lies

5 " isn’t watching Fox News with his dad, is the thing. Well, he does that too, but mostly his dad sits and yells about how the Jews and the Chinese and the Mexicans are destroying the economy. He doesn’t do anything about it, though, and Tony’s tired of not doing anything. "

― Dahlia Adler , That Way Madness Lies

6 " Not give—lend! Isn’t that what your people do? You lend money to poor suckers and then charge a million percent interest? That’s all I’m asking for here. You lend me … let’s say, three hundred bucks now, and I’ll pay it back with interest.” “If you can afford to pay back a loan with interest, then why don’t you just lend Sebastian the money? "

― Dahlia Adler , That Way Madness Lies

7 " And then Shai steps around him like he’s nothing more than an inconvenient ant in the path of an elephant’s paw and lets himself into the library, where Mx. Tubal awaits with the shadow of a smile on their lips and ears full of earbuds that play nothing at all. "

― Dahlia Adler , That Way Madness Lies

8 " Pretty sure I can. You signed the contract. You’re a witness that he owes me this. And before you get high and mighty about it, why didn’t you just use your own money to take out Persia? I mean, it’s kind of your fault he’s in this position in the first place, isn’t it?” “I’d have had money if he hadn’t ‘borrowed’ it from me for a concert ticket he couldn’t afford,” Bas snaps. “You’re not the only one he screwed over. "

― Dahlia Adler , That Way Madness Lies

9 " This tattoo was supposed to be proof of his supremacy, and he will leave here with a wound that will scar into proof he is no white king, not even a knight. "

― Dahlia Adler , That Way Madness Lies

10 " I will tell everyone every single thing that happened here today, right down to you desperately needing a change of pants. You hear me? "

― Dahlia Adler , That Way Madness Lies

11 " Don’t.” Shai squeezes her hand. “You’ve got your reasons for hiding your Jewishness, and I’ve got my reasons for wearing mine on my sleeve. Or, more literally, on my head, I guess. We both know the world isn’t exactly kind to us. "

― Dahlia Adler , That Way Madness Lies

12 " Sophie who had won the money to come across the country to school. Sophie who escaped. "

― Dahlia Adler , That Way Madness Lies

13 " Bitch, most would say. Tyrant. They wouldn’t be wrong. It was never about who Julia was, though. It was what she made out of the rest of "

― Dahlia Adler , That Way Madness Lies

14 " But the seven of us are here for a different kind of power. The kind even money can’t command. It isn’t enough to make this town our own. We want the same thing the Shade sought—an eternity to savor and forge. "

― Dahlia Adler , That Way Madness Lies

15 " Yeah, but.” Briony huffs. “Don’t you think she wants it too much? The power, I mean. Doesn’t it scare you, what she might do? "

― Dahlia Adler , That Way Madness Lies

16 " I’m okay,” I muttered, even though no one had asked, even though it wasn’t true. "

― Dahlia Adler , That Way Madness Lies

17 " It was rewarding. It helped me in the process of reconvincing myself that I was capable of creating an environment in which living things could grow and thrive. "

― Dahlia Adler , That Way Madness Lies

18 " Over the course of just the last two days Mateo was clearly getting worse, wilting and going brittle, barely hanging on. If he were a plant, I could repot him in this new, chocolate-cake soil and water him, and maybe he’d take root and get a second life, but, unfortunately, Mateo was a boy, not a plant. "

― Dahlia Adler , That Way Madness Lies

19 " But the thing about Hansel and Gretel is that their parents abandoned them in the woods to starve. Perdita didn’t want to know if she’d been left in the woods. It was easier to imagine that she’d just been born there. "

― Dahlia Adler , That Way Madness Lies

20 " What if Zal chose her but then had to lose that light in his eyes whenever he talked about the accusative case in Latin? What if he doesn’t choose me? "

― Dahlia Adler , That Way Madness Lies