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One of Us Is Next (One of Us Is Lying, #2) QUOTES

One of Us Is Next (One of Us Is Lying, #2) QUOTES

1 " 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)

2 " But can‘t change the past, you know? All you can do is try harder next time. "

― Karen M. McManus , One of Us Is Next (One of Us Is Lying, #2)

3 " 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. "

― Karen M. McManus , One of Us Is Next (One of Us Is Lying, #2)

4 " My sisters treated me like a living doll for years, carrying me around so much that I didn’t bother learning to walk until I was almost two. "

― Karen M. McManus , One of Us Is Next (One of Us Is Lying, #2)

5 " Addy gives me hope, because even though her life fell apart when Simon’s blog revealed her worst mistake, she put things back together–better than before. She’s stronger, happier, and much closer to her sister. Addy is the queen of second chances, and right now I really need the reminder that those exist. "

― Karen M. McManus , One of Us Is Next (One of Us Is Lying, #2)

6 " I don’t understand why the world insists on stuffing kids into boxes we never asked for, and then gets mad when we won’t stay there. "

― Karen M. McManus , One of Us Is Next (One of Us Is Lying, #2)

7 " We’re endgame.”
I wipe a stray tear from the corner of my eye. “What does that mean?”
“It means that we’ll wind up together eventually. It might take a year for us to sort everything out, or two, or ten. Whatever. But it’ll happen. "

― Karen M. McManus , One of Us Is Next (One of Us Is Lying, #2)

8 " But you can’t change the past, you know? All you can do is try harder next time. So don’t give up on yourself just yet. "

― Karen M. McManus , One of Us Is Next (One of Us Is Lying, #2)

9 " Holding on to resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. "

― Karen M. McManus , One of Us Is Next (One of Us Is Lying, #2)

10 " Good thing life is long and high school is short "

― Karen M. McManus , One of Us Is Next (One of Us Is Lying, #2)

11 " Who do you want to be? The guy who goes along or the guy who stands up? This is the time to decide. "

― Karen M. McManus , One of Us Is Next (One of Us Is Lying, #2)

12 " People who never get told no are so bad at hearing it. "

― Karen M. McManus , One of Us Is Next (One of Us Is Lying, #2)

13 " Sometimes, you don't know what you want until you see it. "

― Karen M. McManus , One of Us Is Next (One of Us Is Lying, #2)

14 " No matter how much you care about someone, things change when they used to be around all the time an then suddenly, they're not. "

― Karen M. McManus , One of Us Is Next (One of Us Is Lying, #2)

15 " We’re like the Kardashians, except without any money. "

― Karen M. McManus , One of Us Is Next (One of Us Is Lying, #2)

16 " love and hope and beauty still exist, even when things seem impossibly dark. "

― Karen M. McManus , One of Us Is Next (One of Us Is Lying, #2)

17 " It sucks when the person who ruined your life gets to walk around like always.
As if what they did doesn’t matter.
I beg to disagree with your conclusion, though.
There’s always something you can do.—Darkestmind "

― Karen M. McManus , One of Us Is Next (One of Us Is Lying, #2)

18 " It's not nerdy to care about fonts! "

― Karen M. McManus , One of Us Is Next (One of Us Is Lying, #2)

19 " At this moment, I’ve never wanted to do anything as much as I want to grab his face and kiss every inch of it. "

― Karen M. McManus , One of Us Is Next (One of Us Is Lying, #2)

20 " I can’t stop thinking about how rare it is to have someone you can be completely real with, even when things get raw and uncomfortable and a little scary. Especially then. "

― Karen M. McManus , One of Us Is Next (One of Us Is Lying, #2)