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How We Learned to Lie QUOTES

How We Learned to Lie QUOTES

1 " Someone peeled back the surface of our town, and the whole country saw what was underneath. By Easter 1980 we were creepier than Amityville. "

― Meredith Miller , How We Learned to Lie

2 " The thing is, it didn't fit together. It was the mess that made us. "

― Meredith Miller , How We Learned to Lie

3 " Sometimes when you're mad it seems like you lost people, but later you find out you didn't. "

― Meredith Miller , How We Learned to Lie

4 " I felt like a strong light could erase me. "

― Meredith Miller , How We Learned to Lie

5 " It didn't look any different that night, but all the invisible changes were already working their way to the surface. "

― Meredith Miller , How We Learned to Lie

6 " Now we're broke. Broken. So I'm looking back from here at that night when I was happy. "

― Meredith Miller , How We Learned to Lie

7 " Last year the cracks in our world got so big we couldn't reach across them anymore. "

― Meredith Miller , How We Learned to Lie

8 " But I just felt suffocated by the blanket people had thrown over my life.
I wanted to push it off and start yelling about what was underneath. "

― Meredith Miller , How We Learned to Lie

9 " The thing is, once your questions stop being the "why is the sky blue?" kind and start to really matter, people panic. "

― Meredith Miller , How We Learned to Lie

10 " You might break the silence everybody's using to glue their lives together. "

― Meredith Miller , How We Learned to Lie

11 " People either gave me a load of pointless advice or tried to make me shut up.
Like the truth was just some problem I had. Some phase I was going through.
They were all trying to calm me down and shush me. "

― Meredith Miller , How We Learned to Lie

12 " I'm the poison, the source of all the lies and the blindness. "

― Meredith Miller , How We Learned to Lie

13 " I didn't need to hide because I was already invisible. "

― Meredith Miller , How We Learned to Lie

14 " The whole world had flipped over and gotten tangled up into the sky. "

― Meredith Miller , How We Learned to Lie

15 " He would have realized, right in that last second, the meaning of time. "

― Meredith Miller , How We Learned to Lie

16 " Why are everyone's horrible secrets always falling out of the corners onto my fucking head? "

― Meredith Miller , How We Learned to Lie

17 " If you have a dreaming mind, it's a crime to waste it, especially in this country. "

― Meredith Miller , How We Learned to Lie

18 " It was complicated and beautiful, and it made me furious. "

― Meredith Miller , How We Learned to Lie

19 " There were new kinds of emptiness between us now, wounds that would never close up. "

― Meredith Miller , How We Learned to Lie

20 " Anyway, free that moment. Look at it. It was right before the final thing fell down into our lives. The one we never asked for and couldn't contain. "

― Meredith Miller , How We Learned to Lie