Quotes from book

We Were Liars

“What if we could stop being different colors, different backgrounds, and just be in love?”

“The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever.”

“am not talking about fate. I don’t believe in destiny or soul mates or the supernatural. I just mean we understood each other. All the way.”

“I suffer migraines. I do not suffer fools. I like a twist of meaning. I endure.”

“My boyfriend is named Percocet," I say. "We're very close. I even went to Europe with him last summer.”

“We looked at the sky. So many stars, it seemed like a celebration, a grand, illicit party the galaxy was holding after the humans had been put to bed.”

“He was a person who couldn't fake a smile but smiled often.”

“We burned not a home, but a symbol.
We burned a symbol to the ground.”

“Suffer. You could say it means endure, but that's not exactly right”

“A part of me died,” he says. “And it was the best part.”

“For Gat with everything, everything. Cady”

“One day I looked at Gat, lying in the Clairmont hammock with a book, and he seemed, well, like he was mine. Like he was my particular person.”

“Always do what you're afraid to do.”

“Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.

Also, here is a green toothbrush tied in a ribbon. It expresses my feelings inadequately.”

“He asked about Dad and about Gran- as if talking about something could make it better. As if wounds needed attention.”

“You remind us that we’re selfish bastards. You’re not one of us, that way.”

“Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.”

“Silence is a protective coating over pain.”

“We are Sinclairs. Beautiful. Privileged. Damaged. Liar. We live, least in the summertime, on a private island off the coast of Massachusetts. Perhaps that is all you need to know.”