Mina > Mina's Quotes

“We are liars. We are beautiful and privileged. We are cracked and broken.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“Here I am frozen, when I deserve to burn.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“I suffer migraines. I do not suffer fools.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“Better than chocolate, being with you last night. Silly me, I thought that nothing was better than chocolate.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“Then he pulled out a handgun and shot me in the chest. I was standing on the lawn and I fell. The bullet hole opened wide and my heart rolled out of my rib cage and down into a flower bed. Blood gushed rhythmically from my open wound,
then from my eyes,
my ears,
my mouth.
It tasted like salt and failure. The bright red shame of being unloved soaked the grass in front of our house, the bricks of the path, the steps of the porch. My heart spasmed among the peonies like a trout.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“Be normal, now. Right now. Because you are. Because you can be.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“I lie there and wait, and remind myself over and over that it doesn’t last forever. That there will be another day and after that, yet another day. One of those days, I’ll get up and eat breakfast and feel okay.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“I used to be strong,but now I am weak.
I used to be pretty,but now I look sick.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“You remind us that we’re selfish bastards. You’re not one of us, that way.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“Suffer. You could say it means endure, but that's not exactly right”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“I suffer migraines. I do not suffer fools. I like a twist of meaning. I endure.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars