How We Learned to Lie Quotes

“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: A Novel

“There were new kinds of emptiness between us now, wounds that would never close up.”
― Meredith Miller, How We Learned to Lie: A Novel

“It was complicated and beautiful, and it made me furious.”
― Meredith Miller, How We Learned to Lie: A Novel

“If you have a dreaming mind, it's a crime to waste it, especially in this country.”
― Meredith Miller, How We Learned to Lie: A Novel

“Why are everyone's horrible secrets always falling out of the corners onto my fucking head?”
― Meredith Miller, How We Learned to Lie: A Novel

“The thing is, it didn't fit together. It was the mess that made us.”
― Meredith Miller, How We Learned to Lie: A Novel

“He would have realized, right in that last second, the meaning of time.”
― Meredith Miller, How We Learned to Lie: A Novel

“The whole world had flipped over and gotten tangled up into the sky.”
― Meredith Miller, How We Learned to Lie: A Novel

“I didn't need to hide because I was already invisible.”
― Meredith Miller, How We Learned to Lie: A Novel

“I'm the poison, the source of all the lies and the blindness.”
― Meredith Miller, How We Learned to Lie: A Novel

“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: A Novel

“You might break the silence everybody's using to glue their lives together.”
― Meredith Miller, How We Learned to Lie: A Novel

“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: A Novel

“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: A Novel

“Last year the cracks in our world got so big we couldn't reach across them anymore.”
― Meredith Miller, How We Learned to Lie: A Novel

“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: A Novel

“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: A Novel

“I felt like a strong light could erase me.”
― Meredith Miller, How We Learned to Lie: A Novel

“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: A Novel

“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: A Novel

“Thinking back, I can almost feel the air in the commons that day, the things eddying around us. We were breathing in violence and desperation and other people’s hallucinations, but it was all invisible to us then. Like the fluoride in the water or the radiation from Brookhaven, the DDT and the valium and the Strontium 90. All the heavy atoms and alkaloid molecules that shape us and then break us apart.”
― Meredith Miller, How We Learned to Lie: A Novel

“Thinking back, I can almost feel the air in the commons that day, the things eddying around us. We were breathing in violence and desperation and other people’s hallucinations, but it was all invisible to us then. Like the fluoride in the water or the radiation from Brookhaven, the DDT and the valium and the Strontium 90. All the heavy atoms and alkaloid
molecules that shape us and then break us apart.”
― Meredith Miller, How We Learned to Lie: A Novel