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“Our wounds don't make us special. They only mean we've been hurt.

Suffering isn't romantic. It's just painful.”
― Sarah Lyu, The Best Lies

“We were a forest fire, wild and full of rage. We were a galaxy unto ourselves, a million stars blazing bright.

Everything was possible then.”
― Sarah Lyu, The Best Lies

“Trauma has a gravity of its own, but so does love—an invisible force, an unseen tether. How easy it is, then, to feel the pull of one and confuse it with the other.”
― Sarah Lyu, The Best Lies

“We’re the heroes in this story, born of tragic circumstances, yes, but also strong enough to overcome them. We’ll win the day.”
― Sarah Lyu, The Best Lies

“I want my life to mean something. I want to be remembered. Because why even bother being alive if you’re not going to leave a mark, if you’re not going to really live?”
― Sarah Lyu, The Best Lies

“Love is to need and be needed. Love is truest, strongest when you need each other, when you can’t live without each other.”
― Sarah Lyu, The Best Lies

“It took only a few words from Elise to make me feel special, but it took only a few words from her to make me feel like shit" -Remy”
― Sarah Lyu, The Best Lies

“You want me to fight for you, is that it? I can do that,” she said.
“That’s not it,” I said, growing agitated. “Stop. Just stop. It’s not a competition! I love both of you, okay?”
“You love him now?” she asked in shock. I was surprised too. I hadn’t known how I felt until that moment.
“I do.”
She scoffed.
I sighed. “You want it to be just two of us together.”
“And what is wrong with that?”
― Sarah Lyu, The Best Lies

“There’s already so much awful shit out there, why add more?”
― Sarah Lyu, The Best Lies

“Jack: Do you ever get hit by a weird sense of longing?
Remy: What do you mean?
Jack: Like a sharp and sudden pang. It's almost like feeling homesick, but homesick isn't the right word for it. You might not be far from home, or you might even be at home and still get hit by it, this - this yearning.
Remy: I think I know the feeling you're talking about. I think it is a kind of homesickness, but not for home. It's like a piece of you is missing. Maybe you lost it, or maybe you never had it, but something is just not there and you don't know where to even begin looking for it. A homesickness not for a place but for another life entirely. Another you.”
― Sarah Lyu, The Best Lies

“Trauma has a gravity of its own, powerful enough to distort everything that came before and everything that comes after. Each wound a landmark on the road of your life. Each wound a signpost marking an end, a door slammed shut, forever closed to the person you could’ve been, the life you could’ve had if only, if only— But then there is the first one, the very first trauma, and isn’t that where everyone’s story begins?”
― Sarah Lyu, The Best Lies

“Suffering isn't romantic. It's just painful." -Remy”
― Sarah Lyu, The Best Lies

“Trauma has a gravity of its own, powerful enough to distort everything that came before and everything that comes after. Each wound a landmark on the road of your life. Each wound a signpost marking an end, a door slammed shut, forever closed to the person you could've been, the life you could've had if only, if only-
But then there is the first one, the very first trauma, and isn't that where everyone's story begins?" -Remy”
― Sarah Lyu, The Best Lies