Chelsea Ichaso > Quotes

“But here we are, bonded by our mistakes. Bonded by something dark.”
― Chelsea Ichaso, Dead Girls Can't Tell Secrets

“I stand helpless, a familiar desire seeping into my veins. That desire to watch something burn.”
― Chelsea Ichaso, Little Creeping Things

“... you never really know people the way you think you do.”
― Chelsea Ichaso, Dead Girls Can't Tell Secrets

“His charm makes him all the more diabolical. Like a handsome, hazel-eyed anti-Christ.”
― Chelsea Ichaso, We Were Warned

“Cold sweat breaks out over my forehead. I zero in on the photo and the caption beneath it. Just one line that makes my skin prickle and my heart lunge.

"I'm so glad we're in this together.”
― Chelsea Ichaso, Little Creeping Things

“No coffee?

Sorry, the mountain-top Starbucks is fresh out.”
― Chelsea Ichaso, Dead Girls Can't Tell Secrets

“I've spent the past ten years trying to erase this image. Fire Girl.

Trying to convince everyone - trying to convince myself - I'm not a killer.”
― Chelsea Ichaso, Little Creeping Things

“You're the meanest." Sitting up he looks at me. "And you're alive.”
― Chelsea Ichaso, The Summer She Went Missing

“She’s awake.”
― Chelsea Ichaso, Dead Girls Can't Tell Secrets

“He made a shrine to his ex. Cute.”
― Chelsea Ichaso, The Summer She Went Missing

“I wasn't a sister. I wasn't even a friend. I was the darkness.”
― Chelsea Ichaso, Dead Girls Can't Tell Secrets

“Keep your eyes on anything you don't want stolen.”
― Chelsea Ichaso, Dead Girls Can't Tell Secrets

“Stay the hell away from that guy.”
― Chelsea Ichaso, The Summer She Went Missing: A Page Turning Beach Read

“An innocent enough lie. Harmless, really , compared to some of the ones I’ve told over the years.”
― Chelsea Ichaso, So I Lied

“the last text I’d sent her. I couldn’t let them realize that I may have been responsible for what had happened.”
― Chelsea Ichaso, Dead Girls Can't Tell Secrets

“But I guess we all lose our voice sometimes. We all let the lie get to us—the one that says we never had a voice in the first place. That we’ll never be heard above the voices that run our towns, our world: the loud, the powerful, the just plain evil.”
― Chelsea Ichaso, The Summer She Went Missing: A Page Turning Beach Read

“And you two broke up?

That would've required us to be together in the first place.”
― Chelsea Ichaso, Dead Girls Can't Tell Secrets

“I know the redhead as Miss Humsalot. She's some sort of magical prodigy who sings to herself in the halls like we're all just side characters in her Disney movie.”
― Chelsea Ichaso, Dead Girls Can't Tell Secrets

“Nice necklace,” he says, indicating the hand-painted charm strung from my neck.”
― Chelsea Ichaso, Dead Girls Can't Tell Secrets

“damn”
― Chelsea Ichaso, Dead Girls Can't Tell Secrets

“This is the kind of deception that can suck you dry.”
― Chelsea Ichaso, So I Lied

“If only I could’ve been grateful for the bullet I’d dodged. Instead, I continued to pine over him”
― Chelsea Ichaso, So I Lied

“His words carve into me like a knife.”
― Chelsea Ichaso, The Summer She Went Missing: A Page Turning Beach Read

“I love you," he interrupts, startlingly serious now. I want to throw my hands over his mouth to keep him from talking. "But," he continues, "I love being your friend, I think I might've confused that with being in love with you. And I think that... for us, just friends is pretty great." He glances thoughtfully upward. "Perfect even.”
― Chelsea Ichaso, Beware the Abbott Boys

“He scratches at his jawline. “You’re not afraid of bears?” “Of course not. We have chains, remember?” He laughs, but it falters a moment later as his gaze travels to something behind me.”
― Chelsea Ichaso, Dead Girls Can't Tell Secrets

“Appaloosa”
― Chelsea Ichaso, The Summer She Went Missing: A Page Turning Beach Read

“I never saw Hannah that way.” His gaze is on the purple wildflowers painting the bank. “It was always you.”
― Chelsea Ichaso, The Summer She Went Missing: A Page Turning Beach Read

“the bitterness—that resentment I’ve”
― Chelsea Ichaso, So I Lied

“Tyler is watching me like I'm his favorite Netflix show.”
― Chelsea Ichaso, Dead Girls Can't Tell Secrets

“I let those little creeping things embed themselves inside my brain, inside my very core, until they ate away at who I was.”
― Chelsea Ichaso, Little Creeping Things