Keren David > Quotes

“Maybe there’s no such thing as real truth, just lots and lots of different ways of explaining the same thing.”
― Keren David, When I Was Joe

“A world where everyone tells lies all the time is like a world where everyone carries a knife. You think it’s going to help you, but it only makes things worse.”
― Keren David, Almost True

“Like, like, like. My confidence grew with each click.”
― Keren David, This Is Not a Love Story

“I knew I could never clean away this memory. We were stained and spoiled forever.”
― Keren David, Salvage

“Archie, I am so sorry to have hit you with a hardback book,’ I say. ‘I will use a paperback next time.”
― Keren David, Almost True

“One of those fights that we'd been having a lot round about then. I thought they were all her fault. She seemed to think they were all mine.”
― Keren David, Lia's Guide to Winning the Lottery

“when someone dumps you, it's heartbreaking and insulting and horrible, sure, but being the one who breaks up is almost as bad.”
― Keren David, This Is Not a Love Story

“And that's how we got arrested at the Stinkerlaas parade'.”
― Keren David, This Is Not a Love Story

“If love means thinking about someone all the time and feeling special whenever you're with them, if it means little buzzes of electricity making you shiver when you kiss, if it meant listening to every word they say with hyper-awareness so you can replay the whole conversation when you're on your own, then I was in love. If love means caring about someone so much that it makes you want to cry when they're not smiling, feeling sick with excitement in the morning becauses because you're going to see them at college, feeling like half a person when you're not together, then I was completely and absolutely and utterly in love with Theo.”
― Keren David, This Is Not a Love Story

“Then she dropped the shepherd's pie with an enormous bang, globs of mince and mashed potato exploded everywhere, and our family was over, just like that.”
― Keren David, Salvage

“- Cass, tu veux bien qu'on réessaie?
Il va sans dire que la plupart des filles se seraient contentées de sourire en pouffant et seraient tombées dans ses bras, et d'ailleurs, je ne demandais pas mieux. Mais il fallait d'abord que je sois sûre de ce dans quoi je m'embarquais.
- Quand tu dis "réessayer", tu sous-entends quoi, au juste?
Will a grimacé en répliquant:
- Tu as déjà envisagé de te lancer dans des études de droit?”
― Keren David, Salvage

“It's sort of weird that I'm going to be invited to your ex-girlfriend's mum's wedding especially when it's to your ex-boyfriend's dad.”
― Keren David, This Is Not a Love Story