Zia Rayyan > Quotes

“I want you to tell me the truth or so help me God, I will follow that yellow brick road all the way to Kansas and break your wobbly little knees!”
― Zia Rayyan, The Dead Girls Book Club

“Because you're mine," he says. "You've always been mine, and you will always be mine to do with whatever I please.”
― Zia Rayyan, Dead Girls Don't Burn

“This month's book, though, is phenomenal. Don't Let Her Stay, by Nicola Sanders.”
― Zia Rayyan, Dead Girls Don't Burn

“I made the chicken the way he likes it, and he's telling the story again. About the rescue and the kick and the smoke and how afraid the woman was before he saved her. His mother has called twice today because the news segment ran again this morning, and one of the guys at the station got his wife to bake Scott a cake shaped like a fire truck. "They want me to do an interview," he says. "A real one. Sit-down.”
― Zia Rayyan, Dead Girls Don't Burn

“Funny how something as simple as communication can fix or destroy a marriage.”
― Zia Rayyan, The Dead Girls Book Club

“The last thing I need is for Genevieve to see my hoo-ha. Some”
― Zia Rayyan, The Newlywed

“Friends aren't easy to make at this stage of life, especially when everything happens through screens now. I swear, I miss the nineties, before smartphones forced us all online.”
― Zia Rayyan, The Dead Girls Book Club

“in my pocket feel suddenly heavier.”
― Zia Rayyan, Mother, Mother

“The greater the love, the deeper the eventual wound.”
― Zia Rayyan, Mother, Mother

“vehicle”
― Zia Rayyan, The Dead Girls Book Club

“The rhythmic scraping fills the basement like a metronome counting down to my death.”
― Zia Rayyan, The Wrong House

“There's something magical about coffee shops. And I'm not talking about the aroma that makes you feel warm inside, or the soft chatter of voices, or even the comfortable chairs tucked into corners.”
― Zia Rayyan, The Dead Girls Book Club

“A... book club?" "Yeah. We meet up regularly”
― Zia Rayyan, The Dead Girls Book Club

“Here, in this strangely comfortable silence, there are hundreds of thousands of worlds waiting to be plucked off the shelves. Each spine represents a doorway, a portal to somewhere else.”
― Zia Rayyan, Mother, Mother

“His expression shifts. He looks confused. "Your book club only ever meets on Thursdays though." "I know, but today was different. A new book came out from one of our favorite authors." "Oh, yeah?" "Mmhmm, Zia Rayyan. You'd be surprised how good his books are.”
― Zia Rayyan, Dead Girls Don't Burn

“Real love is messy. It takes work and risk and sacrifice. Real love is choosing someone”
― Zia Rayyan, The Newlywed

“Depression can kill you just as dead as any shovel,”
― Zia Rayyan, The Wrong House