Mary Elizabeth Summer > Quotes

“Coincidences are like unicorns.you can believe in them all you want,but that doesn't make them real”
― Mary Elizabeth Summer, Trust Me, I'm Lying

“When you can be anybody, you become nobody”
― Mary Elizabeth Summer, Trust Me, I'm Lying

“people don't generally believe themselves to be evil. Just strong. And they think that the world owes them something”
― Mary Elizabeth Summer, Trust Me, I'm Lying

“his mind's like Alcatraz. once something's in, it never gets out”
― Mary Elizabeth Summer, Trust Me, I'm Lying

“I lay the chrysanthemum across the stone, letting my fingers trail across the
cut of his name and
ignoring the tears that never seem far from my eyes these days. Even three
months later, I have
nightmares about him. Not his death, though I still have day-mares about
that. My nightmares are much
worse.
“Don’t worry,” I say. “I’ll watch the world while you sleep.”
― Mary Elizabeth Summer, Trust Me, I'm Lying

“I'll never understand how really bad guys can communicate with just a series of small signals like that. I always have to explain everything in agonizing detail to get my minions to do my bidding. Maybe I have faulty minions.”
― Mary Elizabeth Summer, Trust Me, I'm Lying

“So many ghosts, so little left of me to carry them.”
― Mary Elizabeth Summer, Trust Me, I'm Trouble

“What's the point of being alive if I have to stay in hiding.”
― Mary Elizabeth Summer, Trust Me, I'm Trouble

“God, what's in these?" Sam asks, wrinkling his nose.

"Cod, I think," I say. "Close, though."

"I'd laugh, but I'd have to breathe, and that's not something I really want to do right now.”
― Mary Elizabeth Summer, Trust Me, I'm Lying

“The world is not a weight one person must bear alone.”
― Mary Elizabeth Summer, Trust Me, I'm Trouble

“Knowing is a far cry from witnessing.”
― Mary Elizabeth Summer, Trust Me, I'm Trouble

“Your story is your best offense; your disguise is your best defense. Weapons will only get you killed.”
― Mary Elizabeth Summer, Trust Me, I'm Lying

“I guess it's true what the French say: fortune favors the innocent. Lucky for me, it also favors the moderately dishonest.”
― Mary Elizabeth Summer, Trust Me, I'm Lying

“You can love an illusion, but the illusion can't love you back.”
― Mary Elizabeth Summer, Trust Me, I'm Lying

“I guess it's true what they say -you can never go home again. You can miss it, you can visit, but you can't go back.”
― Mary Elizabeth Summer, Trust Me, I'm Lying

“If you fake connections long enough, you end up friendless and alone.”
― Mary Elizabeth Summer, Trust Me, I'm Lying

“it's a losing battle at this point,but so was the alamo”
― Mary Elizabeth Summer, Trust Me, I'm Lying

“It's a little-known fact that innocent people always look guilty.”
― Mary Elizabeth Summer, Trust Me, I'm Lying

“The truth is, conscience exists because everyone has something in their past they're not proud of.”
― Mary Elizabeth Summer, Trust Me, I'm Lying

“One of the ten con-man-dments:
Always keep your feelings close to your vest.”
― Mary Elizabeth Summer, Trust Me, I'm Lying

“Hope is a heady thing.”
― Mary Elizabeth Summer, Trust Me, I'm Trouble

“Working for Julep Dupree is like flinging yourself off a skyscraper without a parachute.”
― Mary Elizabeth Summer, Trust Me, I'm Trouble

“Trust me when I say that keeping secrets will drive you apart.”
― Mary Elizabeth Summer, Trust Me, I'm Lying

“The first lesson on Lying 101 is that it's best to begin with a lie with a scrap of truth --it lends an air of credibility to an otherwise”
― Mary Elizabeth Summer, Trust Me, I'm Lying

“I can't say I have much experience with conscience. I wasn't born with that particular cricket on my shoulder.”
― Mary Elizabeth Summer, Trust Me, I'm Lying

“It's good to have friends. Even crooked ones.”
― Mary Elizabeth Summer, Trust Me, I'm Lying

“No disguise if more foolproof than the one the mark wants to believe.”
― Mary Elizabeth Summer, Trust Me, I'm Lying

“TV isn't often fun for me, because I find it too predictable. Books are better, but my attention keeps wandering.”
― Mary Elizabeth Summer, Trust Me, I'm Trouble

“Misdirection --a grifter's greatest asset. It's even better when you can get something extra out of the misdirection.”
― Mary Elizabeth Summer, Trust Me, I'm Trouble

“Anger is almost always based on fear, and fear is the easiest emotion to manipulate.”
― Mary Elizabeth Summer, Trust Me, I'm Lying