Lucia > Lucia's Quotes

“Rule one: No crimes. “Rule two: B-minus. “Rule three: No Facebook. “Rule four: No personality. “Rule five: Happy family.”
― Jake Burt, Greetings from Witness Protection!

“Real men wear floral when trespassing”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

“As if they think I don’t already know. I came out of the womb knowing how to do academic references.”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

“I’ve already learned my lesson here: when you catch someone lying about a murdered girl, you go ask them why.”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

“He's innocent”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

“honk if you love jesus / text and drive if you want to meet him!”
― Kara Thomas, That Weekend

“Pip had always been so curious about what was back there, the sort of wonder that dies a little more each year you grow older.”
― Holly Jackson, Good Girl, Bad Blood

“What's wrong with me? ... I might seem like the ideal student: homework always in early, every extra credit and extra curricular I can get my hands on, the good girl and the high achiever. But I realized something just now: it's not ambition, not entirely. It's fear. Because I don't know who I am when I'm not working, when I'm not focused on or totally consumed by a task. Who am I between the projects and the assignments, when there's nothing to do? I haven't found her yet and it scares me. Maybe that's why, for my senior capstone project this year, I decided to solve a murder.”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

“Our dad killed your boyfriend's older brother and kept a girl in his loft for five years. You have yourself two experts at acting normal.”
― Holly Jackson, As Good As Dead

“I stand and hold out my hand. She gives me a skeptical look, but takes it and lets me pull her to her feet. I put my other hand in the air. 'Bronwyn Rojas, I solemnly swear not to murder you today or at any point in the future. Deal?'
'You're ridiculous,' she mutters, going even redder.
'It concerns me you're avoiding a promise not to murder me.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Lying

“Things'll get worse before they get better.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Lying

“Unless one of us is lying. Which is always a possibility.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Lying

“She cocks her head at me and adds, "I don't need your commentary if you disagree, by the way."

I hold up my hands. "Wasn't going to say a word, Addy."

"When did you even start knowing my name," she deadpans.

I grin at her. "You've gotten kinda feisty since you lost all the hair. And the boyfriend.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Lying

“Sure, sure. No rush, no pressure. It’s entirely up to you, Cooper.”

People always say that but it doesn’t feel true.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Lying

“People who never get told no are so bad at hearing it.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next

“Addy gives me hope, because even though her life fell apart when Simon’s blog revealed her worst mistake, she put things back together–better than before. She’s stronger, happier, and much closer to her sister. Addy is the queen of second chances, and right now I really need the reminder that those exist.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next

“It sucks when the person who ruined your life gets to walk around like always.
As if what they did doesn’t matter.
I beg to disagree with your conclusion, though.
There’s always something you can do.—Darkestmind”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next

“It's not nerdy to care about fonts!”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next

“I'm just wondering if you're familiar with this thing called outside? It has sun and fresh air, or so I've heard."
"Pure rumor and speculation," I say. "Doesn't exist.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next

“Everybody has secrets,' she says, taking a sip of her drink. 'That's nondebatable. The only question is whether you're keeping your own, or someone else's.”
― Karen M. McManus, The Cousins

“I thought you’d look how you talk.” I’m not going to rise to the bait and ask her what she means, but she keeps going without prompting. “Like a constipated gnome.”
― Karen M. McManus, The Cousins

“Do you mean proactive like when you fucked my swim coach and knocked her up? Is that the kind of proactive I should be shooting for?”
― Karen M. McManus, The Cousins

“Family first, always.”
― Karen M. McManus, The Cousins

“Jonah,
I hear that you, Milly, and Aubrey are
doing well, and I am glad. Truly.
I bear you no ill will, and while I suppose it
is fanciful to imagine that you and your “cousins” might reciprocate that sentiment, I hope it is the case. From one imposter to another, I’d like to give you some words of advice: keep your parents far away from Anders Story’s new venture. I have a strong suspicion that it will one day, as they say, go up in flames.
Family first, always.
P.”
― Karen M. McManus, The Cousins

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous