Melody > Melody's Quotes

“Sometimes you go a long time having fooled yourself into thinking that you're as grown-up as you'll ever be, or that you're more mature than the rest of the world thinks you are, and you live in this state of constant self-assurance, and for a while nothing can upset you from this pedestal you've built for yourself, because you imagine yourself to be so capable. And then somebody does something that takes a golf club to your ego, and suddenly you're nine years old again, pieced together from humiliation and gawky youthfulness and childlike ideas like, Somebody please tell me what to do, nobody taught me how to handle this, God, just look at all the things I still don't understand, and you can't muster up the presence of mind to do anything but stand there, stare, silent, sorry.”
― Riley Redgate, Seven Ways We Lie

“Life is better when it’s scripted.”
― Riley Redgate, Seven Ways We Lie

“We are always moving forward--I can see it now. We are hurtling through our lives. We are never standing still.”
― Riley Redgate, Seven Ways We Lie

“...right," I say, clicking my pen. "I'd rather die than do a skit about Inferno, so there's that."

"You know it?" he asks.

"What?"

"Like, have you read it?" Matt has a quiet, husky voice. He rushes through words as if he's not allowed to be talking.

"Just excerpts, but I know the plot," I say. "Basically, Virgil gives Dante this guided tour of the nine circles of hell, and Dante wanders around judging people and fainting a ton. Which is kinda like, it seems sorta dangerous to drop unconscious in hell of all places, but I guess my experience there is limited, so.”
― Riley Redgate, Seven Ways We Lie

“You don't realize how alone you are until you let yourself out of your cage, or until someone finds a way inside.”
― Riley Redgate, Seven Ways We Lie

“Maybe he knew the whole time that trying to hold on to her was like trying to hold on to ice—a wasted effort that was only going to leave him cold.”
― Riley Redgate, Seven Ways We Lie

“Or maybe love is never healthy, and we should guard our hearts in hospitals for preemptive healing.”
― Riley Redgate, Seven Ways We Lie

“I’ve always thought everybody’s a genius at something; you just have to dig it up and polish the hell out of it.”
― Riley Redgate, Seven Ways We Lie

“Hearts fit together like hands. Not by necessity. By choice.”
― Riley Redgate, Seven Ways We Lie

“Here, I choose to love what I have. Here, I choose to love what I am now”
― Riley Redgate, Seven Ways We Lie

“It's sort of hilarious, though, how so many... kids like to think they're social outcasts, talking with people who are obviously their friends about 'never fitting in'. They have no idea. If they did, they wouldn't glamorize it. The reality of isolation is glamorous and unexciting" -Kat”
― Riley Redgate, Seven Ways We Lie