Fia Quotes

“Planning is not my friend. Impulse is.”
― Kiersten White, Mind Games

“I’ll be fine. I’m always fine.”
― Kiersten White, Perfect Lies

“Probably you should stay out of my head. It’s not a friendly place.”
― Kiersten White, Perfect Lies

“Am I giving you a headache? I think.
“You are a headache.”
― Kiersten White, Perfect Lies

“I lie constantly. All the time. I’m nothing but one big mass of lies.”
― Kiersten White, Perfect Lies

“Cole gets up and then says, “Adam. Five texts. I can read them to you.” He pauses. “Unless they’re personal.” I roll my eyes.
“Not that it’s any of your business, but I’m pretty sure he’s desperately in love with my sister.” Cole snorts.
“He’s crazy.”
“He’d have to be, right?”
― Kiersten White, Perfect Lies

“I am the ocean. I am the yacht in the middle of the ocean. I am nothing. I am flames.”
― Kiersten White, Perfect Lies

“She looked . . . whole. With him.”
― Kiersten White, Perfect Lies

“I like her. The pixie is going to be my friend. I know it like I know I’m not going to see Mr. Keane today. I will be her friend, while plotting to either betray her if she’s untrustworthy for the company, or be betrayed by her if I slip up and she sees thoughts she shouldn’t. Best friends.”
― Kiersten White, Perfect Lies

“If I cannot trust myself to love the right person, what can I trust?”
― Kiersten White, Perfect Lies

“We have another friend in common. Sweetest girl. She’s like a sane version of you. Goes by Annie.”
― Kiersten White, Perfect Lies

“I have to trust that, or I’ll lose my mind. Well, lose it more.”
― Kiersten White, Perfect Lies

“We are both of us made of the things we have lost.”
― Kiersten White, Perfect Lies

“If we are defined by what we have lost, James and I will never really be found.”
― Kiersten White, Perfect Lies

“Her voice is as casual as a knife in the gut.”
― Kiersten White, Perfect Lies

“Then she leans over, brushes her lips against his forehead, and turns off the lamp.”
― Kiersten White, Perfect Lies

“Whatever else he is, James is my one safe place in the world.”
― Kiersten White, Perfect Lies

“My phone vibrates in my pocket and I pull it out. James. “What,” I answer, annoyed. I don’t want his voice on the phone, I want it in my ear.
“Has anyone ever told you how sexy you are when you dance?” A hand comes around my waist and I grab the wrist, twist it, then turn to find myself right up against James, and everything is right again. I lean against him, tip my face toward him.
“Oh, hi,” I say.
“Oh, ouch,” he says.”
― Kiersten White, Perfect Lies

“She rubs her arm where I grabbed her. “What do you do to the people you don’t like?”
I flash my teeth like knives in the dark. “Do you really want to know?”
She kicks my shin in a halfhearted pout. “You think different around him, you know.”
“Oh?” A cab pulls to the side and I open the door. “Clearer. Happier. But scarier.”
― Kiersten White, Perfect Lies

“It’s about Fia. Everything always is, even when she is nowhere near, even when she left all of us. We still orbit the brilliant, chaotic burning of her star.”
― Kiersten White, Perfect Lies

“You really care about my sister, don’t you?” I don’t want him to. He’s so sweet. I can’t imagine anyone loving Fia without being hurt by it.”
― Kiersten White, Perfect Lies

“Clinical, brilliantly medical-minded Adam believes in fate. A fate with Fia.”
― Kiersten White, Perfect Lies

“I’m very familiar with how Fia fights.” I smirk. “I’m so glad one of us kicked your butt.”
― Kiersten White, Perfect Lies

“Fia,” James says, and I love the way he always answers the phone with my name: a statement, not a question.”
― Kiersten White, Perfect Lies

“James is all I have. I chose James. He has to be right. Please let him be right.”
― Kiersten White, Perfect Lies

“I chose him. If I chose him, he had to be the right choice. I wouldn’t love him if it weren’t right.”
― Kiersten White, Perfect Lies

“It’s a lie, but it’s the lie he needs. I’m going to hell.”
― Kiersten White, Annie and Fia

“I can’t figure out whether the idea of seeing James or never seeing him again hurts more. I don’t want to talk to him until I can decide. We walked the path together, but he almost took me so far down it I would have fallen off the edge. Not even he could have caught me then.”
― Kiersten White, Perfect Lies

“Funny, what a freeing thing right is. And how . . . flexible it is. There is all sorts of right available to me now. Before, when I had to choose between Adam and James, I chose the hardest right path. It almost killed me. For now, I’m choosing the easiest right path.”
― Kiersten White, Perfect Lies

“Sorrow slid suddenly through her as she remembered. Sorrow for what she'd lost. Sorrow for what she had not yet found. Sorrow for the boy she'd loved, who'd become a thrall for a woman who did not love him. Sorrow for her brave, brazen friend, who'd thrown herself toward an uncertain, violent fate. Sorrow for her mirror sister-her shadow twin-who she'd thought was brightness incarnate but who'd made herself into something much darker. Sorrow for broken kingdoms and stolen Gates and memories lost and not yet found.
But then she looked up. Pulled the man she loved down for a lingering kiss. More than a kiss-a covenant.
Tomorrow they could grieve. Tomorrow they could plan. Tomorrow they could go to war. Tomorrow was more than either of them had ever hoped for.
"Good morning," she said.
A slow smile curved his lush, plush lips. "Good morning, colleen."
And she knew-this was where her story ended.
This was where her story began.”
― Lyra Selene, A Feather So Black