laura

“See, most people you meet, they’ll talk to you through fifty layers of gauze and tinting. Sometimes you know they’re lying even before they’ve started speaking. And it seems the older they get, the more brazen and desperate folks become, and they lie about things that don’t even matter.”
― Craig Silvey, Jasper Jones

“He is either a pompous ass or helplessly in love with you,’ she told me, ‘and, from the way you did not colour when you mentioned him, I should say the former. Oh, how disappointing. I had hoped he would have made you his mistress by now. How I could have entertained my tea-circle with that story. But do not worry, I shall anyway.”
― M. R. C. Kasasian

“It is the living who frighten me,’ I said. ‘There is nothing to fear from the dead.”
― M. R. C. Kasasian

“Can someone shoot me? Right now. I want to die...can you shut the fuck up?”
― Porg/Evelyn