Melody

“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

“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

“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