238 Quotes by Caroline Kepnes

This is why people like writing. You visit old friends without having to go on Facebook and see what they’re up to and deal with what idiots called FOMO. You make them into what you want them to be, the people they could be if only they were braver, smarter.

You see Elliot in Hannah scam his way to be near his sister-in-law and you call that romantic but if you knew what I went through to get into your home, that I messed up my back trying to know you, inside and out, you’d judge me for it.

Work in a bookstore and learn that most people in this world feel guilty about being who they are.

She was always changing her mind, imagining all the roads not taken. She was spongy, and sponges can’t make big life decisions.

It’s a sad and grotesque thing that you and your friends have become so accustomed to lies that the truth has to be prefaced because it’s inherently surprising, a startling departure from the lies that comprise your lives.

Thank you so much.” “Every time.” “I like that. Every time. Instead of ‘anytime.’ It’s pointed.

You like words and I know words.

When I’m nervous, I get nasty. It’s a problem.

You know what, kid? You need to get over yourself. You work in a bookstore. You don’t make the books. You don’t write the books and if you were any good at reading the books, you probably wouldn’t work in a bookstore. So wipe that judgmental look off your face and tell me to have a nice day.