Top 40 M. Pierce Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “She left me alone in the riddle. I needed her because I loved her – or I loved her because I needed her. Why had the feelings turned to a maze? Now I was lost in the dark.”

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2. “I never want to learn how to say goodbye.”

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3. “There is no such thing as loneliness. There is only the idea of loneliness.”

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4. “So it was possible to love a stranger.”

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5. “The only thing he hates more than writing is not writing.”

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6. “He’s the golden boy, you see? We always forgive him.”

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7. “I’ll be buried in a Presbyterian cemetery. Did you know that? I’m tired enough to go there now.”

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8. “Whatever else life contains, it’s sad because it has to end.”

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9. “I got hung up on diction and syntax; I agonized over every word.”

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10. “I threw All the King’s Men across the living room.”

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11. “I exhaled and closed my eyes. My world slowed.”

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12. “She was the making of me.”

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13. “I met a man online; he called himself a night owl. We played a wicked game in the last light of day. We were married in October, after dark.”

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14. “Hannah.” He lifted my chin. He stroked my cheek and feathered a hand through my hair. “I have you. I’m happier than any man has a right to be.”

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15. “Love is hysteria, and summer makes it worse. Heat spreads the fever. Madness.”

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16. “You’re projecting your assholery onto me.”

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17. “I felt triumphant in my simple ability to be human.”

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18. “A stuffed animal.” I smirked. “What does she think I am, a child?”

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19. “You’re the lord of lies.”

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20. “My sleep was full of dreams.”

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21. “Why did I always do the worst things? Why did I always arrange my life so that it was on the brink of collapse?”

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22. “You can’t see the real world anymore. Everyone becomes a caricature.”

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23. “Not the sadness of death, but the silver clarity of these moments, casting a lifelong memory.”

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24. “Now it was our little joke, signifying nothing.”

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25. “When would it be my turn to truly know him? Fear answered: Never. You’ll never know him. You can’t hold on to a man like that.”

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26. “I’m steady behind you. Words I believed. Words I believed for my life.”

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27. “I understood how people fall apart. I understood how dangerous it is to let someone become your whole life, and how powerless we are to prevent it.”

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28. “He draws people in without even trying. Puts them under a spell. And then he does what he always does – lies or disappears – and you break on the rocks you were too dazed to see.”

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29. “He played like he wanted to break the piano.”

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30. “I stretched out alongside her and pulled the covers over us. I moved against her and sighed. There. I had one perfect thing in my life.”

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31. “My heart wasn’t made of paper. That was fiction. This was my life.”

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32. “Always, Matt, always speaking to me from any mouth but your own. Don’t you know that I love you? I see you under all your lies, and I always find you.”

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33. “This love is thickly plaited.”

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34. “This is the big breath before you go under.”

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35. “That was how I wanted to feel: almost out of control.”

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36. “In my dreams I ran paths walled with high hedges. Always the leaves brushing me like laughter. Always the long night.”

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37. “I thought listening to hip-hop would help distract me from the scumbagginess of my task, but after “99 problems” and “Heartless” I flung my iPod away.”

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38. “Why did I think I could keep my distance? Why would I want to? Love is relentless.”

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39. “We would kiss and say things we didn’t mean. Counterfeit intimacy.”

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40. “You have to be a great liar to write fiction, a real historical revisionist.”

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41. “Let’s not live like other people. Let’s not be like other couples.”

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42. “When people know you’re an author, they turn into weirdos. I swear.”

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43. “I could lie my way out of existence.”

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44. “I never stopped to ask why. I knew better. Desire is arcane.”

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45. “Desire is arcane.”

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46. “I sent my story to Hannah the way people pray – casting my plea into the ether. A plea to be understood. Looking for the signs.”

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47. “He told me how it felt. He told me many things. No book can hold them.”

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48. “How could I make anyone understand? He was still with me. He was the negative space.”

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49. “Clouds massing for a storm.”

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