Top 100 Riley Sager Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Boys can break your heart and betray you, but not in the same stinging way girls can.”

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52. “People don’t lie unless they’re hiding something.”

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53. “But fiction can be an escape, which is why we need idealized versions of New York City. It balances out the crowded, gritty, heartbreaking real thing.”

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54. “Hot girls read.”

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55. “There’s something energizing about getting what you want, even if that something is shame.”

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56. “Think. That’s what will get me out of this mess. Not panicking. Panic only breeds more panic.”

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57. “Maybe I’m not looking for trouble. Maybe I am the trouble.”

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58. “Women need to do that, you know. Look out for each other. There’s a special place in hell for those who don’t.”

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59. “I’m sure someone would say it’s my own damn fault. That it was my responsibility to build an emergency fund. At least three months’ salary, the experts say. I would love to backhand whoever came up with that number. They clearly never had a job with take-home pay that barely covers rent, food, and utilities. Because here’s the thing about being poor-most people don’t understand it unless they’ve been there themselves.”

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60. “They, too, had a choice – to continue fighting a battle they had no chance of winning or to willingly wrap themselves in the sweet embrace of nothingness.”

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61. “My future is quite literally a blank canvas, waiting for me to fill it.”

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62. “Because that’s how I feel. Like I’m perched on the edge of a great chasm, waiting for the slightest breeze to shove me screaming into it.”

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63. “The only differences here are that Boone isn’t a local, my heart’s too shattered to melt, and there’s no such thing as happily ever after. There’s only happy for a short period of time before everything falls apart.”

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64. “I know, that’s what all deaths feel like. The person is there and then they’re not and you have to adjust to life without them.”

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65. “I’m not an alcoholic. I can quit at any time. I just don’t want to.”

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66. “What none of them understand is that the point of the game isn’t to fool others with a lie. The goal is to trick them by telling the truth.”

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67. “Although their eventual fate remains a mystery, I’m certain that what happened to those girls is all my fault.”

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68. “I’m the moth that got careless with the flame. Now I’m engulfed.”

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69. “Even though a mere minute in her company has left me exhausted, I follow.”

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70. “Yesterday, Mrs. Baker told me Hope’s End was a place where young women are given the benefit of the doubt. That’s not true everywhere. It’s true hardly anywhere.”

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71. “Because here’s the thing about details – they can also be a distraction. Add too many and it obscures the brutal truth about a situation. They become the gaudy necklace that hides the tracheotomy scar.”

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72. “That’s the tricky thing about movies. They can be wonderful and beautiful and amazing. But they’re not like life, which is wonderful, beautiful, and amazing in a different way.”

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73. “What I do recall is colored by what’s in the Book. Instead of memories, I have excerpts. It’s like looking at a photograph of a photograph. The framing is off. The colors are dulled. The image is slightly dark.”

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74. “There’s safety in numbers, yes, but also uncertainty.”

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75. “I long for the quiet camaraderie only a library can provide.”

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76. “Men like him gobbled up all they could, leaving nothing for everyone else.”

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77. “I’m starting to think I don’t belong anywhere. That it’s my lot in life to occupy limbo al my own.”

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78. “Why bother if you’re not going to give it your all?”

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79. “That by reading, whole worlds could be explored without ever leaving home. My father, on the other hand, warned me to get used to it. “It’s our lot in life, Kit-Kat,” he told me. “People like us toil. The rich bastards running everything make sure of that.”

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80. “But somehow we screamed louder, ran faster, fought harder. We survived.”

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81. “Movies are like life,” she finally says. “Only better.”

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82. “Life has failed her time and time again. The movies have never let her down.”

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83. “You’re never alone when there’s a book,′ she used to say. ‘Never ever.”

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84. “I take a deep breath, trying to collect my thoughts. But they’re an unruly, unreliable bunch. My skull feels like a snow globe recently shaken, swirling with important bits of information that have yet to land. And I can’t grasp.”

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85. “You strike me as a gentle soul,” she says. I’ve never thought of myself as gentle. Fragile is more like it. Prone to bruising.”

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86. “I’m going to be a police detective like my uncle.” she says. “Why write about crimes when you can solve them in real life?”

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87. “By the front door is a table normally used for mail and car keys. On it sits a single sheet of paper bearing six typed lines. Holding my breath, I pick it up and begin to read. At sixty-nine, Virginia Hope Wrote her nurse this little note Thank you, dear, for saving me Now it’s time to let you be I take my leave, walking tall Knowing that I fooled them all.”

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88. “Pain equals clarity. Clarity equals survival.”

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89. “That girl is gone now, replaced by someone wiser and harder but no less hopeful.”

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90. “I’m a blogger?” It comes out sounding like a question. Like I have no clue what I am.”

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91. “I want Sam to witness firsthand the formula behind baking and to experience its safety; I want her to see how it’s helped me become more than just a girl screaming through the woods away from Pine Cottage.”

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92. “But that’s not what you’re most curious about, is it? You want to know if I’m as evil as everyone says I am. The answer is no. And yes.”

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93. “I go to my father’s desk, getting uncomfortable flashbacks to when Allie and I emptied my father’s apartment a week after his death. It was rough. The entire place smelled like him – a soothing combo of wool, aftershave and old books. Every item dropped into a cardboard box felt as though a part of his existence was being locked away where no one could see it. Every tattered cardigan. Each worn-edged book. I was erasing my father piece by piece, and it gutted me.”

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94. “It must have happened right after I left for work. She either tripped or lost her balance. A freak accident.”

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95. “Even a prison becomes comforting if it’s the only thing you know.”

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96. “I try to pretend I’m not as lonely as I feel.”

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97. “If I feel sadness, it’s the same simmering grief I always experience. The kind of pain I long ago learned to love with.”

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98. “God, she must think I’m insane. I’d think the same thing if I didn’t know the reasons behind my recklessness.”

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99. “Ladies shouldn’t play pool,” she once told me. “Lucky for me I’m not a lady,” I replied.”

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100. “She’s fascinating in the same way tornadoes are fascinating. You want to see how much they’re going to spin.”

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