Top 120 Riley Sager Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “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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102. “But I knew that looks could be deceiving. And that even prisons could appear lovely if lit the right way.”

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103. “Never show fear, Kit-Kat,” he whispered. “They can tell if you’re scared – and that’s when they sting.”

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104. “Hot girls read.”

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105. “At seventeen, Lenora Hope I wonder if I should be scared. Hung her sister with a rope Because I am. Stabbed her father with a knife Even though there’s no reason to be scared. Took her mother’s happy life.”

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

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

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108. “Each time, I’m struck by how strange it is to see someone I think of as forever young looking thoroughly middle-aged. It’s the same jarring feeling I sometimes get when I look in the mirror.”

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109. “Think about the people who come here,” Nick says. “Writers and artists, scientists and captains of industry. Think of all they give to the world. Now think of yourself, Jules. What are you? What do you offer? Nothing.”

— Riley Sager

110. “We’re so radiant we’ve become invisible.”

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111. “Several scenarios pop into my head, starting with the worst, because that’s my default mode.”

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112. “You can’t change what’s happened. The only thing you can control is how you deal with it.”

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113. “The elevator resembles a birdcage. The tall, ornate kind – all thin bars and gilded exterior. I even think of birds as I step inside. Exotic and bright and lush. Everything I’m not.”

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114. “They’ve never waited for their paycheck to be directly deposited at the stroke of midnight because their wallet is empty and their credit cards are maxed and they desperately need to pay for gas. And food. And a prescription that’s gone unfilled for an entire week.”

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115. “In my experience, men who say they want the truth end up wishing they had settled for the lie.”

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

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

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

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119. “Memories, though, are a different matter. They’re filled with ghosts.”

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120. “Whenever you find the ball in your yard, it means you need to come over and find me.”

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121. “Here, we give young women accused of terrible deeds the benefit of the doubt.”

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122. “Too much of childhood is spent being lied to by adults because they think it’ll spare your feelings.”

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123. “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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124. “It was easier to believe a nameless, faceless bogeyman took Billy than consider the likelihood that it was someone from Hemlock Circle.”

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125. “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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126. “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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127. “Murder is a stranger beast than suicide, although the end result of both is the same. Even the words themselves differ. “Suicide” hisses like a snake – a sickness of the mind and soul. “Murder,” though, makes me think of sludge, dark and thick and filled with pain.”

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

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130. “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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131. “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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132. “There’s something energizing about getting what you want, even if that something is shame.”

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133. “Hakuna matata, dude.”

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