Top 160 Sara Shepard Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “My enemies are everywhere. And sometimes, those we least suspect turn out to be our biggest threats.”

— Sara Shepard

52. “Before you enbark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”

— Sara Shepard

53. “I find coming up with a title the hardest part of writing a novel.”

— Sara Shepard

54. “People might look great on the outside but they all have something that they’re dealing with.”

— Sara Shepard

55. “I understood we used to be close. But they were like books i’d read two summer ago; I knew I’d liked them, but I couldn’t tell you now what they’d been about.”

— Sara Shepard

56. “There are some remedies worse than disease.”

— Sara Shepard

57. “Last but not least, she put on a pair of black-framed reading glasses she’d found on Mr. Mercer’s bedside table. If it worked for Clark Kent, it’d work for her.”

— Sara Shepard

58. “Sometimes, I don’t notice I’m singing.”

— Sara Shepard

59. “Before Ali, the girls had felt like pleated, high-waisted mom jeans – awkward and noticeable for all the wrong reasons – but then Ali made them feel like the most perfect-fitting Stella McCartneys that no one could afford.”

— Sara Shepard

60. “Sometimes, a family is like an ear of summer corn: It might look perfect on the outside, but when you peel the husk away. every kernel is rotten.”

— Sara Shepard

61. “Good-bye, Nisha, I added my farewell to my sister’s. I promise, whoever did this to us is going to pay.”

— Sara Shepard

62. “Jenna can’t hear us; she’s blind... You know what I mean.”

— Sara Shepard

63. “At least she had a clear picture of what the Lying Game was now: Girl Scouts for psychopaths.”

— Sara Shepard

64. “Iadul sunt ceilalti.”

— Sara Shepard

65. “But Mike was like a Bjork song-all happy and giddy and fun on the surface, but bubbling with turmoil and pain underneath.”

— Sara Shepard

66. “Its more fun to think of the future than dwell on the past.”

— Sara Shepard

67. “It was funny how love could make people believe everything.”

— Sara Shepard

68. “It’s like you’re reading a book and every time someone’s tearing the pages.”

— Sara Shepard

69. “That was the thing about guys, though: Sometimes, they had the emotional depth of a flea.”

— Sara Shepard

70. “La memoria es una cosa caprichosa. Y a veces, estamos condenados a repetir las cosas que hemos olvidado.”

— Sara Shepard

71. “Sean was starting to remind her of the croque-monsieur she once ordered in Nice. At first glance, it looked like a plain, cookie-cutter grilled cheese, nothing special. But when she bit into it, the cheese was Brie and there were chopped-up portabello mushrooms hidden underneath. There was a lot more to it than it had appeared. Sean.”

— Sara Shepard

72. “I know what I know,” she said softly. “But I let go of the fury I had for that boy a long time ago. If I didn’t, it would consume me. Like perhaps it’s consuming you.”

— Sara Shepard

73. “His eyes were filled with tears, but his smile was encouraging. ‘I hope you find what you’re looking for.”

— Sara Shepard

74. “Spencer.” Mrs. Hastings leaned across the restaurant table. “Don’t touch the bread. It’s rude to start eating before everyone is seated.”

— Sara Shepard

75. “Aria Crosses Over.”

— Sara Shepard

76. “I know what it feels like to watch something happen and wish, going forward, that you could do something, anything, to change at least your world, the people around you, to keeo everything close to you safe.”

— Sara Shepard

77. “Mona played with dolls, I play with body parts. Game on bitches. -A.”

— Sara Shepard

78. “It was like they were strangers. Maybe they were, again.”

— Sara Shepard

79. “I stared back, wishing I could download my memory onto a DVD and play it for Officer Quinlan. But I couldn’t. All I could do was watch and hope my sister didn’t end up like me.”

— Sara Shepard

80. “German reminded her of an old man hacking up phlegm.”

— Sara Shepard

81. “She hated their new nickname. It made them sound like deranged Barbie dolls.”

— Sara Shepard

82. “They felt kind of like dolls, with Ali arranging their every move.”

— Sara Shepard

83. “And sometimes you just don’t know what’s going on inside of people. People always seem so perfect on the surface. But it’s not always the case. Everyone hides things.”

— Sara Shepard

84. “If he’s giving you up, maybe he isn’t worth it.”

— Sara Shepard

85. “Memory was a tricky thing, but reality was even trickier. Once you made up your mind about something, it was hard to comprehend that the truth could be something else.”

— Sara Shepard

86. “Ew, no!? Laurel said, brushing past him. Dracula covered half his face with his cape, shunned vampire-style, and scooted away to his perch behind the counter.”

— Sara Shepard

87. “You have to do good things for people you care about.”

— Sara Shepard

88. “Whatever baggage you have, use it. Conquer it. Don’t let it stop you.”

— Sara Shepard

89. “I’ve always hated biology who cares how a cell divides, it just does.”

— Sara Shepard

90. “His controlled composure was making Maddox feel edgy. He could be one of those people who seemed perfectly calm but then randomly snapped.”

— Sara Shepard

91. “Aria was younger and afraid to go to sleep because she thought a giant eel lived in her closet.”

— Sara Shepard

92. “It’s like when someone says, ‘How are you?’ do you say, ‘Well, mt head hurts and I’m lonely and depressed and I’m worried about everything and the world is collapsing and full of evil? Or do you say, I’m fine?”

— Sara Shepard

93. “We don’t always love our friends every minute.”

— Sara Shepard

94. “This doesn’t mean you’re damaged. It just means your mind has adapted to feelings of being unsafe. It’s a coping mechanism.”

— Sara Shepard

95. “How could any of us truly appreciate our lives if we had nothing else to compare them to?”

— Sara Shepard

96. “I do a lot of brainstorming with my editors.”

— Sara Shepard

97. “And just like that every horrible thought receded into the background. Maybe, just maybe, she wasn’t damaged goods after all. Maybe she was okay – someone worth caring for. Someone worth loving, even.”

— Sara Shepard

98. “Truth is stranger than fiction, after all.”

— Sara Shepard

99. “That’s immortality my darlings.”

— Sara Shepard

100. “I told my parents she’s a low-income student from inner-city Philadelphia who’s going through some tough times at home right now, and I’m doing this as an outreach program through Rosewood Day. Amazingly, they bought it.”

— Sara Shepard