Quotes from Caroline Kepnes

what a horrible thing your body is, the way it's doomed from day one, your fate is death no matter what you do.

But anyone with a phone knows that there are very few actual mistakes when it comes to the things we put in writing, especially after a few drinks.

We have the iPhone, the iPad, and now we have the motherfuckering iMan.

If you don't start with crazy, crazy love, the kind of love that Van Morrison sings about, then you don't have a shot to go the distance.

The sweetest thing in life is to be alone, as you were born, as you will die, soaking in the sun, knowing that you put the cactus in the right place, that you don't need someone to come along and compliment your work, that someone who did that would, in fact, just be getting in the way.

Are you fucking kidding me, you lying thieving hairy-legged beast?

Pretty bad, huh?" "No," I say. "Pretty human.

Who wants to spend their precious life hating?

say and the problem with books is that they end. They seduce you. They spread their legs to you and pull you inside. And you go deep and leave your possessions and your ties to the world at the door and you like it inside and you don't want for your possessions or your ties and then, the book evaporates. You turn the page and there is nothing

Everyone wants everything right now but you are able to wait with Such small hands.

cold city girls—their hearts are hard and pale

I will look beyond the injustice of her getting a bed in a hospital. She only gets to stay because her dad is on the board of the hospital. And it's not fair to think of all the genuinely sick people turned away. But nothing is fair.

You're a sweetheart. You see the best in people. You complement me.

and describing his male lead, as if that's what the world needs, another sociopath on TV

Also, you're not bangable, Beck. You're beautiful. There's a difference.

Death is just so final, you know? He's gone. There's no coming back. He's gone.

The atmosphere changes immediately. And there's an out of the way place where your mind stores things. You can't reach it yourself. It's like the game Operation and you are the body and someone else has to have a steady hand, they have to poke that part of you, that hot spot. When you get what you want, what you always wanted, what it means to be you is to want this thing and now you have it and there is a roar. Love.

Most people wouldn't like their friends if they got into their phones.

The wanting overwhelms me, the way it does sometimes. I hit the mute button and I feel my heartbeat quicken as I dial her number. I know I shouldn't.

See how you were talking to me before you even knew me?

all busy with his fake life in his fucking gadgets, tinderokcupidinstagramtwitterfacebookvinebullshitnarcissism incorporatedonlinepetitionsfantasyfuckingfootball.

Books don't get any more commercial and anti-chap than Stephen Fucking King (unless you want to talk about Dan Brown, but you can't compare the two because Dan Brown's not literary).

Making It in Hollywood is the most disgusting phrase in the English language. It's more disturbing than prolific serial killer and rare terminal illness.

You don't get to be anything slash anything.