Quotes from Caroline Kepnes

In the cage, you feel loved, not trapped. Just like me.

I pick up the list of Benji's five favorite books because we've got work to do: "Gravity's Rainbow" by Thomas Pynchon. He's a pretentious fuck and a liar. "Underworld" by Don DeLillo. He's a snob. "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac. He's a spoiled passport-carrying fuck stunted in eighth grade. "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men" by David Foster Wallace. Enough already. "The Red Badge of Courage" by Stephen Crane. He's got Mayflowers in his blood.

I like that. Every time. Instead of 'anytime.' It's pointed." "Well, I mean it.

Yeah, I don't have a Yale degree but my bullshit detector is excellent. Top drawer, even.

But I can't stand the way you make me feel so good, like, better than I ever felt, and then you tear it all away, like deep down, you don't want me to be happy.

He's been to rehab, which is a travesty; you can tell by his smug face that he's not capable of genuine addiction.

You are not easily rescued

She is not burdened with a sensitive heart. Hers just beats.

We don't come from places. We come from time. From traumatic moments that cannot be undone.

Some good shit happens fast (a bestselling book), and some good shit happens slow (love).

you can love some all you want, but you can't go into their past and become a part of their formative years.

So I Lyfted to Home Depot, where I bought random stuff, rope and duct tape, plastic bags, cable ties, and plastic gloves. The girl at the register winked and said she's also a big fan of Fifty Shades and this is what has become of our society. Fucking and killing are the same damn thing. Now

You never sounded farther away from me and I will take that balloon and stab the fuck out of and at the same time I will take that balloon and tie it around Peach's neck because WHO THE FUCK CAN CUNT OUT OVER A BALLOON?

You're so clean that you're dirty.

What a shame to be so angered by what you don't have that you treat what you do have like it's nothing.

You are a monster, deathly, solipsistic to the bone and you're blasphemous because all you want is You

Who can sleep with you in the world?

I wish it were socially acceptable to brandish a knife.

You like words and I know words

In a relationship] someone's gotta be the iceberg and someone's gotta be the sun.

Life isn't always ideal, not for most people.

And what did you say?" "I said I think that all children do better with happy parents than married parents.

It wasn't my fault that Candace followed me down to the water's edge and it wasn't my fault that I picked her up and held her down in the water and watched her pass on to the great beyond. She wanted to be there, or she wouldn't have gone down there with me. She knew she was killing me and she knew that I was not the type to go down without a fight.

And really, when you grow up, and get over yourself, when you fuck narcissism and leave the hashtags at the door, you see what really matters in life.