Quotes from Caroline Kepnes

Love is breathing heavily, it's clear she's never talked about this to anyone. You know when someone is opening up a so private, that there isn't a key.

I loved her and she did not love me.

Love is patient, love is kind.

one minute you are the victim of my evildoing (LOL)

We are both on a journey and we are both in love and that's all anyone can hope for in life.

that guy came here to confess." "Are you a priest?" "No, I am a church!

Well," I say and I should shut up and I want to shut up but you make me want to talk.

I own every book Stephen King has ever written." "That's great. That's something to be proud of." But did you read them, fuckface?

Love is a book. You don't skip ahead. You let the story surprise you.

in both bookstores and coffee shops, it's actually polite to leave browsers and readers alone. When you harass people and offer to help them too much, they feel like you're nudging them out the door.

It's like Michael Cunningham says in The Hours: Happiness is believing that you're gonna be happy. It's hope.

I scroll through my own stories in my phone, the ones I write when I can't sleep, when I think about her, about what the fuck happened, when I make like Alvy Singer and try to correct it all with my imagination.

I fold my hands under my head and tell the books all about you. They listen, Beck. I know it sounds crazy, but they do.

I tell you to slow down and you don't listen and I almost love what a cunt you can be because one of these days you're gonna tie me to a bed and slap me and lord over me the way you lord over all people who get in your way. You're so revved up and I want to play with you and I do.

It's the little things that make you want to kill someone, the way Milo drinks Diet Dr Pepper and ties his Jewfro in a bun and lifts his shirt to show off his stomach and wipes his glasses down even though they're not dirty. Yes, Milo got glasses, and seafoam green Topsiders, and a navy blue Polo-style shirt with a popped collar, and didn't I already kill this guy when he was schilling Home Soda and fucking Guinevere Beck?

Suspense is good for people. It makes us stronger. This is why America loves Stephen King so much; he keeps us on the edge of our seats until it hurts. He also knows that all people, whether groundskeepers at Fenway or privileged young fucks, are capable of going insane if placed under the right circumstances.

My middle school health teacher told us that you can hold eye contact for 10 seconds before scaring or seducing someone.

but the key to life is to believe in something that matters, something big and beautiful, something more profound than fame, money.

You did all those awful things, but you also fell in love with a person who can forgive you.

I bet he got picked on but what they don't tell you about bullying is that sometimes, the kid deserves it.

Captain Dave is a salt-and-pepper guy who looks older than forty-six. He doesn't have kids of his own. Some people are born to be uncles and Captain Dave is that kind of people. He's also a recovering alcoholic who's obsessed with what everyone else is drinking at all times. Life is hard for some people.

There really is no such thing as the truth but there is such thing as happiness,

every person you meet is two or three bad decisions away from being a junkie, homeless, dealing with a horrible disease, or getting a bullet to the back of the head.

Rejection is a dish best served in a paper envelope because then at least you can tear it up or burn it.