Quotes from Sara Shepard

We all have incidents in our past we're not proud of, and the goal is to learn from them and become better people.

Being sick is not an imperfection.

People didn't like thinking outside the box, apparently. Though to be fair, it was a box that had changed her family's life for the better.

Sometimes people talk behind friends' backs. That's life.

How could you be grumpy at Disney? And she really did love her fans. It wasn't their fault she felt pigeonholed as Lulu C.

It's not fun to keep secrets. But sometimes you have to do it to protect yourself. And to protect people around you.

And I'm also really, really into the algorithms. Hashtags, shout-outs, geotagging, getting tagged on bigger accounts and on the Instagram Explore page—it's all about climbing a ladder and getting yourself noticed.

Desperate times call for desperate measures.

She wanted more than anything to believe him. To believe that things didn't always have to be so desperate, so painful. To believe she didn't always have to be alone. To believe that maybe, just maybe, one day, everything would be okay.

Life isn't worth living if you're scared all the time.

Don't you know anything? When it comes to flirting, you lie! you say whatever it takes to make girls feel amazing and special.

Emily peered at Carolyn's tall glass of dark liquid. It had a familiar smell, and she burst out laughing. "Is that straight-up Dr Pepper?" Carolyn raised her glass. "Heck yeah, it is.

When we lived in Minneapolis, you weren't begging to do photo shoots with strange people. Just because we live in LA now doesn't mean you need to be different. It also doesn't mean you're suddenly famous.

Except . . . that would put her in Scarlet's bedroom. She'd instantly become a suspect. But saying nothing made her feel even worse—it was probably a huge crime to lie to a police officer, right?

He had it all planned out, down to the end.

First, there were the are-we-going-to-have-enough-money-to-pay-the-rent arguments. Then came the health problems that sidelined her father from work. Then Anita had to move in because they couldn't afford a nursing home anymore. Miranda juggled three jobs to make ends meet, barely seeing Jasmine and Ruby.

Their mouths fit perfectly together—they didn't bang teeth once.

Aerin stared down at her dress and blushed. Eveyrone kept saying how great she looked. As if she usually looked like shit. Assholes.

Happy?" Delilah spluttered. "About someone being dead? Are you serious?

I think that's why my parents can't even look at me anymore - they know they lost the wrong kid." - Jason Dilaurentis, Pretty Little Liars

It's awful she's dead, obviously. But . . . Scarlet was scary. And her fans are even scarier. Every time I saw a creepy comment from one of them about how they were going to kill Jack's Mystery Girl . . . I mean, didn't that freak you out?

Maybe the only thing that really matters is how you see yourself.

Scarlet and I hadn't . . . done things . . . in a long, long time." A blotch of red crept up Jack's neck. "So when she said that—it was for the camera. For her audience. There's no way it was true. Or, well, there's no way it was mine.

I know you saw something. Why else would you guys run? - Mr. Mercer