We Were Liars Events Quotes

Welcome to the beautiful Sinclair family.No one is a criminal.No one is an addict.No one is a failure. (1.1-4)

That June, summer fifteen, Dad announced he was leaving and departed two days later. He told my mother he wasn't a Sinclair, and couldn't try to be one, any longer. (2.16)

Penny, Carrie, and Bess are the daughters of Tipper and Harris Sinclair. Harris came into his money at twenty-one after Harvard and grew the fortune doing business I never bothered to understand. (...

The family calls us four the Liars, and probably we deserve it. We are all nearly the same age, and we all have birthdays in the fall. Most years on the island, we've been trouble. (4.2)

I took the pen out of his hand—he always read with a pen—and wrote Gat on the back of his left, and Cadence on the back of his right. (5.39)

It was love, and it hit me so hard I leaned against the screen door that still stood between us, just to stay vertical. I wanted to touch him like he was a bunny, a kitten, something so special and...

"We have a warped view of humanity on Beechwood," Gat said. "I don't think you see that." (7.27)

Maybe he loved Raquel. Those photos on his phone. That dried beach rose in an envelope. (8.29)

I felt the love rush from me to Gat and from Gat to me.We were warm and shivering,and young and ancient,and alive.I was thinking, It's true. We already love each other.We already do. (9.21-26)

I understood, and I managed to erase Granny Tipper from conversation, the same way I had erased my father. Not happily, but thoroughly. (11.14)

I must have had my face in the water and then hit my head on one of these rocks.Like I said, I don't know.I remember only this: I plunged down into this ocean,down to rocky rocky bottom, andI could...

In Europe […] I lay prone on the bathroom floors of several museums, feeling the cold tile underneath my cheek as my brain liquefied and seeped out my ear, bubbling. Migraines left my blood sprea...

Welcome, once again, to the beautiful Sinclair family.We believe in outdoor exercise. We believe that time heals.We believe, although we will not say so explicitly, in prescription drugs and the co...

As he grew old, he began to wonder which should inherit the kingdom, since none had married and he had no heir. The king decided to ask his daughters to demonstrate their love for him. (16.13)

Antiques and Oriental rugs tell people that my mother may be a dog breeder who dropped out of Bryn Mawr, but she's got power—because she's got money. (17.9)

I made her tell me one last time, and I wrote down her answers so I could look back at them when I wanted to. That's why I can tell you about the night-swimming accident, the rocks, the hypothermia...

I want to know why Gat disappeared. I don't know why he wasn't with me, swimming. I don't know why I went to the tiny beach alone. Why I swam in my underwear and left no clothes on the sand. (19.5)

"But Bonnie's the only one who believes me about Cuddledown," he says. "And I wanted to call you. Only not if you're a drug addict because drug addicts don't know what's going on." (22.20)

Clairmont sits at the highest point, with water views in three directions. I crane my neck to look for its friendly turret—but it isn't there…instead of the house where Granddad spent every sum...

"Bonnie's obsessed with dead things. She's reading books about them all the time and then she can't sleep. It's annoying when you share a room." (24.26)

"I have a boyfriend named Drake Loggerhead," says Mirren. "He's going to Pomona like I am. We have had sexual intercourse quite a number of times, but always with protection. He brings me yellow ro...

I don't know what is between us. I really don't. He is such an ass. (26.28)

I am simply happy, here with Gat's body beneath my hands. The sound of the waves and his breath in my ear. Glad that he wants to be near me. (32.19)

Granddad is more like Mummy than like me. He's erased his old life by spending money on a replacement one. (33.16)

We take down Bess's landscape watercolors and roll up her rugs. We pillage the littles' bedrooms for fun objects. When we are done, the great room is decorated with piggy banks and patchwork quilts...

We all knew Aunt Bess wanted the Boston house. All the aunts wanted the Boston house. It was a four-million-dollar house, and they grew up in it. But Bess was the only one who lived nearby, and the...

"You feel like you know me, Cady, but you only know the me who comes here," he says. "It's—it's just not the whole picture. You don't know my bedroom with the window onto the airshaft, my mom's c...

If you want to live where people are not afraid of mice, you must give up living in palaces. (40.8)

Now, at the breakfast table, watching him eat my toast, "Don't take no for an answer" seemed like the attitude of a privileged guy who didn't care who got hurt, so long as his wife had the cute sta...

"If I die," I say as we look at the view, "I mean, when I die, throw my ashes in the water of the tiny beach. Then when you miss me, you can climb up here, look down, and think how awesome I was."...

I often think of putting my arms around him or running my fingers along his lips. When I let my thoughts go there…the sharp pain of unrequited love invites the migraine in. (46.12)

"You have no idea what it feels like to have headaches like this. No idea. It hurts […] It makes it hard to be alive, some days. A lot of times I wish I were dead, I truly do, just to make the pa...

"But the thing that makes me really messed up is the contradiction: when I'm not hating myself, I feel righteous and victimized. Like the world is so unfair." (52.23)

Sometimes I wonder if reality splits […] Everyone has duplicates of themselves in these other worlds. Different selves with different lives, different luck. (54.65)

We set this fire and it is burning down Clairmont.Burning down the palace, the palace of the king who had three beautiful daughters. (58.10-11)

"Granddad did nothing but fuel them […] Granddad was drunk on his own power and my mother wanted me to make a play for the money." (59.25)

When we got to Beechwood in late June, Bess had already inventoried Gran's Boston possessions and now began with those in Clairmont. The aunts had copies on their tablets and pulled them up regular...

He was making a threat. (61.33-34)

But I was meant to help Mummy keep the house by telling my grandfather that he was the big man, that he was the cause of all our happiness, and by reminding him that I was the future of the family....

Then he said Bess was a grasping wench and he had no intention of giving her my house. But later, Mirren told me he'd promised Windemere to Bess. (63.21)

"It's like, if he called me Gat, he'd really be saying, How was your school year, Indian boy whose Indian uncle lives in sin with my pure white daughter? Indian boy I caught kissing my precious Cad...

"You have the only beachfront house, Bess, and you have all Dad's approval and devotion. I'd think that would be enough for you. Lord knows it's impossible for the rest of us to get." (66.26)

"[…] make sure Granddad knows. Tell him it's nothing and tell him it never was anything. Tell him he shouldn't worry about that boy again and then talk to him about Harvard and tennis team and th...

They would repent of their deeds.And after that, learn to love one another again.Open their souls. Open their veins. Wipe off their smiles.Be a family. Stay a family. (68.12-15)

"Carrie gets the pearls, Bess gets the Boston house, Bess gets Windemere…I'll be left alone with nothing, nothing, even though Cady's supposed to be the one. The first, you always said." (69.3)

"Clairmont seemed like the seat of the patriarchy […] We figured if the house was gone, and the paperwork and data inside it gone, and all the objects they fought about gone, the power would be g...

What if we could stop beingdifferent colors, different backgrounds, and just be in loveWhat if we could force everyone to change? (71.33-35)

My full name is Cadence Sinclair Eastman, and contrary to the expectations of the beautiful family in which I was raised, I am an arsonist.A visionary, a heroine, a rebel.The kind of person who cha...

It was a horrible thing to do. Maybe. But it was something. It wasn't sitting by, complaining. I am a more powerful person than my mother will ever know. I have trespassed against her and helped he...

I had killed those dogs. It was I who lived with dogs, I who knew where Prince Philip and Fatima slept. The rest of the Liars didn't think about the goldens—not very much, anyway. Not like I did....

All my bravado from this morning,the power,the perfect crime,taking down the patriarchy,the way we Liars saved the summer idyll and made it better,the way we kept our family together by destroying...

She confused being sick with being brave, and suffered agonies while imagining she merited praise for it. (79.21)

Cadence Sinclair Eastman had no memory of the events surrounding the fire, no memory of it ever happening. Her burns healed quickly but she exhibited selective amnesia regarding the events of the p...

The house was cold. It felt like something that deserved to be destroyed. (81.10)

I wanted so much for us: a life free of constriction and prejudice. A life free to love and be loved.And here, I have killed them. (82.12-13)