Sara Shepard famous quotes

Always sleep with one eye open. Never take anything for granted. Your best friends might just be your enemies.
-- Sara Shepard

#Fake Friends #Fake People #Sleep

No one believes a liar. Even when she's telling the truth.
-- Sara Shepard

#Lying #Liars #Believe

The sweetest smiles hold the darkest secrets...
-- Sara Shepard

#Love #Secret #Darkest Secrets

The best secrets are the most twisted
-- Sara Shepard

#Secret #Twisted

But Mike was like a Bjork song-all happy and giddy and fun on the surface, but bubbling with turmoil and pain underneath.
-- Sara Shepard

#Song #Pain #Fun

Its more fun to think of the future than dwell on the past.
-- Sara Shepard

#Fun #Thinking #Past

Or perhaps all those things you missed upon first glance mean much more than you could ever guess.
-- Sara Shepard

#Mean #Firsts #Glances

Sometimes, a family is like an ear of summer corn: It might look perfect on the outside, but when you peel the husk away. every kernel is rotten.
-- Sara Shepard

#Summer #Perfect #Ears

Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it
-- Sara Shepard

#Past #Forget The Past #Forget

Without Mona, Hanna felt like a great outfit without matching accessories, a screw-driver that was all orange juice and no vodka, and an iPod without headphones. She just felt wrong.
-- Sara Shepard

#Ipods #Orange #Accessories

Every pretty girl is a heartbreaker
-- Sara Shepard

#Girl #Pretty Girl #Heartbreaker

My enemies are everywhere. And sometimes, those we least suspect turn out to be our biggest threats.
-- Sara Shepard

#Enemy #Sometimes #Threat

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is the quintessential dysfunctional family.
-- Sara Shepard

#Wall #Glasses #Castles

Sometimes I feel kind of wrong here. I used to be normal, but now... I don't know. I feel like I should be one way, but I'm not." Toby stared at her. "I hear that." He sighed. "There are all these perfect people here. And... it's like, if you're not one of the,. then you're messed up. But I think, inside, the flawless-looking people are just as messed up as we are.
-- Sara Shepard

#Thinking #Perfect #People

Ezra clapped his hands. "all right," he said. "In addition to the books we're reading as a class, I want to do an extra side project on unreliable narrators." Devon Arliss raised her hand. "what does that mean?" Ezra strode around the room. "well, the narrator tells us the story in the book, right? But what if... the narrator isn't telling us the truth? Maybe he's telling us his skewed version of the story to get you on his side. Or to scare you. Or maybe he's crazy!
-- Sara Shepard

#Crazy #Book #Reading

We killed an innocent girl
-- Sara Shepard

#Girl #Innocent

Toby twisted around. "Boo." Emily screamed.
-- Sara Shepard

#Toby #Twisted

You know what they say about hope. It breeds eternal misery!
-- Sara Shepard

#Misery

Friends share secrets. That's what keeps us close.
-- Sara Shepard

#Secret #Share

Be Yourself Not What The World Wants You To Be
-- Sara Shepard

#Being Yourself #Want #World

,the rest of the girls pretended not to notice. That's just what best friends do.
-- Sara Shepard

#Girl

Penn station", Ali said to the driver, slamming the door. Then she turned back to Hanna. "We ditch the bitches", she said. "And then we take them down".
-- Sara Shepard

#Doors #Said #Drivers

People might look great on the outside but they all have something that they're dealing with.
-- Sara Shepard

#People #Might #Looks

Life is hard already. Why make it harder?
-- Sara Shepard

#Life Is Hard #Life Is #Harder

I know these are going to sound like school reading-list suggestions, but if you like dystopian fiction, you should check out some of the originals: Anthem, by Ayn Rand; 1984, by George Orwell; or Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley.
-- Sara Shepard

#Reading #School #Brave New World

I really like reading about how families work together.
-- Sara Shepard

#Reading #Working Together #Together

Seeing Pretty Little Liars fans adapt and create their own stories is both exciting and flattering, and I think what Amazon Publishing is offering through Kindle Worlds is a great way to reward their ingenuity.
-- Sara Shepard

#Liars #Thinking #Offering

Secrets are very intriguing - I always think thats an interesting theme.
-- Sara Shepard

#Thinking #Interesting #Secret

I find coming up with a title the hardest part of writing a novel.
-- Sara Shepard

#Writing #Titles #Novel

I do a lot of brainstorming with my editors.
-- Sara Shepard

#Editors #Brainstorming

For me, writing for younger audiences and writing for adults uses two different halves of my brain.
-- Sara Shepard

#Writing #Two #Brain

At least she had a clear picture of what the Lying Game was now: Girl Scouts for psychopaths.
-- Sara Shepard

#Girl #Lying #Games

Last but not least, she put on a pair of black-framed reading glasses she’d found on Mr. Mercer’s bedside table. If it worked for Clark Kent, it’d work for her.
-- Sara Shepard

#Reading #Glasses #Black

But you can't make someone be something they're not.
-- Sara Shepard

I'm just saying -- you can't prevent other people from disappointing you. It's bound to happen at some point. We're all only human. What you can do is decide how you're going to deal with it.
-- Sara Shepard

#People #Just Saying #Disappointing

I don't know what to do,' she finished. 'I feel like I'm the one who has to keep everyone together.
-- Sara Shepard

#Together #Feels

Secrets can eat you alive. They break down your soul. It's better to have them in the open
-- Sara Shepard

#Soul #Secret #Alive

It's not fun to keep secrets, but sometimes you have to do it to protect yourself. And to protect people around you. - Meredith, p112
-- Sara Shepard

#Fun #People #Secret

Sometimes you have to admit that a relationship can't be fixed. That no matter how much you want to, you can't trust some people.
-- Sara Shepard

#People #Want #Matter

How could they think Noel was hot? If this was REALLY Versailles, Noel SO would not be Louis XIV, he would be the French version of the village idiot
-- Sara Shepard

#Thinking #Village Idiots #Noel

It's amazing what you don't see, though. Even when it's right in front of your eyes.
-- Sara Shepard

#Eye

If a little voice in your head is telling you something is up, maybe you should listen.
-- Sara Shepard

#Voice #Littles #Should

Four liars are about to be burned -A
-- Sara Shepard

#Liars #Four #Burned

Life isn’t worth living if you’re scared all the time.
-- Sara Shepard

#Scared

My sister had blown out the candle in our breath.That meant our wishes were definitely going to come true
-- Sara Shepard

#Wish #My Sister #Candle

I'm sorry, okay, I'm not perfect, but I'm trying.
-- Sara Shepard

#Sorry #Perfect #Trying

The lie that started it all.
-- Sara Shepard

#Lying

Catch me if you can -A
-- Sara Shepard

#Catch Me

How could any of us truly appreciate our lives if we had nothing else to compare them to?
-- Sara Shepard

#Appreciate #Compare

Knowing the right questions is better than knowing all the right answers" Caleb from Pretty Little Liars (TV Show)
-- Sara Shepard

#Liars #Tv Shows #Knowing

Aria: I went to Hollis. Because I was looking for...you know. Her. She was teaching an art class, so I ran inside, grabbed a paintbrush, and painted a scarlet A across her chest. You know, like that woman in The Scarlet Letter? It was awesome. She didn't know what hit her. And then I said, 'Now everyone will know what you've done'. Ella: Do you realize that Hester Prynne is supposed to be a sympathetic character?
-- Sara Shepard

#Art #Teaching #Character

Why don't you like Noel Kahn?" Mike's voice made Aria jump. He stood a few feet away from Aria with a carton of orange juice in his hand."He's the man." Aria groaned. "If you like him so much why don't you go out with him?
-- Sara Shepard

#Men #Hands #Voice

Strangers see you the way you want them to see you. You can't fool friends…that's what makes them friends... Pretty Little Liars
-- Sara Shepard

#Liars #Littles #Way

That's immortality my darlings" Spencer said.
-- Sara Shepard

#Immortality #Darling #Said

Here you go, dear."" The corners of Mrs. Colbert's mouth curled up. "You like meat, don't you?" Emily blinked. Was it her, or did that statement seem...loaded? She checked Issac for his reaction, but he was innocently selecting a roll from a wicker basket. "Uh, thanks." Emily said, pulling the platter toward her. She did like meat. The kind you, um, eat.
-- Sara Shepard

#Mouths #Meat #Thanks

I'm still here, bitches. And I know everything." -A
-- Sara Shepard

#Stills

Only two can keep a secret if on of them is dead.
-- Sara Shepard

#Two #Secret

She knew too much. -A
-- Sara Shepard

#Liars #Too Much

The obstacle is the path.
-- Sara Shepard

#Path #Obstacles

Never trust a pretty girl with an ugly secret.
-- Sara Shepard

#Love #Girl #Secret

When someone covets something they desire and lust over it.Usually it's something they can't have. You've always had that problem...
-- Sara Shepard

#Lust #Desire #Problem

Its not bragging if its true.
-- Sara Shepard

#Bragging

She still felt like a punked-out, faux-leather-wearing, free-thinking Bratz doll in a sea of Pretty Princess of Preppyland Barbies.
-- Sara Shepard

#Princess #Thinking #Sea

Never under estimate a pretty little liar.
-- Sara Shepard

#Liars #Littles

Don't get too comfortable. It's not over until I say it is. -A
-- Sara Shepard

#Liars

I suppose I could let bygones be bygones, forgive and forget, yadda yadda. But where's the fun in that? These pretty little ***** got everything I ever wanted, and now I'm going to make sure they get exactly what they deserve. Does that make me sound awful? Sorry, but as every pretty little liar knows, sometimes the truth's ugly-and it always hurts. I'll be watching.... Mwah! -A
-- Sara Shepard

#Hurt #Sorry #Fun

Sometimes, I don't notice I'm singing.
-- Sara Shepard

#Singing #Sometimes

I kind of have to go to the bathroom," Aria said woozily. Ezra smiled. "Can I come?
-- Sara Shepard

#Lust #Bathroom #Kind

Don't believe everything you hear
-- Sara Shepard

#Believe

There are some remedies worse than disease.
-- Sara Shepard

#Health #Disease #Remedy

Ew, no!' Laurel said, brushing past him. Dracula covered half his face with his cape, shunned vampire-style, and scooted away to his perch behind the counter.
-- Sara Shepard

#Past #Style #Vampire

Fine,' Aria conceded. 'But *I'll* carry her.' She grabbed the baby seeat from the back. A smell of baby powder wafted up to greet her, bringing a lump in her throat. Her father Byron, and his girlfriend, Meredith, had just had a baby, and she loved Lola with all her heart. If she looked too long at this baby, she might love her just as much.
-- Sara Shepard

#Baby #Girlfriend #Father

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the naughtiest of them all?
-- Sara Shepard

#Wall #Mirrors #Mirror Mirror On The Wall

It's about taking everything you thought was true and throwing it out the window. It's about embracing life's unpredictability, letting go of boundaries, and starting over
-- Sara Shepard

#Letting Go #Starting Over #Window

SPENCER: Hide and seek was my favorite game with Melissa. You want to know why? I always won.
-- Sara Shepard

#Games #Want #My Favorite

Hannakins: I know you guys are living out your own private Romeo and Juliet love story, but remember: Both of them die in Act V. -A
-- Sara Shepard

#Guy #Stories #Remember

There's a lot you can't tell about people, looking in from the outside" -Hanna
-- Sara Shepard

#People

Mike drank straight from the carton, wiped his mouth, and stared at her. "You've been acting freaky. Are you high? Can I have some if you are?
-- Sara Shepard

#Acting #Mouths #Freaky

She hated their new nickname. It made them sound like deranged Barbie dolls.
-- Sara Shepard

#Barbie #Dolls #Nicknames

Stick with me, kids. It's about to get so good... -A
-- Sara Shepard

#Kids #Sticks

Go now. Alone. Or I make good on my promise. -A
-- Sara Shepard

#Promise

If the next car passed is blue, Violet will be okay, she thought. If it's red, A will do something horrible to her. She heard a growl of an engine and shut her eyes, afraid to see what the future might hold. She'd never cared so much about anything in her life. Just as the car was passing, she opened her eyes and saw a Mercedes hood ornament. She let out a long sigh, tears coming to her eyes once more. The car was blue.
-- Sara Shepard

#Eye #Blue #Car

Sutton's dead. Tell no one. Keep playing along... or you're next.
-- Sara Shepard

#Next

You should know the truth about the stars--- even though it seems like they're close together, up there in heavens, they're zillion light years apart.
-- Sara Shepard

#Stars #Years #Light

The air smelled like a mélange of everyone's perfume and hair products, with a slight undertone of booze.
-- Sara Shepard

#Hair #Air #Perfume

I understood we used to be close. But they were like books i'd read two summer ago; I knew I'd liked them, but I couldn't tell you now what they'd been about.
-- Sara Shepard

#Summer #Book #Two

Whatever baggage you have, use it. Conquer it. Don’t let it stop you.
-- Sara Shepard

#Baggage #Use #Conquer

That was the thing about guys, though: Sometimes, they had the emotional depth of a flea.
-- Sara Shepard

#Emotional #Guy #Fleas

when I hide something, it stays hid, until I want it found.
-- Sara Shepard

#Want #Found

Never trust a pretty little liars even though they might be right.
-- Sara Shepard

#Liars #Littles #Might

...the only way to keep your secrets safe is to have none at all...
-- Sara Shepard

#Secret #Way #Safe