Rebecca Scherm Quotes & Sayings

She hadn't realized she was lonely until she began to understand that other people were not. — Rebecca Scherm

The best lies were the simplest and made the most sense, in the mind and in the mouth. — Rebecca Scherm

You need one person who knows you... Just one person you can't fool, even when you fool yourself. — Rebecca Scherm

Art was there to scratch at people's brains, to help ideas find traction in metaphor that they could not when made explicit. — Rebecca Scherm

But it does make you feel smaller, which is a relief in some ways. When you screw up, it seems less terrible. all these people, everybody screwing up. — Rebecca Scherm

The universe would give you whatever you wanted if you twisted its arm hard enough. — Rebecca Scherm

Grace hated lying, got no joy from it, and this was how she knew she wasn't pathological. — Rebecca Scherm

Real liars don't lie about anything," Hanna said. "They just lie. 'About' is a word liars use to justify their lying, to make it seem like a localized problem." "You've made quite a study," Grace said, trying to sound light and wry. "But I still don't know," Hanna said. "And that upsets me. With a liar, you can never know the whole truth, ever. You can't ever be sure that this version is the real version. There is no end, no bottom. Sometimes I wonder if the whole thing was a hoax. — Rebecca Scherm

Boys never seemed stupider than when they were surprised by the bad behavior of other men. — Rebecca Scherm

Anger was simple, self-sustaining as a cactus. You couldn't look too closely at it, lest the spines get you in the eye. — Rebecca Scherm

But that was the least of it. He knew the worst of her, and that was better. — Rebecca Scherm