Believe Me Quotes

“i would happily watch the world go up in flames if anything happened to her, and if that's not enough for you, you can go to hell.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Believe Me

“If Ella were a house, she would be a grand home, one with many rooms and doors, all of which were easily unlocked, flung open. If I were a house, I would be haunted.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Believe Me

“Sometimes, when you wear a mask too long, you find it sticks to the skin.”
― J.P. Delaney, Believe Me

“I want you to know that I know that and that I see you...I want to give you peace. I want to give you a home. With me.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Believe Me

“Folks don’t give themselves enough credit. The mother who endures cavities so her children can get braces. The father who works a dead-end job so his kids can have a roof over their heads. The daughter who sacrifices college so she can take care of her disabled mother. They are all heroes, and don’t you believe otherwise.”
― Ray Smith, The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen

“Because if a woman can't trust the man who said he'd love her forever, who in this world can you trust?”
― J.P. Delaney, Believe Me

“Sometimes I'm so desperate for quiet I think I might commit murder for a moment of silence. Instead, I show down incrementally, tuning out as many voices as I'm able.”
― Tahereh Mafi

“She’s insecure, impulsive, fragile, emotionally incontinent, can’t handle rejection, and although she tries extremely hard to hide it, she craves approval like a junkie craving a fix. What can I say, Frank? She’s an actress.”
― J.P. Delaney, Believe Me

“How do we ever trust each other again, when we both know how good we are at lying?”
― J.P. Delaney, Believe Me

“You are a crazy, evil woman,” Patrick says, staring at me.

“You don’t know how crazy,” I promise him. “You haven’t seen anything yet.”
― J.P. Delaney, Believe Me

“I’ve seen shy introverts become kings and queens, the ugly become beautiful and the beautiful repulsive. Something happens, something no one can explain. Just for a few moments, you become someone else.

And that’s the best feeling there is in the world.”
― J.P. Delaney, Believe Me

“I think that for Claire Wright, reality is whatever she wants it to be.”
― J.P. Delaney, Believe Me

“And I smile at him, happy. Because it turns out the only thing better than sharing your own worst secrets is when the person you love shares his with you.”
― J.P. Delaney, Believe Me

“Who is the real Claire Wright? The one sitting here, with her precious green card permit in front of her, exchanging pleasantries with the man who provided it? Or the one who fell for the darkness she sensed deep inside the only man she couldn’t seduce? Which is the performance: Who I was then? Or who I am now?”
― J.P. Delaney, Believe Me

“I'm not proud of that stuff I do for Henry. But sometimes I am proud of how well I do it.”
― J.P. Delaney, Believe Me

“Don't think. Acting isn't faking or impersonating. The clue is in the world. Acting is doing.”
― J.P. Delaney, Believe Me

“Is it just me who does this—who feels they’re constantly watching themselves in the movie of their own life? When I ask my friends, most claim they don’t. But they must be lying. Why else would you become an actor, if not to edit reality?”
― J.P. Delaney, Believe Me

“My vision fades, like a tunnel rushing toward me, like a spotlight dimming, and my head slumps down onto my chest.
Cue curtain. Cue applause.
Cue oblivion.
Fade out.”
― J.P. Delaney, Believe Me