Hidden Bodies Quotes

“We all get our hearts broken. We get fucked up and throw up and we cry and listen to sad songs and say we’re never doing that again. But to be alive is to do it again. To love is to risk everything”
― Caroline Kepnes, Hidden Bodies

“The real horror of my life is not that I’ve killed some terrible people. The real horror is that the people I’ve loved didn’t love me back.”
― Caroline Kepnes, Hidden Bodies

“There is nothing more terrifying than realizing that the one who knows you best loves you least, pities you even.”
― Caroline Kepnes, Hidden Bodies

“She is not burdened with a sensitive heart. Hers just beats.”
― Caroline Kepnes, Hidden Bodies

“Los Angeles is full of places to hide a body, but when the person inside the body doesn’t love you, it’s not an easy thing, turning that breathing person into a dead one.”
― Caroline Kepnes, Hidden Bodies

“She wasted my heart, my time.”
― Caroline Kepnes, Hidden Bodies

“It would be nice to have something alive to hold on to right now, something to love me, something with a beating heart that I can feel, something to be with me as I sit here, in hell, trying to figure it out.”
― Caroline Kepnes, Hidden Bodies

“I'm like an asshole in a sitcom who learns the same fucking lesson every week and this is my life.”
― Caroline Kepnes, Hidden Bodies

“The real horror of my life is not that I've killed some terrible people. The real horror is that the people I've loved didn't love me back.”
― Caroline Kepnes, Hidden Bodies

“Everyone here wants so badly to be watched, noticed. And the upside is that the desire to be watched is a blindfold.”
― Caroline Kepnes, Hidden Bodies

“She thinks she's so smart but if you erase an hour, it doesn't mean shit, not unless you erase the weeks leading up to that hour.”
― Caroline Kepnes, Hidden Bodies

“Hollywood, where the rich don't have to pay for anything.”
― Caroline Kepnes, Hidden Bodies

“Do . . . you . . . speak . . . English?" she asks.

NO, BUT I SPEAK CUNT.”
― Caroline Kepnes, Hidden Bodies

“I scroll through my own stories in my phone, the ones I write when I can't sleep, when I think about her, about what the fuck happened, when I make like Alvy Singer and try to correct it all with my imagination.”
― Caroline Kepnes, Hidden Bodies

“It's the little things that make you want to kill someone, the way Milo drinks Diet Dr Pepper and ties his Jewfro in a bun and lifts his shirt to show off his stomach and wipes his glasses down even though they're not dirty. Yes, Milo got glasses, and seafoam green Topsiders, and a navy blue Polo-style shirt with a popped collar, and didn't I already kill this guy when he was schilling Home Soda and fucking Guinevere Beck?”
― Caroline Kepnes, Hidden Bodies

“I bet he got picked on but what they don't tell you about bullying is that sometimes, the kid deserves it.”
― Caroline Kepnes, Hidden Bodies

“Captain Dave is a salt-and-pepper guy who looks older than forty-six. He doesn't have kids of his own. Some people are born to be uncles and Captain Dave is that kind of people. He's also a recovering alcoholic who's obsessed with what everyone else is drinking at all times. Life is hard for some people.”
― Caroline Kepnes, Hidden Bodies

“The song "Born in the U.S.A." comes on and he groans. "I hate Bruce Springsteen," he says. "Can we do something about this? Goddamn whiny Democrat, we get it. You're from New Jersey and you think it's cool to be poor. Just fuck off already.”
― Caroline Kepnes, Hidden Bodies

“There is something wrong with me. Love lifts us up but it also makes us roam around Little Compton like we didn't murder the girl in the news.”
― Caroline Kepnes, Hidden Bodies

“I gave her as much as I had, but it's like the difference between a movie and a book: A book lets you choose how much of the blood you want to see. A book gives you the permission to see the story as you want, as your mind directs. You interpret. Your Alexander Portnoy doesn't look like mine because we all have our unique view. When you finish a movie you leave the theater with your friend and talk about the movie right away. When you finish a book you think. Love grew up on movies and I have just read her a book. I give her time to digest.”
― Caroline Kepnes, Hidden Bodies

“All of life is slightly dependent on magic. So is death.”
― Caroline Kepnes, Hidden Bodies

“Detective Carr sits in his chair. In a way I think it would be terrible to live in LA devoid of aspirations. How would you do it? How would you put up with the traffic and the monotony of the sun, the way people use the word hella and lie so freely? How could you stand it here if you weren't striving for something better? Oh that's right; he liked The Wolf of Wall Street. He aspires to take someone down like me, a serial killer. But he chose the wrong guy. I am done with all that. And I will not let my past dictate my future.”
― Caroline Kepnes, Hidden Bodies

“When I pull Amy's extra-long body into an infinity pool and make it look like an accident—dare to dream!—I will be okay because I will have become a Facebook guy, a normal dude. We live in an era where people who don't have 4,355 friends are considered nefarious, as if socially entrenched citizens aren't also capable of murder. I need friends so that when Amy disappears, my friends can roll their eyes at the idea of handsome, gregarious Joe killing someone. I can't be that guy who 'keeps to himself." That's too in-line with the dated but pervasive stereotype of a 'killer' reinforced by biased TV 'news' shows no matter how many happy-go-lucky husbands go and murder their wives. We all want to fear single people. It's endemic. It's American.”
― Caroline Kepnes, Hidden Bodies

“Dope guac," says some asshole, and I pick up a Dorito and shove it into the guac. There is nothing remarkable about this guac, about any guac, and California needs to calm the fuck down. They're just avocados. Guac is guac and while sometimes it's slimy and disgusting, it's never delicious.”
― Caroline Kepnes, Hidden Bodies

“Everyone in this building is sleeping; Angelenos need beauty sleep. They need energy to make storyboards for web series and hike and talk about movies they'll never make and walk their dogs that hate them.”
― Caroline Kepnes, Hidden Bodies

“This is why people like writing. You visit old friends without having to go on Facebook and see what they're up to and deal with what idiots call FOMO. You make them into what you want them to be, the people they could be if only they were braver, smarter.”
― Caroline Kepnes, Hidden Bodies

“So it's on. A plan is made. I'm relaxed just knowing that he's going to be dead soon.”
― Caroline Kepnes, Hidden Bodies

“At the counter, a different waitress flirts with an aspiring writer who's probably been trying to fuck her and finish his screenplay for months. He asks for a side of guac and she tells him that it's two dollars extra. That's how it works here. The guy who deserves free guac doesn't get free guac.”
― Caroline Kepnes, Hidden Bodies

“. . . a nightmarish thing that frightens Love, haunting her, weighing her down, the thing that she's supposed to love, the way the world initially instructs children to love clowns even though we all know deep down that they're creepy, old, puffy men in masks leering at children.”
― Caroline Kepnes, Hidden Bodies

“The sweetest thing in life is to be alone, as you were born, as you will die, soaking in the sun, knowing that you put the cactus in the right place, that you don't need someone to come along and compliment your work, that someone who did that would, in fact, just be getting in the way.”
― Caroline Kepnes