Big Little Lies Novels & Stories

"Spare me the therapy, Lydia." "I'm serious," she insisted softly, turning her gaze back to me. "My own boyfriend... he cheated on me. For months, I sat there thinking we had something real, something honest. But it was just one secret after another. Lies stacked on top of lies." She let out a shaky breath, a tear miraculously forming at the corner of her eye to sell the performance. "It destroys you, Kingsley. It makes you realize that some people are just incapable of being honest."

Everything went smoothly, right up until he ran into me. He had planned to do what he had done before: pick a fight, blame someone else for an "unstable pregnancy," then use that as an excuse to take leave and stage a miscarriage later. But I had gone through this life before. I didn't fall for it. After hearing all that, the room went quiet. Philip and HR both looked like their faces had been drained of color. With a scandal like this, the company was going to be a joke across the whole industry.

I admit I gave birth to him but Nikolai will never hear a word about the person he belonged to. “I see,” he clicked his tongue as his jaw flexed. “You come up with a lie, feed everyone lies and five years later, you show up. Never feeling the weight of the damage you caused.” “Five years later you show up with the evidence of the fact that you moved on when you let others mourn against a grave that never existed.” “Five years. And you sit there and announce to me that you lived completely while you let others bleed for you.” Nikolai reached me the next second, eyes locked onto mine, jaw clenched, eyes burning with contained rage. “I have questions, Ari, and I want answers.”

Ophelia wore a high collar to hide the bite marks. Carl didn’t bother. Everyone noticed. Lilith cornered her in the library. “So… you gonna tell me, or do I have to psychic-rip it from your head?” Ophelia glared. “It’s not what you think.” “You did sleep with him.” Ophelia said nothing. Lilith gasped. “Oh my god.” “Shut up.” Lilith squealed into a book. “Okay, but also… finally.” Ophelia buried her face in her arms.

The city slipped by outside dark storefronts, empty streets, the glow of distant traffic lights. “You know,” I said finally, my voice low, “our whole lives have been built on lies. My mother lied to protect me. Your father lies to control everyone. Rebecca lied to herself. And me I’ve been lying to myself since the day I met you.” Alex turned his head toward me, eyes glassy with pain. “How?” “Because I wanted to believe we could be normal. That love could fix everything. But nothing about this is normal.”

she asked, a mocking smile curling at her lips, as though she already knew the answer but wanted to hear me squirm. What was this? It was the fake marriage contract Colin had me sign. What the hell was he thinking, leaving something that sensitive just sitting on his computer? "Mrs. Booth, I can explain!" "You get 45 thousand a year and a fully furnished two-bedroom apartment. Sounds like a great deal. Men—once they've got money, they just can't help themselves, huh? If he'd just fooled around a little on the side, I might've looked the other way. But this? This is a long-term sugar baby arrangement! I can make one call and have you both charged with fraud. You'd spend the rest of your lives

"People are calling you an accomplice to attempted murder. The company's stock is tanking. So is Adelson Corp's." Chuck's voice cracked. "What?" He snatched the tablet—hate comments were flooding in. [No one deserves to be lied to for six years. She didn't even know she wasn't their real daughter. She offered to leave the second she found out—never tried to take someone else's place.] [Stabbed, nearly died, then forced into marriage so the culprit could dodge jail. And they still drugged her to block her from having kids—just to keep the "real" daughter's spot open. What kind of karma is that?]

I heard about Piero's recent life from other classmates. After that day, he and Vivian had a huge fight. He said he still loved me, wanted to divorce Vivian, and blamed her for keeping him from marrying me. Vivian was furious, blurting out that she never had cancer. It was all a lie to get him to marry her. When she went abroad and learned Piero was with me, she couldn't accept it. Knowing he'd liked her before, she crafted a lie, and it worked.

“We didn't take anyone at all, I just did what I was asked.” “And what was it that you were asked?” Cal eyed him suspiciously. “To tell you exactly what I had said if we get caught.” “Where are the other men?” “It was just the four of us, I think they are dead somewhere.” “Get me a knife,” I held his balls right in my hands. “P-p-please, I swear I'm telling the truth.” “Another lie,” I pushed his trousers down, “hold him down for me.” Cal pinned him to the upturned car.

“Oh, so you’ve seen the papers, haven’t you?” “You said you were going to contact them to change it.” “I lied,” she answered carelessly. “You know, the same way you lied to Dylan Bass and told him my proposal was yours.” “That’s what this is about?” “What? You think I was just going to let you get away with pulling such a dirty trick? Of course, that’s what this is about? How does it feel to not be given the credit you deserve, Dominic? I bet it’s an amazing feeling.”