One of the main characters in the novel We Were Liars is Cadence Sinclair Eastman. She has developed throughout the book. In the beginning of the novel, she is a teenager that had just been through an unspecified accident which left her unable to remember the key details of an entire summer. Throughout the book, she starts to remember more and more of ‘summer fifteen’ with the help of her friends, Johnny, Mirren, and Gat. When she finally realizes what happened, she realizes that her three closest friends are all apparitions she imagines because of her subconscious remorse of what she had done. A choice that she makes that revealed her motivations is when she had had enough of her mother and her aunts fighting to be the best child in the eyes