5 Quotes by Abigail Dean

I’ll never ask you to pity him,’ she said. ‘Only to understand him.’We sat as we often did, in deadlock, each of us waiting for the other person to speak.‘I ask you,’ she said, ‘because I think that it might help you.

Oliver, it transpired, was addicted to alcohol and cocaine, and Gabriel was addicted primarily to Oliver; then, as an inevitable accompaniment, to Oliver’s own addictions, at first for Oliver’s approval, and later – as tended to be the case – because he couldn’t stop doing them.

I wore tight, dark clothes, and a smile that I’d practised. Despite the showers and the CK One, I stank of somebody who might need saving, and men liked that best of all.

Girl A,’ she said. ‘The girl who escaped. If anybody was going to make it, it was going to be you.

I had loved JP in all of the ways that it’s unwise to love another person. Dido on the pyre. Antony in Alexandria. Bitch in heat.