26 Quotes by Clare Mackintosh

Five years of someone's life is too much to lose over a throwaway comment.

They speak to each other through the magistrate, like warring children communicating through a parent, their words are extravagantly emotive illustrated with flamboyant gestures that are wasted on the empty court room

I want to fix an image of him in my head, but all I can see when I close my eyes is his body, still and lifeless in my arms. I let him go, and I will never forgive myself for that.

I would like to live the rest of my life knowing exactly what is happening each hour, each day.

I envy Pip the time she spends with Dylan, but at the same time, I don't know if I could do it. Time away from the hospital gives me strength for when I come back. Eating proper food fuels me for when I don't eat at all. Seeing healthy, happy people around me reminds me that's the life we once had. The life we'll have again.

None of us knows what’s going to happen in the future, love. The only thing we can do is make our choices on the way we feel right here, right now.

My steps feel lighter now and I realize it’s because I’m running toward something, and not away from it.

Gradually, without my noticing, my grief has changed shape; from a raw, jagged pain that won’t be silenced to a dull, rounded ache I’m able to lock away at the back of my mind.

When Alexis was born, I thought I’d never have a second child. How could I, when I’d already poured my love into my first? But then I had Brianna, and then Logan, and I realized something they don’t teach you in biology... The heart stretches.