49 Quotes by Jane Harper

Dirty mugs crowded a side table, the recycling bin was overflowing, and stacks of letters stood unopened. It all told a tale of grief and distraction.

Death rarely changes how we feel about someone. Heightens it, more often than not.

They lived in a land of extremes in more ways than one. People were either completely fine, or very not.

But when she re-emerged in his life at fifteen, it was like she’d been reborn, fully formed and trailing fascination and mystery behind her like perfume.

The rabbit quivered a little under their scrutiny but mainly lay still. Fear masquerading as acceptance.

It’s the panic that gets you. Makes it hard to trust what you’re seeing.

His edges had been gently rounded by nuanced debate and foreign coffee and morning news.

And yes, he battled the daily commute to work and spent a lot of his days under fluorescent office lights, but at least his livelihood didn’t hang by a thread on the whim of a weather pattern. At least he wasn’t driven to such fear and despair by the blank skies that there was even a chance the wrong end of a gun might look like the right answer.

Show her a mother of school-age children who didn’t sigh on a daily basis, and she’d show you a woman with a nanny.