21 Quotes by Kirsty Eagar

It’s like hearing a song for the first time and being struck by it, haunted by it, wanting to hunt it down and catch it, because the song sums up something you didn’t know you wanted to say, giving you chills and goose bumps.

Once they know they’ve got a hold of your shame, they can shake it out and hold it up for the all world to see. And you become less than it. You become something disgusting.

Aw, bugger it. Don’t die wondering.

Want to know a secret? I am someone else. Nobody knows the real me.

I reserve my right to choices, too, and I choose to behave badly.

But of course when you’ve got it bad for somebody, you aren’t really sane. You’re a stalker and a groupie combined, and you do things even you don’t want to try and understand.

I’ve got a hangover, okay? So I’m not very... It’s not easy sometimes.

There was thin, reverberating silence; the sort of delicately plucked note that isn’t heard, but felt in the heart.

Jamie’s eyes met hers and recognition passed between them. He wondered if that was how it was going to be for the rest of their lives. They’d talk as if they were just two people who used to hang out, but all the time their eyes would be saying, I know you well and I miss you badly.