240 Quotes by Paula Hawkins
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I have never understood how people can blithely disregard the damage they do by following their hearts. Who was it said that following your heart is a good thing? It is pure egotism, a selfishness to conquer all.
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A familiar ache fills my chest. I have felt this way before. On a larger scale, to a more intense degree, of course, but I remember the quality of the pain. You don’t forget it.
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After everything he’s been through he deserves to be happy, I will never begrude him happiness, I only wish it could be with me.
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Maybe the courage I need has nothing to do with telling the truth and everything to do with walking away.
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Drunk Rachel sees no consequences, she is either excessively expansive and optimistic or wrapped up in hate. She has no past, no future. She exists purely in the moment.
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I’m not normal.
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Nobody warned me it would break us. But it did. Or rather, it broke me, and then I broke us.
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I am no longer just a girl on the train, going back and forth without point or purpose.
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Hollowness: that I understand. I’m starting to believe that there isn’t anything you can do to fix it. That’s what I’ve taken from the therapy sessions: the holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mold yourself through the gaps.
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