240 Quotes by Paula Hawkins

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.

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.

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.

Maybe the courage I need has nothing to do with telling the truth and everything to do with walking away.

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.

I’m not normal.

Nobody warned me it would break us. But it did. Or rather, it broke me, and then I broke us.

I am no longer just a girl on the train, going back and forth without point or purpose.

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.