240 Quotes by Paula Hawkins

On the way back down the road, he passes me in his car, our eyes meet for just a second and he smiles at me.

He might be a very good liar, but I know when he’s telling the truth. He doesn’t fool me.

Anything was possible. When you hear hooves you look for horses, but you can’t discount zebras.

Life is not a paragraph, and death is no parenthesis.

But then I think, this happens sometimes, doesn’t it? People you have a history with, they won’t let you go, and as hard as you might try, you can’t disentangle yourself, can’t set yourself free. Maybe after a while you just stop trying.

She’s cuckoo, laying her egg in my nest.

The memory doesn’t fit with the reality, because I don’t remember anger, raging fury. I remember fear.

And I’ve just got to let myself feel the pain, because if I don’t, if I keep numbing it, it’ll never really go away.

All this guilt, this doubt, it was corrosive. It was changing her, twisting her. She was not the woman she used to be. She could feel herself slipping, slithering as though she were shedding a skin, and she didn’t like the rawness underneath, she didn’t like the smell of it. It made her feel vulnerable, it made her feel afraid.