240 Quotes by Paula Hawkins

Every time I hear footsteps on the steps, my heart rate goes up. Every time I hear the clacking of high heels, I am seized with trepidation.

I’ve been the fool. If he does it with you, he’ll do it to you.

It broke me and I broke us.

After all he gave up for me, for the two of us to be together, I let him think that he wasn’t enough.

He doesn’t know how determined I can be. Once I’ve made my mind up, I’m a force to be reckoned with.

That’s my fault, of course, because I behaved stupidly, like a child, because I didn’t like feeling rejected. I need to learn to lose a little better.

Why would she do that? Jason loves her, I can see it, they’re happy. I can’t believe she would do that to him, he doesn’t deserve that. I feel a real sense of disappointment, I feel as though I have been cheated. 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.

Watching someone in the throes of raw grief is a terrible thing; the act of watching feels violent, intrusive, a violation. Yet we do it, we have to do it, all the time; you just have to learn to cope with it whatever way you can.

The more I want to be oblivious, the less I can be. Life and light will not let me be.