240 Quotes by Paula Hawkins

They never saw what the water really was, greenish-black and filled with living things and dying things.

Let's be honest: women are still only really valued for two things--their looks and their role as mothers. I'm not beautiful, and I can't have kids, so what does that make me? Worthless.

Lena's voice grew cold. "I don't understand you. I don't understand people like you, who always choose to blame the woman. If there's two people doing something wrong and one of them's a girl, it's got to be her fault, right?

I sit there on the floor with the picture in front of me and think about how things get broken all the time by accident, and how sometimes you just don't get round to getting them fixed.

She felt it when she woke, not a presence but an absence.

Cathy's a nice person, in a forceful sort of way. She makes you notice her niceness.

You take care of yourself, Rachel," she said, and there was something about the way she said it that made it feel like a warning. We are tied together, forever bound by the stories we told.

His pity was almost palpable. I’d never realized, not until the last year or two of my life, how shaming it is to be pitied.

Beckford is not a suicide spot. Beckford is a place to get rid of troublesome women.