15 Quotes by Rachel Abbott

Becky was increasingly of the opinion that people were inherently bad; it was just a matter of how well they controlled their badness.

Sometimes she thought of David as an ostrich, burying his head in the sand and forcing himself to believe that all would be well. It was one of the few things about him that she found frustrating. It wasn’t so much optimism as an inability to face reality and a tendency to look for the easy way out. It wasn’t going to work this time. There was no easy way out.

We all lie. To ourselves and to each other. We make excuses by referring to our untruths as fibs or white lies, trivialising them as harmless. Or we claim they are necessary to shelter others from hurt. However we try to justify them, whatever their shape or form, they are still lies.

You can’t build true happiness on someone else’s misery.

Revenge is seeing someone suffer for a lifetime in retribution for what they’ve put you through. If I had wanted revenge on Mark, he wouldn’t be dead.

Well, she thought, I made a right cock of that.