“I failed her. And she's out of my life. I don't even know where she's living. What she's doing to get through the days. And I miss her. Every single day, I miss her.”
― Val McDermid, quote from Cross and Burn
“It forced me to realise that I'd been blaming you for not being flawless. And none of us is flawless.' Another sigh. 'I was so angry with myself for what happened to Michael and Lucy that I had to turn my anger somewhere else and you were the easiest target.”
― Val McDermid, quote from Cross and Burn
“We all make mistakes, Carol. Sometimes they're more expensive than others. But I don't deserve to lose you,' he said, spreading his hands in appeal.”
― Val McDermid, quote from Cross and Burn
“To move forward, you have to accept the truth of a situation. Not persist in myth-making.”
― Val McDermid, quote from Cross and Burn
“She'd cook like an angel and fuck like a whore”
― Val McDermid, quote from Cross and Burn
“The bodies of two murdered women have been found this week. For the record, I didn't kill either of them.”
― Val McDermid, quote from Cross and Burn
Val McDermid
Born place: in Fife, Scotland, The United Kingdom
Born date June 4, 1955
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“The trouble with gods is that after enough people start believing in them, they begin to exist. And what begins to exist isn't what was originally intended.”
― Terry Pratchett, quote from Pyramids
“Awww, 'tis the refuge we take when the unreality of the world weighs too heavy on our tiny heads.”
― Edward Albee, quote from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
“I want to touch you,” I whispered against her lips. “I want to feel what’s mine. What’s always been mine”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Until You
“that was the thing about nature: make one lousy rule to describe it and it'll contradict you even if it has to transmogrify and metamorphosize and bust its ass to do it. and so what? if anybody grew wise enough to grasp the real immutable laws of nature, nature'd only rear back and strike 'em dead before they got anybody to understand them”
― David James Duncan, quote from The River Why
“The parking lot was almost empty, except for an old bus from which a load of senior citizens were disembarking. The bus was from the Calvary Baptist Church in someplace like Firecracker, Georgia, or Bareassed, Alabama. The old people were noisy and excited, like schoolchildren, and pushed in front of me at the ticket booth, little realizing that I wouldn't hesitate to give an old person a shove, especially a Baptist. Why is it, I wondered, that old people are always so self-centered and excitable? But I just smiled benignly and stood back, comforted by the thought that soon they would be dead.”
― Bill Bryson, quote from The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America
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