“Even those we’ve loved all our lives are highly unlikely to be perfect.”
― Rachel Abbott, quote from Sleep Tight
“what that meant. He could spend the night”
― Rachel Abbott, quote from Sleep Tight
“One of the women was a natural bitch – all women recognise them, but men rarely do.”
― Rachel Abbott, quote from Sleep Tight
“I’d begun to feel as if there was a creeping deadness inside me, encroaching on the calm and replacing it with a black void, a vacuum where emotion should be. And the deadness was growing and penetrating every corner of my soul, reaching out its dark tentacles to smother all natural reactions.”
― Rachel Abbott, quote from Sleep Tight
“at the guest house in Anglesey,’ Tom stated.”
― Rachel Abbott, quote from Sleep Tight
“But nobody was there; nobody was even looking.”
― Rachel Abbott, quote from Sleep Tight
“The girl was smiling as she left the noisy, packed pub, and shouts of laughter were ringing in her ears as she wrestled the heavy door open, letting in an icy blast of cold air. She”
― Rachel Abbott, quote from Sleep Tight
“her way and a few arms were raised in a farewell salute, but most were otherwise occupied with pint glasses, or were gesticulating wildly to emphasise”
― Rachel Abbott, quote from Sleep Tight
“The dark night settled around her and the sudden silence hit her like a physical blow. For a moment she stood still.”
― Rachel Abbott, quote from Sleep Tight
“But now I realise that I’ve settled for mediocrity. How had I let it happen? How did I lose myself?”
― Rachel Abbott, quote from Sleep Tight
“If a man tries to steal your wife, the best form of revenge is to let him have her.”
― Rachel Abbott, quote from Sleep Tight
“of sorrow and distress, or something else”
― Rachel Abbott, quote from Sleep Tight
“Right – let’s talk about this woman.’ Becky”
― Rachel Abbott, quote from Sleep Tight
“The waiting – the uncertainty and the frustration of being unable to do anything – is unbearable.”
― Rachel Abbott, quote from Sleep Tight
“It’s been hard to maintain the outward image of the old me for Robert’s sake while simultaneously”
― Rachel Abbott, quote from Sleep Tight
“single moment – the scuffing of a shoe,”
― Rachel Abbott, quote from Sleep Tight
“Have you ever looked obsession in the face, Chief Inspector? Strip away the mask of normality, and it’s a hideous, contorted serpent that lurks beneath the skin, writhing with frustration until the object of its desire is under its control.”
― Rachel Abbott, quote from Sleep Tight
“off to fling over the back of a chair, and made his”
― Rachel Abbott, quote from Sleep Tight
“I should have known what might happen. I should have understood better what Robert had been telling me in everything but words. It’s now three hours since he left with my babies, and every bone and muscle in my body is aching with their loss.”
― Rachel Abbott, quote from Sleep Tight
“Has there been in an accident?”
― Rachel Abbott, quote from Sleep Tight
“For a moment, I can’t speak so”
― Rachel Abbott, quote from Sleep Tight
“or perhaps because of, her natural aloofness and her ability to withdraw and view things without emotion. The fact that this extended to her own life, leaving her appearing cold and distant, was beside the point.”
― Rachel Abbott, quote from Sleep Tight
“People do all sorts of daft things for no reason that anybody else can understand...”
― Rachel Abbott, quote from Sleep Tight
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“There is only one safeguard against error, and that is to be established in the faith; and for that, there has to be prayerful and diligent study, and a receiving with meekness the engrafted Word of God. Only then are we fortified against the attacks of those who assail us.”
― Arthur W. Pink, quote from The Attributes of God
“But his own mind was helpless against every moment's headline. He did nothing but leap into the mass of changes and explore them and all the tiny facets so eventually he was completely governed by fears of certainty. He distrusted it in anyone but Nora for there it went to the spine, and yet he attacked it again and again in her, cruelly, hating it, the sure lanes of the probable. Breaking chairs and window glass doors in fury at her certain answers. [15-16]”
― Michael Ondaatje, quote from Coming Through Slaughter
“The boats were filled mostly with steerage passengers who lived in Trebizond or were visiting relations there, and the women carried great bundles and sacks full of things, but the men carried suit-cases with sharp, square corners, which helped them very much in the struggle to get on and stay on the boats, for this was very violent and intense. More than one woman got shoved overboard into the sea during the struggle, and had to be dragged out by husbands and acquaintances, but one sank too deep and had to be left, for the boat-hooks could not reach her; all we saw were the apples out of her basket bobbing on the waves. I thought that women would not stand much chance in a shipwreck, and in the struggle for the boats many might fall in the sea and be forgotten, but the children would be saved all right, for Turks love their children, even the girls.”
― Rose Macaulay, quote from The Towers of Trebizond
“Of all the spirits I have seen, only Elvis and Mr. Sinatra are able to manifest in the garments of their choice. Others haunt me always in whatever they were wearing when they died.
This is one reason I will never attend a costume party dressed as the traditional symbol of the New Year, in nothing buy a diaper and a top hat. Welcomed into either Hell or Heaven, I do not want to cross the threshold to the sound of demonic or angelic laughter. ~Odd Thomas”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Odd Hours
“Our eyes met. We had so very many shared memories between us, Bao and I. Some were wonderous, and some were terrible. Some were both.”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Naamah's Blessing
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