“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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“But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.”
― D.H. Lawrence, quote from Women in Love
“And as the ax bites into the wood, be comforted in the fact that the ache in your heart and the confusion in your souls means that you are still alive, still human, and still open to the beauty of the world, even though you have done nothing to deserve it.”
― Paul Harding, quote from Tinkers
“First shall be the Guardian, a vessel of light in the darkness. Then the Shaft and the Vanguard, who shall fail and yet not fail if the Guide, the Unseen One, goes forth. And at the last shall be again the Guardian, whose portion is bitter, as bitter as gall.”
― quote from Stalking Darkness
“It is so demanding to be born into a house full of women, where everyone loves you so overwhelmingly that they end up suffocating with their love; a house where you, as the only child, have to be more mature than all the adults around....
But the problem is that they want me to become everything they themselves couldn't accomplish in life.....
As a result, I had to work my butt off to fulfill all their dreams at the same time.”
― Elif Shafak, quote from The Bastard of Istanbul
“In the Amazon, the turn to swidden was unfortunate. Slash-and-burn cultivation has become one of the driving forces behind the loss of tropical forest. Although swidden does permit the forest to regrow, it is wildly inefficient and environmentally unsound. The burning sends up in smoke most of the nutrients in the vegetation—almost all of the nitrogen and half the phosphorus and potassium. At the same time, it pours huge amounts of carbon dioxide into the air, a factor in global warming. (Large cattle ranches are the major offenders in the Amazon, but small-scale farmers are responsible for up to a third of the clearing.) Fortunately, it is a relatively new practice, which means it has not yet had much time to cause damage. More important, the very existence of so much healthy forest after twelve thousand years of use by large populations suggests that whatever Indians did before swidden must have been ecologically more sustainable.”
― Charles C. Mann, quote from 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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