“ Every time I think I'm about to seize the moment, it drifts back into the shadows, just beyond my reach. Paula Hawkins
“ That's my fault, of course, because I behaved stupidly, like a child, because I didn't like feeling rejected. I need to learn to lose a little better. Paula Hawkins
“ People think it's terribly sad to spend Christmas alone, but it's no sadder, really, than spending any other day alone, is it? Paula Hawkins
“ I was commissioned to write some romantic fiction, and I really liked doing those, and they were very instructive in terms of building characters and plots. But it never felt right for me. Paula Hawkins
“ She must be very secure in herself, I suppose, in them, for it not to bother her, to walk where another woman has walked before. She obviously doesn’t think of me as a threat. I think about Ted Hughes… Paula Hawkins
“ We now know that memories are not fixed or frozen, like Proust's jars of preserves n a larder, but transformed, disassembled, reassembled, and recategorised with every act of recollection. ~Hallucinat… Paula Hawkins
“ We now know that memories are not fixed or frozen, like Proust’s jars of preserves in a larder, but are transformed, disassembled, reassembled, and recategorized with every act of recollection. —Olive… Paula Hawkins
“ Life is not a paragraph, and death is no parenthesis.(This is a reference to an E.E. Cummings poem within the author's work) Paula Hawkins
“ I don't remember things. I black out and I can't remember where I've been or what I've done. Sometimes I wonder if I've done or said terrible things, and I can't remember. And if...if someone tells me… Paula Hawkins
“ Who's to say that once I run, I'll find that isn't enough? Who's to say I won't end up feeling exactly the way I do right now-not safe, but stifled? Maybe I'll want to run again, and again, and eventu… Paula Hawkins
“ 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. Paula Hawkins
“ 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. Paula Hawkins
“ A tiding of magpies: One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl, four for a boy, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret never to be told Paula Hawkins
“ I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough for that Paula Hawkins
“ Hollowness: that I understand. I'm starting to believe that there isn't anything you can do to fix it. That's what I've taken from the therapy sessions: the holes in your life are permanent. You have… Paula Hawkins
“ As for him "feeling dead", that's probably just a consequence of him being gone from your life for so long. In some sense he no longer feels real to you. Paula Hawkins
