Victoria Jenkins > Quotes

“No one could possibly understand what it meant to watch a person alter so drastically in front of them, to see them change and deteriorate until eventually there was just a hollow shell that no longer remotely resembled the person”
― Victoria Jenkins, The First One To Die

“She wondered what a newborn felt as it was expelled from the only home it had ever known, pulled from a place of comfort and security into a world that was bright and vast and unknown. Perhaps it was a blessing that no one ever remembered what those first few moments, hours and days felt like”
― Victoria Jenkins, The Midwife

“The cruelty of time, thought Alex. The world kept spinning, clocks kept ticking: time didn’t stop for anyone’s tragedy.”
― Victoria Jenkins, The First One To Die

“Don’t let anyone or anything keep you from doing what’s best for you.”
― Victoria Jenkins, The First One To Die

“Caring for someone hurts. Loving someone brings an exposure to a type of pain nothing else is capable of inflicting.”
― Victoria Jenkins, The New Family

“When you’re already strange, she thinks, you don’t need the help of other weirdos to make you even odder.”
― Victoria Jenkins, The Argument

“Where had ‘if only’ ever got anyone?”
― Victoria Jenkins, The Girls in the Water

“Adele was pencil thin. Perhaps that was why she looked older – being skinny did that to some people.”
― Victoria Jenkins, The Playdate

“Peter's eyes met hers, but he said nothing. He didn't need to. She realised the irony. In so many ways, she too had been living a lie. Wasn't everyone, in one way or another?”
― Victoria Jenkins, The Midwife

“is”
― Victoria Jenkins, The Open Marriage

“Life was precious, though Alex realised she hadn’t always known it.”
― Victoria Jenkins, The First One To Die

“The world kept spinning, clocks kept ticking: time didn’t stop for anyone’s tragedy. Tomorrow the world would carry on as though Keira North had never existed.”
― Victoria Jenkins, The First One To Die

“He's a frightened animal, trapped in a cycle of domesticity, enslaved by a series of circumstances and wrong choices. This isn't the life he'd wanted, and he has no idea how he's going to escape”
― victoria jenkins, Happily Married

“As with every other time, she wished they could go back and undo the things they’d said years earlier; try and do things differently, better this time.”
― Victoria Jenkins, The First One To Die

“She had always hated these lonely hours, having found out at too young an age the way all bad things become even more sinister and threatening after midnight”
― Victoria Jenkins, The Midwife

“She missed him with a pain that was physical.”
― Victoria Jenkins, The Girls in the Water

“Then his expression changed, the soft edges gone, never truly there. And there it was, Chloe thought. There was the lie. You couldn’t be both: both bad and good. You could be good and do a bad thing – you could be bad and do a good thing – but one or the other had to be the true you, the real you, the one that was inherently in you, impossible to”
― Victoria Jenkins, The Girls in the Water

“itself obvious that evening. Rachel knew what was going on between him and Sarah.”
― Victoria Jenkins, The Girls in the Water

“Olivia thinks a lot about injustice and how much of it exists around her, both in her own world and in the wider one being experienced by everybody else.”
― Victoria Jenkins, The Argument

“She had thought her isolation could remain permanent, but what if the very thing that had protected her was what would keep her lonely?”
― Victoria Jenkins, The Midwife

“You can't ever run away, though, not really. The past travels with you”
― Victoria Jenkins, The Midwife

“sees”
― Victoria Jenkins, The Mother's Phone Call

“There was no wake to attend. No warm beer and barely filled sandwiches with curled-up corners. Death didn’t seem something to be celebrated,”
― Victoria Jenkins, The First One To Die

“Memories can be altered or averted. Entire conversations can be pushed into a corner somewhere they can go ignored, because ignorance is preferable to knowledge when that knowledge is something too painful to accept”
― Victoria Jenkins, Happily Married

“There really is an app for everything now, she thinks.”
― Victoria Jenkins, The Mother's Phone Call

“ever really remove or disguise.”
― Victoria Jenkins, The Girls in the Water

“and”
― Victoria Jenkins, The Accusation

“suppose the point I’m trying to make is that you can’t let other people dictate your life. You’ve got to do what’s right for you, while the chance is there.”
― Victoria Jenkins, The First One To Die

“The mind is a powerful thing. It can retain what it chooses, holding on to certain details so tightly that they're never allowed to fall from a person's consciousness, and then just as easily, it can let things go”
― Victoria Jenkins, Happily Married

“Christmas wasn’t a time of fairy lights and anticipation for many people. For many it was a time of loneliness, regret and nostalgia,”
― Victoria Jenkins, The Girls in the Water