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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“She's barely slept in three nights, worry keeping her awake while all her fears stood at their bedside looking worse in the darkness”
― Victoria Jenkins, Happily Married

“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

“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

“I kneel at the graveside as though in prayer, wishing that things could be different and that everything could be undone. But I know regret is futile, and wishes are never granted. No one ever got anything by wishing hard enough for it”
― Victoria Jenkins, Happily Married

“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

“Prologue: -
"The woman and the girl sat together on the sofa in the living room, the lighting muted to just the lamp on the side table, the late night shut out by the closed curtains”
― Victoria Jenkins, The Midwife

“Revenge had intoxicated her, violence becoming a part of who she was. It was easy to disguise for someone who was able to wear a mask of respectability”
― Victoria Jenkins, The Midwife

“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

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

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

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

“is”
― Victoria Jenkins, The Open Marriage

“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

“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

“when they’re little they’re arm ache, and when they’re older they’re heart ache.”
― Victoria Jenkins, The Guilty Daughter

“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

“Why are you so nice? You don’t have to be.’ ‘No one has to be. I just find life is generally easier when you are.”
― Victoria Jenkins, The Playdate