Claire Seeber > Quotes

“It took me a lifetime to understand that, all too often, people are just plain nasty. They can't see beyond their own stuff. They're scarred forever, and they want to take you down too.”
― Claire Seeber, The Stepmother

“Still, the thing lurks in the corners of my mind, that squat little beast called memory, its sticky fingers covering everything with a thin layer of slime.”
― Claire Seeber, The Stepmother

“Happy endings? In my book, they're what you get down the massage parlour on the Old Kent Road. They are not real life.”
― Claire Seeber, The Stepmother

“But what is nice anyway? Nice is so often only on the surface in my experience. The debris usually lies beneath.”
― Claire Seeber, The Stepmother

“We have to live life forwards, but can only understand it backwards.”
― Claire Seeber, 24 Hours

“With love comes pain”
― Claire Seeber, The Street Party

“I had dreamed Sid into being. Into being what I thought he was, what I wanted him to be. Not what or who he actually was.”
― Claire Seeber, 24 Hours

“You'd do as well to remember life isn't just about wealth”
― Claire Seeber, The Street Party

“The hardest lesson I'd learnt over the past two years: grief doesn't stop the world turning, even when it feels like it should have stopped dead”
― Claire Seeber, The Street Party

“Don’t mind me,’ I joked, but no one really laughed. Matthew raised”
― Claire Seeber, The Stepmother

“Old-fashioned, maybe – but show me a woman who can have really good sex and not attach in some way, and I’ll show you a genius, a liar – or a broken soul.”
― Claire Seeber, 24 Hours

“Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you. You just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.”
― Claire Seeber, The Street Party

“touch really soon, I swear.”
― Claire Seeber, The Stepmother

“As if I’d dreamed you into being.”
― Claire Seeber, 24 Hours

“I left my son there. Our lives were turning on their heads, as if in slow motion - as if we were the first astronauts freewheeling on the moon. As if there was still time to stop the chain of events happening, reel it in safely. Except there wasn't”
― Claire Seeber, The Street Party

“When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.’ I”
― Claire Seeber, The Stepmother

“sometimes we see, and sometimes we simply choose not to look. Sometimes we just close our eyes.”
― Claire Seeber, 24 Hours

“My perfect life was so far from perfect, every ounce of energy spent making it look like this, plastering up the facade. But slowly, below it, I was cracking, like the glaze on an old jar”
― Claire Seeber, The Street Party