Erin Kelly > Quotes

“A good mother loves fiercely but ultimately brings up her children to thrive without her. They must be the most important thing in her life, but if she is the most important thing in theirs, she has failed.”
― Erin Kelly, The Burning Air

“Waiting for something horrible to happen is almost more draining than it actually happening.”
― Erin Kelly, He Said/She Said

“Grief is like a splinter deep into every fingertip; to touch anything is torture.”
― Erin Kelly, Broadchurch

“...so I blocked it from my mind. I could do that with things I didn't want to think about, like snapping shut a book.”
― Erin Kelly, The Poison Tree

“The angry mob of villagers wield camera phones, the twenty-first century equivalent of pitchforks and flaming torches.”
― Erin Kelly, Broadchurch

“The stress hormones of adrenaline and cortisol, when pumped in sufficient quantity, rival anything you can smoke or swallow. Within a year of the Lizard, I would envy those who could dry out in rehab. When you suffer from anxiety, you carry an endless supply.”
― Erin Kelly, He Said/She Said

“As this went on, I realised that it is more tiring to be bored than to be engaged.”
― Erin Kelly, He Said/She Said

“There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is seeing something that isn’t there. THOMAS HARDY”
― Erin Kelly, Broadchurch

“It’s Hardy’s idea of hell – fresh air, isolation, grass, never-ending sky – but he knows that the world’s full of idiots who love this sort of thing.”
― Erin Kelly, Broadchurch

“You can get by in the foreign language, you can communicate, but the pleasure of speaking to those who understand every subtlety and nuance must make you want to cry with relief.”
― Erin Kelly, He Said/She Said

“The moment you think about an act in terms of how, you are already halfway to doing it.”
― Erin Kelly, He Said/She Said

“When you only have one vanity, I think you’re allowed to indulge it.)”
― Erin Kelly, He Said/She Said

“I do not know what is going to happen to us. I am frightened but I feel strong. I have the strength of a woman who has everything to loose.”
― Erin Kelly, The Poison Tree

“bone. I cried so hard that evening that I graduated from tissues to kitchen rolls to towels.”
― Erin Kelly, He Said/She Said

“I know from my own counselling that anger always has hurt at its core.”
― Erin Kelly, He Said/She Said

“Daybreak,' he said, looking out at it. 'I always thought it was funny that dawn should be called daybreak. This is when the day is made - it's the beginning. I'ts the best part: you've got all the potential of the day to come, and you haven't wasted yet. When it gets dark, that should be daybreak. When the day is broken. When it turns into night time, that's when it all start's to go wrong.”
― Erin Kelly, The Poison Tree

“Bindra strikes me as the type to dot all her Is and cross all her Ts and then check everyone else’s grammar as well.”
― Erin Kelly, The Skeleton Key

“But that’s what coming home means, doesn’t it? You’re always going to be who you were then.”
― Erin Kelly, The Skeleton Key

“If I waited for a proper occasion to get dressed up I'd never wear half of these clothes. Put on the clothes and you make things happen to match them. It doesn't work the other way around.”
― Erin Kelly

“People who’ve never met her recoil from her intensity so why, when I spent so much time with her, didn’t I see it until it was too late?”
― Erin Kelly, He Said/She Said

“Nothing rips you out of the future like pain; your world gets reduced to the searing moment.”
― Erin Kelly, He Said/She Said

“I am part of the first generation of women who can really truly have financial independence and choose whom I marry and choose if and when I have children and somehow I have ended up here, playing second fiddle to a man whose idea of good art is to flaunt his adultery.”
― Erin Kelly, The Skeleton Key

“Cora's eyes are full of what makes a human. Fear and hurt and love and panic suspended in water and jelly and protein.”
― Erin Kelly, The Skeleton Key

“The fears of a few seconds ago seem unfounded, as nightmares always do when the light comes back on.”
― Erin Kelly, He Said/She Said

“That's the thing about sleepwalking . You can walk, eat, have conversations and even drive cars in perfect safety. The danger comes from waking up too quickly.”
― Erin Kelly, The Poison Tree

“A vacuum should be weightless, but I stagger under the burden of it.”
― Erin Kelly, He Said/She Said

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― Erin Kelly, He Said/She Said

“The suggestion presumes that there are moments when Rose is not on Dominic’s mind. That he makes a conscious decision to think about her, when she is in fact his default setting. Actually? He doesn’t think about Rose, ever. He feels her, all day long. She is a feeling that is extraordinary, but so ever-present that he takes it for granted. To notice it would be like noticing blinking or swallowing.”
― Erin Kelly, The Skeleton Key

“that's the thing with secrets. They're leaky; you can't decide to share the bits that suit you without a million questions oozing out. You have to solder a part of yourself shut.”
― Erin Kelly, He Said/She Said

“Leibniz said, Music is the mind counting without being conscious it’s counting. An eclipse is maths; it’s the most beautiful maths there is.”
― Erin Kelly, He Said/She Said