Fiona Barton > Quotes

“I remember looking at him lying there in a small pool of blood and thinking ‘oh well, that’s the end of his nonsense”
― Fiona Barton, The Widow

“People say what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. They say that when you been through something terrible ... But it doesn't. It breaks your bones, leaving everything splintered and held together with grubby bandages and yellowing sticky tape. Creaking along the fault lines, Fragile and exhausting to hold together. Sometimes you wish it had killed you.”
― Fiona Barton, The Child

“The simple lies are the hardest, funnily enough. The big ones seem to just fall off the tongue:”
― Fiona Barton, The Widow

“It's a strange feeling, owning a secret. It's like a stone in my stomach, crushing my insides and making me feel sick every time I think of it.”
― Fiona Barton, The Widow

“Addicts are brilliant liars, Inspector. They lie to themselves and then to everyone else. They’re in denial about their problem, and they are experts at finding excuses and other people to blame,”
― Fiona Barton, The Widow

“Dangerous to think you know too much, sometimes, because who really knows someone else? You can scratch the skin, but you never get to the meat of someone else. Into their bones.”
― Fiona Barton, The Child

“Everyone wants to know the truth. Except those who don’t. Those who stand to lose by it.”
― Fiona Barton, The Suspect

“All I can think is: Jake and Freddie. What lovely names. I stash them away for later, for my collection,”
― Fiona Barton, The Widow

“The problem is that a secret takes on a life of its own over time.”
― Fiona Barton, The Child

“People say what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. .But it doesn't. It breaks your bones, leaving everything splintered and held together with grubby bandages and yellowing sticky tape.Creaking along the fault lines. Fragile and exhausting to hold together. Sometimes you wish it had killed you.”
― Fiona Barton, The Child

“But Bella’s disappearance brought us together. Made us a real couple. I always said we needed a child.”
― Fiona Barton, The Widow

“Funny how she keeps using my name. Like a nurse. Or a con man.”
― Fiona Barton, The Widow

“Who really knows someone else? You can scratch the skin, but you never get to the meat of someone else. Into their bones.”
― Fiona Barton, The Child

“Funny things, birthdays. Everyone seems to love them, but I dread them—the buildup, the pressure to be happy, to have a good time, the disappointment when I don’t.”
― Fiona Barton, The Widow

“Nothing out of place. Normal to the point of abnormal.”
― Fiona Barton, The Widow

“neighbors’ doors, but no one had seen him”
― Fiona Barton, The Widow

“Dangerous to think you know too much, sometimes, because who really knows someone else? You can scratch the skin, but you never get to the meat of someone else. Into their bones.”
― Fiona Barton, The Child

“hate seeing myself without warning. Don’t recognize myself sometimes. You think you know what you look like and there is this stranger looking at you. It can frighten me.”
― Fiona Barton, The Child

“Wednesday’s child is full of woe. The”
― Fiona Barton, The Widow

“Glen didn’t really figure in my plans—he wouldn’t have approved, and I didn’t want those pursed lips wrecking my daydreams.”
― Fiona Barton, The Widow

“she walked in, dark suit and black mood stark against the white tablecloths.”
― Fiona Barton, The Widow

“I didn’t think the police would see me in the middle of all those hundreds of names, but, of course, they see everything.”
― Fiona Barton, The Widow

“Bărbații urăsc să te agăți de ei. Face să-ți piară tot cheful.”
― Fiona Barton, The Child

“When you’re talking to real people—people without an ego or something to sell—it can be complete exposure of one person to another, an intense intimacy that excludes everyone and everything else,”
― Fiona Barton, The Widow

“And we were in too deep for me to walk away. I’d lied for him. It”
― Fiona Barton, The Widow

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― Fiona Barton, The Suspect

“As long as you live, there’s always something waiting; and even if it’s bad, and you know it’s bad, what can you do? You can’t stop living. —TRUMAN CAPOTE, IN COLD BLOOD”
― Fiona Barton, Local Gone Missing

“I realize that my memories...are like one of those home movies, where a jerky camera records slices of the action, then breaks off suddenly before picking up again at another point. There are gaps. Gaping holes.”
― Fiona Barton, The Child

“Poor little thing,’she said out loud. Her head was suddenly full of her own babies –Jake and Freddie, born two years apart but known as ‘the boys’in family shorthand –as sturdy toddlers, schoolboys in football kit, surly teenagers and now adults. Well, almost. She smiled to herself. Kate could remember the moment she saw each of them for the first time: red, slippery bodies; crumpled, too- big skin; blinking eyes staring up from her chest, and her feeling that she had known their faces for ever. How could anyone kill a baby?”
― Fiona Barton, The Child

“tied the knot with a Charles Herbert Williams in 2009 at Islington Town Hall. He’d taken her name.”
― Fiona Barton, Local Gone Missing