Lisa Hall > Quotes

“Things happen; people have different experiences that change the way they look at the world. Sometimes you just have to accept that there’s nothing you can do. Sometimes friendships just naturally come to an end.’ Radu”
― Lisa Hall, Between You and Me

“Just like when your daughter tries to kill herself, the best thing to do afterwards is just sweep it all under the carpet and never speak of it again.”
― Lisa Hall, Tell Me No Lies

“me.”
― Lisa Hall, Eight Years of Lies

“anxiously”
― Lisa Hall, Between You and Me

“when a slap almost feels like a reward – and I’m thankful that it wasn’t something worse, that”
― Lisa Hall, Between You and Me

“around”
― Lisa Hall, Between You and Me

“Honestly, Lila, it’s fine. I promise I’m not concerned about it in the slightest. It’s just odd, that’s all, that I saw you, then when I woke up the posy was on the doorstep and I just immediately assumed you had left it for me.’ I brush her concern away as best that I can, although inside my mind is racing, fearful that the one person I don’t want to find me has found me.”
― Lisa Hall, Tell Me No Lies

“turns”
― Lisa Hall, Between You and Me

“sick on the stairs. An actual nightmare. One of them actually had the nerve to tell me that he thought I was ‘too controlling’ of Sal – he soon shut up once I told him I knew he had slept with his lecturer and did he want me to let the head of department at the uni know? It’s amazing what information you can pick up when everyone else around you has had too much to drink, while you stay sober – that and the fact that the lock on his bedroom door was incredibly easy to pick. Once I had Sal moved into my place, I could decide who Sal saw, where Sal went, everything. I could keep Sal with me, all night, every night. There’s nothing controlling about it – it’s just keeping an eye on your other half. ‘It seems like a long time ago now.’ I smile at Sal, ‘And here we are still, together, despite it all. Together through thick and thin, that’s us, Sal. We don’t need anyone else, you know that. I love you”
― Lisa Hall, Between You and Me

“you can switch from calm and loving to enraged and furious within a split second. I know as soon as I open my eyes to see you standing over me that I’m going to regret sitting down for five minutes’ peace, remembering that I haven’t tidied the garden before stopping for a moment. When we returned from the beach Maggie was lively after her nap in the car and headed straight outside to play while I prepared us some dinner. She spent the rest of the afternoon in the garden, sitting in the sandpit playing dolls. Exhaustion had kicked in again by the time we had eaten and I ended”
― Lisa Hall, Between You and Me

“me”
― Lisa Hall, Between You and Me

“the”
― Lisa Hall, Between You and Me

“door slams shut and no one else leaves the building. There’s been no sign of the barmaid, or of my friend, Kev the bouncer. She must have”
― Lisa Hall, Eight Years of Lies

“more, so why should I give him my hard-earned money?”
― Lisa Hall, Between You and Me

“longer”
― Lisa Hall, Eight Years of Lies

“and”
― Lisa Hall, Between You and Me