Sarah A. Denzil > Quotes

“Monsters are men and women just like us, and they have the ability to hide their true face.”
― Sarah A. Denzil, Silent Child

“No one wants to believe they are weak, but we all have weakness inside us. We have strength, too, but there are times when the circumstances in our lives are so overwhelming that we easily succumb to that weakness”
― Sarah A. Denzil, Silent Child

“I’ve heard it said that you can only control yourself and how you behave in any given setting. You can never control the circumstances around you. You can’t control how other people react, only how you, yourself, act. That’s the great tragedy of life. One moment everything is perfect and the next it’s all in tatters because of the circumstances happening all around you. And what are you supposed to think when your child is taken from you? That it was fate? God? Bad luck? How are you supposed to move on? When”
― Sarah A. Denzil, Silent Child

“No one should regret loving and trusting another human being. Yes, sometimes we direct our love and trust to the wrong person, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t have done it at all. Hearts should be protected, but they shouldn’t be forced to close.”
― Sarah A. Denzil, Silent Child

“Scorned. As if the jealousy of a lover could ever compete with the ferocity of a mother.”
― Sarah A. Denzil, Silent Child

“But they don’t know what it’s truly like to lose control, and I’m not talking about my emotions, but about my life. I lost control of my life. Everything around me fell apart while I remained the impotent bystander. I’ve”
― Sarah A. Denzil, Silent Child

“No one wants to believe they are weak, but we all have weakness inside us. We have strength, too, but there are times when the circumstances in our lives are so overwhelming that we easily succumb to that weakness.”
― Sarah A. Denzil, Silent Child

“Never say you hate someone or something unless you really mean it, because hate is not finding a presenter on the telly annoying, or losing your temper with a sibling—it’s an all-consuming living thing that starts in your bowels and infects your blood until it blackens your heart. And”
― Sarah A. Denzil, Silent Child

“If you get to live your life without ever experiencing hatred, then count yourself lucky.”
― Sarah A. Denzil, Silent Child

“I thought, for one brief, tiny instant, that if the car kept going, if it hit my mum—if that car had mowed down my mother right in front of me, everything would end. She would be gone. She would no longer be suffering with this disease, with the pieces of her mind disappearing bit by bit. And I would be free.  ”
― Sarah A. Denzil, The Broken Ones

“I lost control of my life. Everything around me fell apart while I remained the impotent bystander. I’ve”
― Sarah A. Denzil, Silent Child

“If you ever find yourself sitting alone with your mind on a loop of all the worst things that have ever happened to you, then you’ll know exactly what I mean, and the only thing that turns it off is alcohol.”
― Sarah A. Denzil, One for Sorrow

“How do mothers do that? How do they always manage to slip in a criticism as easily as saying hello?”
― Sarah A. Denzil, The Broken Ones

“You and me. We’ll be a team again, like we were when we lived at Nana’s house, remember? We fought crime, you and me. You were Superman, obviously, you had the cape. I was just your sidekick but you made sure we caught the baddies every time. We’re going to do that again, I promise.” And”
― Sarah A. Denzil, Silent Child

“No one likes to be ordinary. Everyone wants to be different. People try so hard to be different, that they end up all being the same.”
― Sarah A. Denzil, Saving April

“All the men I’ve known find the mildest of inconveniences intolerable while women adapt to almost anything,”
― Sarah A. Denzil, We Play Games

“The more I thought about it, the more I realised that we are all monsters. Yes. Us. We’re monsters. We enjoy reading about these stories. We’re the voyeurs of human suffering.”
― Sarah A. Denzil, Silent Child

“If you get to live your life without ever experiencing hatred, then count yourself lucky. Count your blessings. Hate isn’t something to crave or wish for. Never say you hate someone or something unless you really mean it, because hate is not finding a presenter on the telly annoying, or losing your temper with a sibling—it’s an all-consuming living thing that starts in your bowels and infects your blood until it blackens your heart. And I hated myself. That’s the worst kind of hate.”
― Sarah A. Denzil, Silent Child

“There were two knives. One you had stuck through the painting, and the other was slitting your wrist. Remember that? Remember how I found you in your mother’s house? That was what you were before I saved you. I saved you. If it wasn’t for me you’d be dead. You wouldn’t even be with Aiden right now.”  ”
― Sarah A. Denzil, Silent Child

“Aiden 24/7 since his release. You need a break.” At that moment, a few hours away from Aiden sounded like pure bliss. As much as I wanted complete control”
― Sarah A. Denzil, Silent Child

“People are multi-layered. Anyone can have a private side that verges on the dark and dangerous.”
― Sarah A. Denzil, Silent Child

“suffocating”
― Sarah A. Denzil, Silent Child

“Long vines reached up trellises, plump flowers hanging from them, and a tall sunflower propped up by garden canes, its wide head looming over mine.”
― Sarah A. Denzil, The Housemaid

“People talk about losing control of themselves all the time, whether it’s from drink, drugs, passion, or anger. But they don’t know what it’s truly like to lose control, and I’m not talking about my emotions, but about my life. I lost control of my life. Everything around me fell apart while I remained the impotent bystander.”
― Sarah A. Denzil, Silent Child

“People are multi-layered. Anyone can have a private side that verges on the dark and dangerous. Your doctor could be a sadist. Your primary school teacher could be a paedophile. Your beauty therapist could be a murderer. It could be anything.”
― Sarah A. Denzil, Silent Child

“Fighting means feeling the pain. Fighting means facing the fear and doing it anyway.”
― Sarah A. Denzil, The Nice Guy

“How could I have fallen in love with him?” “Did you though? Wasn’t it just the security he offered that you fell in love with? If you were really in love with him, would there have been this spark between us?”
― Sarah A. Denzil, Silent Child

“There often comes a time when a person must take control of their own life. No one else is going to do it. Difficult decisions will be made, and those decisions will reveal the true mettle of the individual within.”
― Sarah A. Denzil, The Nice Guy

“life. I lost control of my life. Everything around me fell apart while I remained the impotent bystander. I’ve”
― Sarah A. Denzil, Silent Child

“I wanted a wild, brave child. I wanted that for him; I wanted him to grow into a strong man with a penchant for exploring. I’d pushed my wanderlust onto him. But I hadn’t wanted this. I hadn’t wanted him to wander away from safety during the most dangerous flood in over a hundred years. “You’ve”
― Sarah A. Denzil, Silent Child