T.M. Logan > Quotes

“A liar should have a good memory.”
― T.M. Logan, Lies

“It is better to know than not know.”
― T.M. Logan, Lies

“If you waited for the perfect time, you’d wait forever, so when you saw something you wanted, you had to go out there and take it. Sometimes you just had to trust your instincts and jump right in.”
― T.M. Logan, The Holiday

“Two is one, one is none.’ I had no idea what that meant. I”
― T.M. Logan, Lies

“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. —William Blake”
― T.M. Logan, The Holiday

“This is life, this is how it is. Life is not a roller coaster all the time, sometimes you have to just get on with it and look forward to the next good thing.”
― T.M. Logan, Lies

“Cats don’t need anyone, they can do fine on their own. They live in the moment and trust their eyes and ears, what they can see in front of them – I think we can all learn something from that.”
― T.M. Logan, Lies

“A truly good deed is one that is totally unselfish, without any hope or expectation of a reward. By its nature, a truly good deed cannot be repaid.”
― T.M. Logan, 29 Seconds

“Vertigo is not actually the fear of heights. Vertigo is the fear that when you are standing on the edge, you won’t be able to resist the urge to step off.”
― T.M. Logan, 29 Seconds

“If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves . . . Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus”
― T.M. Logan, 29 Seconds

“What need we fear who knows it when none can call our power to account? Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?”
― T.M. Logan, Lies

“Life is not fair, life is never fair. But self-pity is the purest poison if you let it take hold.”
― T.M. Logan, Trust Me

“Anyone who says violence never solved anything has forgotten about slavery, Hitler and World War Two.”
― T.M. Logan, 29 Seconds

“I switched to email and checked to see if there was anything from Farmer. Still nothing. I fired off an email asking for an update and pulled up Facebook to check Ryan’s feed. Above the wedding day pictures there was a new post about the 10K run he was doing with Abbie, and a link to their JustGiving page. I clicked on it. Their fundraising total was up to £4,390, not far off their target, and near the top of the donation listing I could see why – a £1,000 donation from George Fitzgerald a few weeks ago with the message ‘I always said you were amazing, Abbie. Wishing you all the luck in the world. G xxx’. Wow. I knew George was loaded but hadn’t anticipated he would go quite this far. His donation was the biggest single gift by some way, three times more than I had pledged.”
― T.M. Logan, The Catch

“Walls have ears in my experience.
- Kay Barber-Lomax”
― T.M. Logan, The Curfew

“Cats don't need anyone, they can do fine on their own. They live in the moment and trust their eyes and ears, what they can see in front of them - I think we can all learn something from that.”
― T M Logan

“herself gently opposite me. She’s in”
― T.M. Logan, The Holiday

“Small boys were like puppies. Both needed lots of exercise every day and had basically two gears: go and stop. They had to be walked every day; otherwise, they'd go stir-crazy and start tearing the house up.”
― T.M. Logan, Lies

“Sorry, don’t stop,’ Izzy said. ‘Didn’t mean to interrupt.”
― T.M. Logan, The Holiday

“What’s done cannot be undone.”
― T.M. Logan, Lies

“he began lobbing and smashing with practiced ease, putting his shots beyond my”
― T.M. Logan, The Catch

“She remembered getting what she was given by her parents, and being mostly happy with that. But now it seemed that every straightforward instruction she gave had the potential to turn into a bargain to be struck or a treat to be had.”
― T.M. Logan, 29 Seconds

“superor”
― T.M. Logan, The Catch

“And sometimes – just sometimes – maybe it was true that an impossible situation required an unthinkable solution.”
― T.M. Logan, 29 Seconds

“Zo veel leugens, Mel. Zo veel.'
'Ik weet het, en het spijt me verschrikkelijk. Toen ik er eenmaal mee begonnen was kon ik niet meer ophouden, alsof ik in een auto zat zonder remmen.'
Blz. 144”
― T.M. Logan, Lies

“But the barb of betrayal was buried deep, and it made my heart ache with sadness whenever I looked at her.”
― T.M. Logan, Lies

“I’ve avoided social media completely since it happened, gone cold turkey on my generation’s compulsion to share every event, every emotion, every success, every random thought, every half-funny conversation.”
― T.M. Logan, Lies

“stretcher”
― T.M. Logan, The Holiday

“Detective Inspector Rayner.’ She indicated her colleague, a slim black man at least ten years her junior with”
― T.M. Logan, 29 Seconds

“my phone. Ben. Mel. Our home number. A few others maybe. Nothing too suspicious. ‘OK,’ I said. ‘It seems the forensic data chaps are particularly interested in some internet searches they found on your phone.’ A stab of concern in my stomach. ‘What searches? I only got it on Saturday, and they took it away last night. Don’t remember using the browser once.’ ‘So you never did a Google search on the legal difference between murder and manslaughter?’ ‘No.’ ‘The definition in law of a crime of passion, and how a sentence might be reduced for that?’ ‘No.’ ‘How much blood or saliva is needed to make a DNA comparison? The location of the nearest landfill sites to your house?’ I shook my head, incredulous. ‘They found all of these on my phone?’ ‘So it seems.’ ‘I didn’t do those searches. There was no reason for”
― T.M. Logan, Lies