Susi Holliday > Quotes

“He’d had to look away from her pleading eyes as he’d smashed her head with a rock before pushing her over the side.”
― Susi Holliday, The Hike

“Few circumstances are more afflicting than a discovery of perfidy in those whom we have trusted. —Ann Radcliffe, The Romance of the Forest (1791)”
― Susi Holliday, The Hike

“James”
― Susi Holliday, The Last Resort

“Mind over matter, take the first choice – not the latter, too much sleep makes you fatter.”
― Susi Holliday, The Last Resort

“to what’s happened.”
― Susi Holliday, The Hike

“Pigalle is also drawn to the fish tank. He often spends time just watching them. Swimming back and forth, around in circles. No clue where they’ve been just a minute before. He envies them their short memories, because sometimes memories can break you.”
― Susi Holliday, The Hike

“Small biometric devices that can be worn on the body,”
― Susi Holliday, Substitute

“He looked away. ‘She deserved better.”
― Susi Holliday, The Hike

“once the button is pressed, an amber light will flash at the top. That’s the first activation.”
― Susi Holliday, Substitute

“Timeo is modern technology . . . and what we can reveal is that memory-mining and neural pathway programming are at the very forefront of our research . . . and now you specially selected few are part of this exciting research and development pipeline.”
― Susi Holliday, The Last Resort

“She would have known that their dad always drove too fast down that private road.”
― Susi Holliday, The Hike

“Hope. It's an emotion that you want to keep hold of, but one that can destroy the most.”
― Susi Holliday, The Deaths of December

“She’d had enough of people walking all over her. Thinking they’d get away with it because she was kind. Well, maybe being kind was overrated. She’d been played for a fool by all the people she’d thought she was close to, and it had caused her to harden her shell.”
― Susi Holliday, The Hike

“There was a window. He hadn’t noticed it before, as it was boarded up.”
― Susi Holliday, The Hike

“He stood up quickly, pulling the thin mattress off the cot bed. He swung it hard, and it flew across the room, crashing into the door. He grabbed hold of his hair, twisting it in his fists. And then he screamed, loud, long.”
― Susi Holliday, The Hike

“We’ve got a games designer, a gossip columnist, a photographer. We’ve got finance and medical. And there’s me – a well-known influencer. All of these things hang together. But then there’s you.’ ‘She’s right,’ Brenda says, impressed by Tiggy now that she’s come out of her shell and made these deductions. Not such a pathetic little creature after all. ‘So where do you think you fit into this, Amelia?’ James says gently.”
― Susi Holliday, The Last Resort