Clare Boyd > Quotes

“But you don’t ever hear me! I’m like white noise!”
― Clare Boyd, The Pretty One

“scolding”
― Clare Boyd, Three Secrets

“At our age, if you don’t wake up in pain, you’ve probably died in the night.’ She winked and laughed, adding, ‘You’re a long time dead!’ through another coughing fit.”
― Clare Boyd, The Pretty One

“So far today I had drunk six cups of tea. I should cut down, but it went so well with a crisis.”
― Clare Boyd, The Pretty One

“Some people love their dogs more than humans.”
― Clare Boyd, Her Closest Friend

“her needs were subsumed by his. Always second in line, she could not live a day without contemplating his contentment first. If he was unhappy, she could not locate her own happiness. If he was sad, she was too. But their love, albeit unhealthy, ran deeper than the more prosaic, run-of-the-mill bonds of mutual respect and equality that the majority of people shared.”
― Clare Boyd, My Perfect Wife

“She seemed to have that undefinable quality that men fell for, that marriageable ordinariness – or was it safeness? – that Naomi certainly had, that Sophie did not.”
― Clare Boyd, Her Closest Friend

“Bombs or Armageddon or a plague or some other world-ending nightmare seemed preferable to the admission she was about to make to Naomi.”
― Clare Boyd, Her Closest Friend

“to do was to go over there”
― Clare Boyd, Little Liar

“Jobs for life are more like jobs till fifty, these days,’ Charlie said,”
― Clare Boyd, Her Closest Friend

“It wasn’t true. It didn’t get easier, it just changed into a feeling that was lower-level, that was just about bearable, that you could just about live through.”
― Clare Boyd, Her Closest Friend

“There are people who have money and there are people who are rich. Coco Chanel”
― Clare Boyd, My Perfect Wife

“Out-out doesn’t feel out-out enough until we see that blue light of morning filter through the windows.”
― Clare Boyd, The Pretty One