Rona Halsall > Quotes

“What happened to teenagers? It was the weirdest thing. One minute they were all cuddly children wanting attention, the next it was like you had just stepped out of the grave and they couldn’t get away from you fast enough.”
― Rona Halsall, One Mistake

“This was her world, where she'd felt safe bringing up a family, but she had a horrible feeling the past was about to repeat itself, rupturing the life she'd crafted, and there wasn't a thing she could do to stop it”
― Rona Halsall, One Mistake

“Information is power, she thought as she walked away. And everyone needs an insurance policy, don't they?”
― Rona Halsall, One Mistake

“there was no way on earth they’d be able to share, being chalk and cheese in their concepts of what constituted tidiness.”
― Rona Halsall, The Bigamist

“Things had fundamentally changed, and like tectonic plates shifting on the surface of the earth, her world and Matt's no longer fitted together. They were sliding in different directions and she had no idea how to pull them back together”
― Rona Halsall, One Mistake

“We’re allowed to have dreams, you know, and in reality, not everything works out how we want it to. Life has a habit of throwing hard choices at us when we’re least able to deal with them.”
― Rona Halsall, The Guest Room

“Funny how life had a way of slapping you round the face with things you said you'd never do”
― Rona Halsall, One Mistake

“Too much change at once gave her a mental paralysis, a state of mind where she was incapable of knowing what it was she actually wanted.”
― Rona Halsall, The Ex Boyfriend

“thing”
― Rona Halsall, The Bigamist

“It felt surreal thinking about it now, as if it had happened in a parallel universe, and she wondered how she’d got here, to this place in her life where she felt like she was a chameleon, colouring herself to fit in, her true self unseen by the people she shared her life with.”
― Rona Halsall, The Ex Boyfriend

“The thoughts in her head became the thoughts in his head which he then made into something tangible and real. How many people were so connected? It seemed like some sort of magic. But that was love, wasn’t it? That powerful draw towards someone on a level you didn’t understand before you even knew them properly.”
― Rona Halsall, The Bigamist

“and scooted round to the woman’s feet, tying her legs together with her fleece jacket in case she came round and started struggling. Then she”
― Rona Halsall, The Missing Sister

“They drank their tea in silence, Sara thinking that her life was veering out of control, the people around her dancing to a tune she couldn't hear, moving to a rhythm she couldn't grasp”
― Rona Halsall, One Mistake

“She’d read that narcissistic people did that to you. They flipped everything round to make it your fault. Made their failings, your failings. Re-framed”
― Rona Halsall, The Fiancé

“Her mum was one of the ‘keep calm and carry on’ brigade who kept her feelings to herself most of the time and took whatever problems life threw at her in her stride. She hadn’t understood why Becca couldn’t do the same.”
― Rona Halsall, The Ex Boyfriend