Liz Webb > Quotes

“I was endlessly tortured on the rack of my family - on one end was my destroyed dad who I knew was innocent, and on the other, my belligerent brother, vehement that dad was guilty. With one person I loved murdered and the other two people I loved hating each other, it became excruciating to think, to feel, to even function. I was a seriously fucked-up Goldilocks: Mother Bear was dead and Baby Bear hated Daddy Bear - nothing could feel 'just right' ever again”
― Liz Webb, The Daughter

“Actual confrontation is never the same as imagined confrontation”
― Liz Webb, The Daughter

“How can I use my thoughts to think about whether I'm being rational, if my thoughts are themselves irrational?”
― Liz Webb, The Daughter

“Over the years, whenever I asked how he was doing, he would nod then smile with his mouth, but his eyes were those of an animal that had been run over, its broken body and its useless legs twitching behind it. Pain is pain whatever your age and sex, but there is a particular agony when an older man loses his position, his goals, the respect of his peers - a raw bruising marinated in testosterone”
― Liz Webb, The Daughter

“Everyone else has had power over me with their dirty little secrets. Now I have secrets and will hug them to me till I decide how best to use them for full devastating effect”
― Liz Webb, The Daughter

“Of course - I should never think things can't get worse. There's always a trapdoor at the bottom of the barrel you're scraping.”
― Liz Webb, The Saved