Laura Elliot > Quotes

“Galumphing! Why does her mother always make her feel so hefty?”
― Laura Elliot, Stolen Child

“Fear is weakness. To show it is advantageous to the accuser.”
― Laura Elliot, Guilty

“Revenge has a strange taste, not sweet, nor nasty, just unpalatable, like prison food.”
― Laura Elliot, Guilty

“He sat most days on the Liffey boardwalk and thought about death, as Dominick must have done in those final weeks. He could easily acquire the tools he needed–a rope, a blade, tablets, a river–but death required energy and planning. He seemed incapable of doing anything that would stir him to action. Loss was a palsy shivering through him. It could not be endured. He took the bottle of whiskey from his backpack and drank from the neck.”
― Laura Elliot, Guilty

“Declarations of love… what a way to end a marriage.”
― Laura Elliot, The Betrayal

“Unhealthy living is such a simple move to make. A slippery slope isn’t even involved, just a quick tumble over the edge of caring.”
― Laura Elliot, After the Wedding

“Coping in small spaces is habit-forming.”
― Laura Elliot, The Betrayal

“The past does not heal. That’s the cruellest myth of all. It lies in abeyance until time pulls the trigger on memory.”
― Laura Elliot, The Betrayal

“The graffiti on display was a microcosm of the world outside. Undying vows of love, initials entwined. Hatreds twisted into tight, hard angles. Flourishes that promised to save humanity. Hammer fists that threatened to destroy it.”
― Laura Elliot, Guilty

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― Laura Elliot, Stolen Child

“Perception makes a lot of noise and the truth can get lost in the hubbub.”
― Laura Elliot, Guilty

“A teenager going out at night without her phone was akin to a snail leaving the shelter of its protective shell.”
― Laura Elliot, Guilty

“Hell was his dead niece whose disappearance had shattered everything he had taken for granted: trust, love, friendship, family bonds.”
― Laura Elliot, Guilty

“sumac, saffron, grains of paradise, amchur powder, carom seeds, cardamom;”
― Laura Elliot, The Wife Before Me

“When does an idea become a plan, he wondered; a plan turn to action and gain an irreversible thrust? Like a snake, he was shedding his old skin, and feeling lighter with each sloughing.”
― Laura Elliot, Guilty

“scratches all over it. Ellie said he was a retired undertaker and Isobel shuddered every time she saw him driving his hearse up the”
― Laura Elliot, The Silent House

“of”
― Laura Elliot, The Thorn Girl

“The same nightmare. No matter how often it was repeated, Amelia could never succeed in escaping the horror that came with it. Sometimes she was an adult, sometimes a teenager, but, more often, she was five years old again.”
― Laura Elliot, The Wife Before Me

“Your end game must always be crystal clear before you even reach the starting line.”
― Laura Elliot, After the Wedding

“The relationship over but the dependency on togetherness too ingrained to allow for separation.”
― Laura Elliot, The Betrayal

“Beginning again when you have lost everything is painful. Mistakes are easy to make. I allowed my mistakes to drag me down into a very dark place. Don’t go there,”
― Laura Elliot, Guilty

“You had nothing to do with it, Peter. Sara died to escape from herself.”
― Laura Elliot, Sleep Sister

“How sad is that? To fall for a cliché … but love ruled my heart over my head”
― Laura Elliot, Stolen Child

“It must be wonderful to know yourself so well that when you feel the touch of happiness you can claim it as your right.”
― Laura Elliot, Sleep Sister

“I’ve been too long on this earth to believe there is such a thing as platonic friendship between a man and a woman.”
― Laura Elliot, Stolen Child

“He never sleeps at night, or so he tells her, staying awake with crosswords and books of poetry in case death comes calling in the small hours to catch him unawares.”
― Laura Elliot, Guilty

“Revealing secrets gave them life. They mutated and were transformed once they belonged to someone else”
― Laura Elliot, Guilty

“She could feel a migraine coming on, she’d said. Noreen’s migraines were regular occurrences and had the power to stop all awkward questions.”
― Laura Elliot, The Thorn Girl

“She regains her balance and manages to walk steadily from the room without his help. Her skin feels electrified. Over the years, she had learned techniques to withstand the feeling but tonight it has the upper hand. She shivers, a walking-over-her-grave shudder that comes from nowhere, as mindless fears threaten to overcome her.”
― Laura Elliot, After the Wedding

“Knock Knock. Who’s there? B-4. B-4 who? Let me in B-4 I freeze to death. Ha Ha Ha.”
― Laura Elliot, Fragile Lies