Isabel Ashdown > Quotes

“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters’ Albert Einstein”
― Isabel Ashdown, Little Sister

“To have never loved her, never held her, never felt the pain of her loss, like a limb being wrenched from the body, the ache of it endless and raw.”
― Isabel Ashdown, Little Sister

“Somehow I manage to be both invisible and horribly stand-out all at once. I sometimes think this lack in me is the source of everything that is wrong in my life, every lurch of anxiety, every seizure of fear. How do you acquire that good, ‘easy’ thing? Is it something you can be taught? Is it something I could learn now, given a fresh chance to mix in the world?”
― Isabel Ashdown, Beautiful Liars

“Mum was a constant presence, the archetypal stay-at-home mum, always there to greet us after school, to help us with our homework and put dinner on the table at six. I remember my friends saying how lucky we were, that we didn’t know how awful it was to have a working mum, to go home to an empty house.”
― Isabel Ashdown, Little Sister

“What alters in those teen years, to make us so reckless and brave? Is it a chemical change, something we have no control over that makes risk-takers of the most sensible of us?”
― Isabel Ashdown, Beautiful Liars

“How the mind plays tricks, Martha thinks now, the way it effortlessly reveals useless snippets like this while so often concealing the memories we seek.”
― Isabel Ashdown, Beautiful Liars

“I know it is a death drop; I know it is a long way down. I can’t say I remember pushing him – but neither can I remember not pushing him.”
― Isabel Ashdown, Beautiful Liars

“You were perfect; unblemished. Innocent of ill thought, with a light that radiated from you like sunlight. You brought meaning to everything, and, with you in it, my world had become a warmer place.”
― Isabel Ashdown, Little Sister

“afterwards. How interesting it is, the way the mind works, the way it recalibrates difficult experiences, bestowing upon them a storybook quality so that we might shut the pages when it suits us and place them safely on the highest shelf.”
― Isabel Ashdown, Beautiful Liars

“Surely no one remembers everything that happened to them every day of their life. And how can we ever compare our powers of recall with those of someone else, when we can never live in each other’s heads, never really experience the same event, even when it’s a shared one.”
― Isabel Ashdown, Beautiful Liars