Araminta Hall > Quotes

“Everything is a game, V used to tell me; only stupid people forget that.”
― Araminta Hall, Our Kind of Cruelty

“You should never trust people who yearn to be something other than who they are.”
― Araminta Hall, Our Kind of Cruelty

“She doesn't know how easy it is to leave scars, how sometimes just a tiny brown oval will remain, but whenever you look at it you know why it's there.”
― Araminta Hall, Our Kind of Cruelty

“Sometimes what you think you want isn’t what you actually want. Sometimes the thing that makes you really happy is the thing you least expect.”
― Araminta Hall, Our Kind of Cruelty

“How can you love someone too much?’ She laughed. ‘In the same way you can love someone too little. It’s like the three bears’ beds, it’s very rare you get it just right.”
― Araminta Hall, Our Kind of Cruelty

“But my thoughts have always waited in darkened corners for me, watching for moments in which i am lulled into a false sense of security. Their favorite torture is to remind me of my solitude.”
― Araminta Hall, Our Kind of Cruelty

“Emptiness is such a familiar yet terrifying sensation for me, scorched into my physical memory so deep it drags me backward through time to when it wasn't in my power to feed myself. A time when I and no money, a time when I was alone even when my mother was with me. A time in which I couldn't make myself loveable and I didn't know to love. A time when it seemed as if I was never going to fill the deep all encompassing void in my soul.”
― Araminta Hall, Our Kind of Cruelty

“Some might say that’s not long enough to know you want to spend the rest of your life with someone, but I knew after ten minutes. Verity is quite simply the best thing that has ever happened to me.”
― Araminta Hall, Our Kind of Cruelty

“Maybe death is simply an act of equality.” “What do you mean?” “That nobody’s special when it comes to death, so it’s sort of like a leveling process.”
― Araminta Hall, Imperfect Women

“But underneath all that was also the knowledge that she wasn’t wrong for wanting something different. Women in this world are still expected to conform, even though it doesn’t seem like that anymore. You can be many things in this life, but a dissatisfied woman is not one of them. What’s wrong with you, men ask as they push forward, why aren’t you happy back there, why isn’t it enough? Pimps say it to their hookers in the same way rich men say it to their wives, in the same way bosses say it to their employees, in the same way fathers say it to mothers. Sometimes we just want something different.”
― Araminta Hall, Imperfect Women

“Perhaps everyone had been wrong; perhaps anger didn’t ruin a woman, perhaps it made her stronger.”
― Araminta Hall, Imperfect Women

“I mean, I spend all my life behaving like it's a bloody dress rehearsal, waiting for the real bit to start. And it's such a fucking waste.”
― Araminta Hall, Our Kind of Cruelty

“sorrow is a bit like sacrifice. We, as women, absorb it so others don’t have to. But then one day we stand back, and we say, enough, I have done my bit, let another person take this. So we pass it on, and the next woman steps forward and it all begins again. All our sorrows and sacrifices are small, ultimately, and that is a good thing. That is the way of the world.”
― Araminta Hall, Imperfect Women

“we have a responsibility to those who love us. That being loved makes us precious, and that means we have to take care of ourselves.”
― Araminta Hall, Imperfect Women

“Of course she’d understood for years now; she’d worked out long ago that families, unless they inhabit American TV shows, do not communicate when they speak.”
― Araminta Hall, Dot

“If I had been standing close enough I think I might have taken the heavy golden cross from the altar and smashed it against her head, in order to delve about in the red mess of her brains to try and understand what she meant by it all.”
― Araminta Hall, Our Kind of Cruelty

“Has anyone ever told you that they’re protecting you, or that they know you better than you know yourself, or that no one will ever love you like they do? Have you ever said those words? Consider what those sentiments mean. It’s all violence, when you think about it.”
― Araminta Hall, One of the Good Guys

“My tears were now so violent I could taste them. ‘I thought you were different.”
― Araminta Hall, Our Kind of Cruelty

“Happiness is so odd, don’t you think? I mean, sometimes we can mistake feelings for happiness or love, when they’re the exact opposite.”
― Araminta Hall, Our Kind of Cruelty

“The air felt like a kiss on your skin and there was a sense of anticipation in the atmosphere, almost as if you could feel the plants growing and the flowers blooming.”
― Araminta Hall, Our Kind of Cruelty

“Women, Eleanor thought, carry guilt and responsibility like a second skin, so much so it weighs them down and stops them from ever achieving quite everything they should. She knew also that a man faced with the true extent of a woman’s guilt only ever really thinks that she is mad;”
― Araminta Hall, Imperfect Women

“we do have a responsibility to take care of ourselves and to feel precious despite our failings. Because that’s how you learn there is no such thing as perfect.”
― Araminta Hall, Imperfect Women

“just as vibrant as mine. ‘Was she lying?’ he asked, like a threat. ‘Did you go more than once?’ ‘No,’ I answered. ‘It was just as she said.’ ‘Shame,’ Xander said, rubbing his temples like”
― Araminta Hall, Our Kind of Cruelty

“And what was perhaps more frightening than the fact that we never know others is the fact that we never know ourselves.”
― Araminta Hall, Imperfect Women

“I'm Susanne,' she said to me on our first meeting, 'but call me Suzi,' which wasn't too bad until I discovered she spelled it with an i . A y would have been too cozy for Suzi, too normal, too close to who she usually is. And you should never trust people who yearn to be something other than who they are.”
― Araminta Hall, Our Kind of Cruelty

“I’m a woman, which means I have to expect to be seen as an unlikable character.”
― Araminta Hall, One of the Good Guys

“...іноді насправді ти прагнеш геть не того, чого, як тобі здається, хочеш. Буває й таке, що щасливим тебе може зробити найнесподіваніше”
― Araminta Hall

“I think the reason I love tulips so much is because they give me such hope, the way they pop up so bright out of the ground just at the time when you’ve almost given up on the idea of seeing anything pretty ever again.”
― Araminta Hall, Imperfect Women

“Emptiness is such a familiar yet terrifying sensation for me, scorched into my physical memory so deep it drags me backward through time to when it wasn't in my power to feed myself. A time when I had no money, a time when I was alone even when my mother was with me. A time in which I couldn't make myself loveable and I didn't know to love. A time when it seemed as if I was never going to fill the deep all encompassing void in my soul.”
― Araminta Hall

“Nor do I believe there’s a couple out there who haven’t at some point thought about how much better it could be with someone else. But that’s all a fallacy. Even if you jack in the one you’ve got and replace them with a younger”
― Araminta Hall, Imperfect Women