Araminta Hall > Quotes

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

“Everything is a game, V used to tell me; only stupid people forget that.”
― 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

“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

“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

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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“It’s funny,” she said, “but lots of the countries I’ve worked in, which we consider third world, value domesticity very highly. Unmarried young women are usually at the bottom of the social scale, but mothers are almost worshipped.”
― Araminta Hall, Imperfect Women

“But the truth is, men who want to protect women should never be trusted because we only feel the impulse to protect the things we think of as weaker than ourselves.”
― Araminta Hall, One of the Good Guys

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

“When my children were little and told me I was mean because I shouted at them about their manners, or told them they couldn’t eat sweets for breakfast, or all the other things that make mothers cross, I used to tell them that it takes so much more effort to be stern than it does just to say yes—that if I wanted an easy life, I would let them do all they asked. But I also told them I loved them too much to always say yes, that I took the time to scold them and argue with them so they would learn what was right or wrong. Anger is often not cruelty, Eleanor, it is more often love.”
― Araminta Hall, Imperfect Women

“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

“There doesn't seem to be an adequate answer beyond the fact that none of us is just one thing. Especially not women, who so often contain the burden of multitudes.”
― Araminta Hall, One of the Good Guys

“Fear is always biding its time, waiting for an opportunity to assure us of its dominance”
― 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

“We’ve become confused about where to place the emphasis when it comes to death. A lot of death has no meaning. Sometimes planes just drop out of skies, or a friend gets hit over the head by a mugger, or parents trip and fall down the stairs. We live in a world now where there has to be an answer to everything. We wonder about something and Google tells us the answer, but death isn’t always like that.”
― Araminta Hall, Imperfect Women

“simply wanted to know her—as in what was in her head, not what she represented.”
― Araminta Hall, Imperfect Women

“Seagulls were shrieking outside, and the wind had picked up again, rushing through the trees in the garden and rattling the windows, so it sounded like a million women screaming.”
― Araminta Hall, One of the Good Guys