Mark Edwards > Quotes

“If I enter a house with no books it makes me uneasy. I wonder what’s wrong with the people who live there.”
― Mark Edwards, The Retreat

“We used to say that we loved each other but, looking back, I think we said it more because we felt we should.”
― Mark Edwards, Because She Loves Me

“This was life, really lived, really experienced, a passage of magic that would flash before our eyes when we died.”
― Mark Edwards, Follow You Home

“Every dark space felt threatening, as if it contained and concealed something horrifying. My imagination filled in the details that my eyes couldn’t see, not just memories from a hundred horror movies and books, but something deeper in my brain, a line that stretched back thousands of years, fear of the dark woods hard-wired into me.”
― Mark Edwards, Follow You Home

“She took out an Ian McEwan book, flicked through it and said, ‘I love this. I can’t bear people who don’t read. I think they must have something wrong with them, don’t you?’ ‘I guess so.’ ‘Books, music, art, films.’ She held up her glass. ‘Good wine. It’s what life’s all about.’ I held up my own glass. ‘To books, music, art, films and wine.”
― Mark Edwards, Because She Loves Me

“monsters don’t only live in faraway forests. They are just as likely to live next door.”
― Mark Edwards, Follow You Home

“In the old days – or so I’ve heard – you could go round someone’s place and rifle through their record collection, take a look at their bookcases. Now you have to scroll through their iTunes or click on their Kindle.”
― Mark Edwards, Because She Loves Me

“In cities, after all, you are always within screaming distance of a psychopath.”
― Mark Edwards, The Magpies

“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.”
― Mark Edwards, The Devil's Work

“Too Tired To Argue. If she ever wrote a book about parenting, that would be the title.”
― Mark Edwards, In Her Shadow

“What if I fall? Oh, my darling, but what if you FLY?”
― Mark Edwards, The Retreat

“We ran all the way into town. We didn’t talk. We didn’t look back.”
― Mark Edwards, Follow You Home

“Bare, gnarly trees scratched at the star-pricked sky, whispered to me of a thousand childhood fairy tales and adult horror movies.”
― Mark Edwards, Because She Loves Me

“You’re mad. Rats don’t try and get in through closed doors!”
― Mark Edwards, The Magpies

“She was both his compass and his map, and he would be lost on his own. Lost in the darkness.”
― Mark Edwards, The Magpies

“PTSD is where your brain remains in psychological shock, unable to shake off or move on from what happened to you.”
― Mark Edwards, Follow You Home

“I faced down my fears.”
― Mark Edwards, Follow You Home

“One o’clock was a more civilised time to have lunch, but noon was acceptable.”
― Mark Edwards, Follow You Home

“If I could sleep, could get just one decent night’s rest, I was certain I would feel better, that I would be able to function again.”
― Mark Edwards, Follow You Home

“Witches were just clever women that men couldn’t tame, weren’t they? Women who wouldn’t conform.”
― Mark Edwards, The Retreat

“She had seen Daniel here earlier. He had come onto the ward, sat beside her bed. As soon as she saw him coming she had shut her eyes, pretending to be asleep. She knew exactly what he would say and she didn’t want to hear it. Seeing him reminded her of why she felt like this.”
― Mark Edwards, Follow You Home

“Some people just don’t appreciate what they’ve got.’ Karen raised an eyebrow.”
― Mark Edwards, The Retreat

“And soon they would be living together. They would be sharing a bedroom and he would live with her fragrance – as part of the background of his life – every day. Breath and hair and skin and sweat and all the atoms and particles”
― Mark Edwards, The Magpies

“as if racial and national differences were a stupid concept invented by adults.”
― Mark Edwards, Here To Stay

“There is always a solution that can be found through logic and clear thought.”
― Mark Edwards, Follow You Home

“I was trying to ignore it, thinking it was just something that would pass.’ ‘Typical bloke.’ ‘Yeah. I would rather die a slow, painful death than go to see a doctor. Eventually, I Googled it,”
― Mark Edwards, Because She Loves Me

“Tonight, she wore shorts, because it was hot, not because she enjoyed being stared at.”
― Mark Edwards, Follow You Home

“For driven people like her, it could always be better. That was the great tragedy of being ambitious. You were never happy.”
― Mark Edwards, In Her Shadow

“The more people we can turn on to the joy of reading, the better the world will be.”
― Mark Edwards, The Retreat

“Could I have a glass of wine without food?”
― Mark Edwards, Follow You Home