Sue Fortin > Quotes

“You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice.”
― Sue Fortin, The Girl Who Lied

“Sometimes the coldest places are not in the midst of winter, when your”
― Sue Fortin, The Cuckoo

“I realise that love isn’t painful. It’s the not having love that hurts. The rejection. The betrayal. The loneliness. They hurt. Love doesn’t. The”
― Sue Fortin, The Girl Who Lied

“Well, it’s been a long time. You don’t know each other as adults. Sometimes these reunions don’t always work out the way we expect.’ ‘You sound very negative about her.’ I move from his embrace and begin undressing. I always look forward to getting out of the skirt and blouse of my working day and into my comfy tracky bottoms and T-shirt.”
― Sue Fortin, The Cuckoo

“Oh to have small kids. Life was less of a worry then. At least you knew where they were and had some control over life. The bigger the kids, the bigger the worry. Whoever came out with that pearl of wisdom was one hundred per cent on the money.”
― Sue Fortin, The Missing Wife

“You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice. Chapter 20 I feel flat.”
― Sue Fortin, The Girl Who Lied

“and peep in the open door of Molly’s bedroom. The five-year-old”
― Sue Fortin, The Girl Who Lied

“Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: You are my sun, my moon and all my stars’ E. E. Cummings”
― Sue Fortin, The Girl Who Lied

“Not really,’ she says.”
― Sue Fortin, The Cuckoo

“Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.’ Desmond Tutu”
― Sue Fortin, The Girl Who Lied

“The avarice, the hunger for materialistic possessions and the dependency upon alcohol had gradually become stronger and stronger. And now, it was the sum total of what she was.”
― Sue Fortin, Closing In

“realise that love isn’t painful. It’s the not having love that hurts. The rejection. The betrayal. The loneliness. They hurt. Love doesn’t.”
― Sue Fortin, The Girl Who Lied

“It took the American authorities nearly a week to find Alice, and then another four days to confirm her identity through DNA testing. The grave, as the officer referred to the shallow trough in the ground where Alice was found, was in the middle of a particularly dense part of the area, several metres away from the trail. Walkers, tourists, horse riders and beach- goers had all passed within a stone’s throw of Alice, but not one had noticed her. It makes me sad and guilty that I was so close to her and never knew it.”
― Sue Fortin, The Cuckoo

“Enquanto continuamos a passear pelo cais penso em como é surpreendente que duas pessoas possam ter lembranças completamente diferentes de uma mesma experiência partilhada.”
― Sue Fortin, Sister, Sister

“Às vezes, os lugares mais escuros não se encontram na negra escuridão da noite, quando a lua está tapada pelas nuvens, ou quando, de olhos fechados, seguimos o movimento dos raios de cor que dançam atrás das pálpebras; às vezes, os lugares mais escuros encontram-se com os olhos bem abertos. Quando o sol brilha cintilante e a poeira flutua nos raios de luz.”
― Sue Fortin, Sister, Sister