M.J. Arlidge > Quotes

“Trust is a fragile thing—hard to earn, easy to lose.”
― M.J. Arlidge, Eeny Meeny

“There are countless moments in the average life when you have to decide whether to open yourself up or bury yourself deep. In love, at work, among your family, with friends, there are moments when you have to decide whether you are ready to reveal your true self.”
― M.J. Arlidge, Eeny Meeny

“Amy would never shoot anyone, least of all Sam. She’d never even held a gun before. This wasn’t America.”
― M.J. Arlidge, Eeny Meeny

“The ties that bind a parent to a child can never be broken; however awful their relationship might be, those ties just are.”
― M.J. Arlidge, The Doll's House

“It is amazing what hate can do.”
― M.J. Arlidge, Hide and Seek

“Men were supposed to be dissociative about sex. Able to turn off their emotions and think with their dick. But Mark had never been like that.”
― M.J. Arlidge, Eeny Meeny

“It’s the injuries inflicted by your own flesh and blood that cut the deepest.”
― M.J. Arlidge, Love Me Not

“Een gemiddeld leven kent talloze momenten waarop je moet beslissen of je je blootgeeft of diep wegkruipt. In de liefde, op het werk, bij je familie, met vrienden; er zijn momenten waarop je moet beslissen of je bereid bent je ware zelf te onthullen.”
― M.J. Arlidge

“Vier cijfertjes die hen scheiden van de vrijheid.”
― MJ Arlidge

“Maybe it was impossible to know somebody else in this life. Perhaps it was only in death that one’s true self was revealed.”
― M.J. Arlidge, Little Boy Blue

“Sanderson suppressed a smile. She loved watching Helen when she had her game face on. Because she was tall, athletic and pretty, people thought she would be genial and pleasant – and often she was. But there was a steel within Helen and an unwavering focus that unnerved people under interrogation. They could find no way to distract her, no purchase of any kind with which to drag the interrogation to areas where they felt more secure. She looked at you with such intensity and such purpose – Sanderson had seen many a criminal give up the ghost before they had even begun.”
― M.J. Arlidge, The Doll's House

“There is a fantasy that sustains you when you’re on active service. It’s the dream that sustains every soldier when he's stuck in some godforsaken dustbowl being shot at and shouted at. It’s the fantasy that there’s something better waiting for you at home. In this fantasy, your girl is keeping the home fires burning, hankering for your return.”
― M.J. Arlidge, Pop Goes the Weasel

“The fog crept in from the sea, suffocating the city. It descended like an invading army, consuming landmarks, choking out the moonlight, rendering Southampton a strange and unnerving place.”
― M.J. Arlidge, Pop Goes the Weasel

“How long does it take to die of starvation? Too long.”
― M.J. Arlidge, Eeny Meeny

“There is so much that is random and cruel and pointless in life. So much shit to wade through, so many small indignities marching side by side with gross injustices. So much darkness that visits itself on you whether you want it to or not. But there are some things you can control. You can control you. You can control your feelings. And if you’re bright, you can control other people.”
― M.J. Arlidge, Liar Liar

“The truth is that you cannot truly cut yourself off from your own flesh and blood. Once you’ve carried a child to term, given birth to them, nurtured them, there is a bond there that never disappears, whatever else may happen.”
― M.J. Arlidge, Down to the Woods

“No question, life never fails to surprise you. You really do find kindness in the strangest places.”
― M.J. Arlidge, Hide and Seek

“La confiance est une chose fragile : difficile à gagner, facile à perdre.”
― M.J. Arlidge, Eeny Meeny

“As the wind whipped her body, she realized that today she was feeling decidedly unusual.
She was happy.”
― M.J. Arlidge, Eeny Meeny

“We always question ourselves more than we question others and most of her colleagues and occasional lovers seemed to buy the image of a tough, committed career copper who could not be shocked, frightened or intimidated.”
― M.J. Arlidge, Eeny Meeny

“She didn’t particularly like camping, seldom visited the forest”
― M.J. Arlidge, Down to the Woods

“Rubberneckers are an easy target aren't they? They are ghouls, feeding on the misfortune of others. And yet which of us can say we wouldn't look? That we haven't looked as we crawled past a motorway pileup or idled by a police cordon. What are we looking for? Signs of life? Signs of death?”
― M.J. Arlidge

“Pasaulyje, kuriame vis sunkiau rasti prasmingų ryšių su kitais žmonėmis - per meilę, santuoką, šeimą, - dar niekada nebuvo taip lengva
susirasti draugijos už pinigus.”
― M. J. Arlidge

“She had a nasty feeling that forces beyond her control were gathering and preparing to shake her world.”
― M.J. Arlidge, Pop Goes the Weasel

“The aftermath of rape is like a slow death, a cancer eating away at you from the inside, unwilling to let you go, unwilling to let you live.”
― M.J. Arlidge, Pop Goes the Weasel

“It had been a horrific night”
― M.J. Arlidge, Hide and Seek

“There are some pubs where you go to woo your lover. There are others where you go to stand on the tables and sing. And there are others where you go to drink yourself to death.”
― M.J. Arlidge, Eeny Meeny

“Trust is a fragile thing – hard to earn, easy to lose. I’m not sure of anything any more.”
― M.J. Arlidge, Eeny Meeny

“At this point the room erupted – question after question raining down on Helen. It was a sustained assault but Helen had no choice but to weather it, however damaging or provocative the questions were. She needed the public to be vigilant, so she needed the press onside. It was a bitter pill to swallow but the situation was critical now. Sometimes in life you have to feed the hand that bites you.”
― M.J. Arlidge, Eeny Meeny

“Het eindigt zoals het is begonnen. Met een keuze.”
― MJ Arlidge