Colette McBeth > Quotes

“It's that knowledge that sustains you through tough times, the certainty that you will always be less without each other than you are together.”
― Colette McBeth

“How is she feeling? Like a bag of cats, her dad would have said. She is feeling that something is bothering her and for once she is going to say what is on her mind.”
― Colette McBeth, The Life I Left Behind

“Sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind.”
― Colette McBeth, Precious Thing

“Before she answers, she’d like to know what the truth will cost her. She’d like a crystal ball to see where it will lead her. She doesn’t like walking in the dark with no sense of what lies ahead.”
― Colette McBeth, The Life I Left Behind

“If you have a problem, take it for a walk, my dad used to say.”
― Colette McBeth, The Life I Left Behind

“Up above she spies a murmuration of starlings like a dark cloud of iron shavings wheeling, turning and swooping in the sky.”
― Colette McBeth, The Life I Left Behind

“Would it stop the thoughts exploding like bang snaps in her head?”
― Colette McBeth, The Life I Left Behind

“It’s about coming across a person who has something you didn’t even know you wanted.”
― Colette McBeth, The Life I Left Behind

“Would she throw her arms wide open and spin around until she’s dizzy to revel in the miracle that has granted her an extra, glorious moment of life? Would she stretch out that second, squeeze every shred of pleasure from it, knowing as she does that time is finite, that it slips past so quickly and when it’s gone it can’t be repeated?”
― Colette McBeth, The Life I Left Behind

“If no one believed her, did that mean it wasn’t real? If no one saw her, would she not exist?”
― Colette McBeth, The Life I Left Behind

“I was a good sleeper, bordering on the professional in the sense that if I put my mind to it I could sleep anywhere, at any time.”
― Colette McBeth, The Life I Left Behind

“Rehearse your answers, they'd better be good.”
― Colette McBeth, Precious Thing

“Taking deep breaths she smells the mossy scent of the riverbank. The same smell you get just after it has rained. Petrichor, that’s what it’s called.”
― Colette McBeth, The Life I Left Behind

“Life is about forward momentum.”
― Colette McBeth, The Life I Left Behind

“Oh Tess, I’d love to, but I can’t, I’ve got work/emails/gym/I’m too tired.’ Delete as appropriate.”
― Colette McBeth, The Life I Left Behind

“to, when DCI Gunn expected me to collapse in a puddle.”
― Colette McBeth, Precious Thing

“Fucking hell, Eve, you’ve been listening to REM? Why didn’t you call me? I had no idea it was that bad.”
― Colette McBeth, The Life I Left Behind

“I’d like to be able to walk down the street and not want to disappear. No one gets it, not really. I didn’t value it until it was gone. Your reputation is the most valuable thing you have. That’s what they took from me.”
― Colette McBeth, The Life I Left Behind

“He’s only drinking tea. How can that possibly produce such a violent reaction?”
― Colette McBeth, The Life I Left Behind

“The same smell you get just after it has rained. Petrichor, that’s what it’s called. She searched for the term on the Internet years”
― Colette McBeth, The Life I Left Behind