Vicky > Vicky's Quotes

“Jojo’s got what you might call an elastic relationship with the truth.” “Elastic?” she repeats. “Yeah. She, er… how can I put it? When she doesn’t like the reality of things, she finds a reality she prefers.”
― Lisa Jewell, None of This Is True

“It's clearly not a topic he wants to give any oxygen to!”
― Lisa Jewell, The Night She Disappeared

“He leaves the room pulling the door closed quietly behind him, a gesture so incredibly unlike Zack,
"who usually engages inanimate objects forcefully and noisily”
― Lisa Jewell, The Night She Disappeared

“A man who can’t love but desperately needs to be loved is a dangerous thing indeed.”
― Lisa Jewell, Then She Was Gone

“As the father of your children, as a friend, as someone who shared a journey with you and as someone who loves you and cares about you. I don’t need to be married to you to be all those things. Those things are deeper than marriage. Those things are for ever.”
― Lisa Jewell, Then She Was Gone

“May was like the Friday night of summer: all the good times lying ahead of you, bright and shiny and waiting to be lived.”
― Lisa Jewell, Then She Was Gone

“If she could rewind the timeline, untwist it and roll it back the other way like a ball of wool, she’d see the knots in the yarn, the warning signs. Looking at it backward it was obvious all along.”
― Lisa Jewell, Then She Was Gone

“I remember being twenty-one and thinking that my personality was a solid thing, that me was set in stone, that I would always feel what I felt and believe what I believed. But now I know that me is fluid and shape-changing.”
― Lisa Jewell, Then She Was Gone

“Other mothers lose children without losing their husbands, too.” “You didn’t lose me, Laurel. I’m still yours. I’ll always be yours.” “Well, that’s not strictly true, is it?” He sighs again. “Where it counts,” he says. “As the father of your children, as a friend, as someone who shared a journey with you and as someone who loves you and cares about you. I don’t need to be married to you to be all those things. Those things are deeper than marriage. Those things are forever.”
― Lisa Jewell, Then She Was Gone

“I am brave, and I am brilliant, and I am strong..”
― Lisa Jewell, Then She Was Gone

“That was how she’d once viewed her perfect life: as a series of bad smells and unfulfilled duties, petty worries and late bills.”
― Lisa Jewell, Then She Was Gone

“All those hopes and dreams and talk of ballerinas and pop stars, concert pianists and boundary-breaking scientists. They all ended up in an office.”
― Lisa Jewell, Then She Was Gone

“Do you love him?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Do you love him enough to hurt a lot of people who don’t deserve to be hurt?’ ‘How do you expect me to answer that?’ ‘It’s a tough question, but you do need to answer it. Not now, but over the next hours and days.”
― Lisa Jewell, Then She Was Gone

“I’ve told her not to come here expecting validation or exemption from the usual rules of human decency.”
― Lisa Jewell, Then She Was Gone

“And she felt it then, like a needle in her heart, the love her mother always talked about. ‘You won’t understand how much I love you until you’re a mother yourself.”
― Lisa Jewell, Then She Was Gone

“I was protective of my antisocial persona in many ways. It felt safe to be invisible. No one had any expectations of me, and after eighteen years living in my parents’ house it was liberating not to be expected to do anything or be anything. So it was ambiguous, this feeling. On the one hand I wanted to be like these golden girls. On the other I felt far superior to them.”
― Lisa Jewell, Then She Was Gone

“She was an aloof child and prone to the most terrible tantrums. Tantrums is barely the word for it. If I had been that way inclined, I might have theorized that she had been possessed by the devil.”
― Lisa Jewell, Then She Was Gone

“Laurel gazes at him for a moment, willing him to provide her with the strand that will unfurl the knot of threads in her head”
― Lisa Jewell, Then She Was Gone

“Predisposition is not predestination.”
― William Landay, Defending Jacob

“Damage hardens us all. It will harden you too, when it finds you—and it will find you”
― William Landay, Defending Jacob

“Confirmation bias is the tendency to see things in your environment that confirm your preconceived ideas and not see things that conflict with what you already believe. I think maybe something like that happens with kids. You see what you want to see.”
― William Landay, Defending Jacob

“You're staring.'
'You're my wife. I'm allowed to stare.'
'Is that the rule?'
'Yes. Stare, leer, ogle, anything I want. Trust me. I'm a lawyer.”
― William Landay, Defending Jacob

“The leopard in the zoo wanders to the edge of his pen and, through the bars or across an unjumpable moat, he stares at you with contempt for your inferiority, for needing that barrier between you, There is a shared understanding in that moment, non verbal but no less real: the leopard is predator and you are prey, and it is only the barrier that permits us humans to feel superior and secure.”
― William Landay, Defending Jacob