Vicky

“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

“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

“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

“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