Nicole

“She felt it when she woke, not a presence but an absence.”
― Paula Hawkins, Into the Water

“The memory had borne its burial well, had returned to her intact, untarnished, fully dimensional, part of her living history, complete with visceral analogues—tastes, smells, sensations—actual voltage. It was a sightless memory, however, clothed in darkness, which she took to mean that the remembered events had taken place at night. Either that or the girl she had been was resolutely shut-eyed, had decided from the outset to curtail the offensive sensory input. Initially, the explosion within had been all pain and alarm, but later on she learned the trick of surrender, came to understand that...”
― A.S.A. Harrison

“And then it happened. It was a detail, no more than that. A detail to which you pay no attention at first. That takes on meaning only later. In retrospect.”
― Herman Koch, Summer House with Swimming Pool

“He was actually quite fond of discrepancies because his experience told him that they eventually provided a window into the truth.”
― John Verdon, Shut Your Eyes Tight