“We now know that memories are not fixed or frozen, like Proust’s jars of preserves in a larder, but are transformed, disassembled,… — Paula Hawkins Memory Copy Share Image
“no eres capaz de recordar lo que has hecho, es tu mente la que rellena los huecos y no puedes evitar pensar… — Paula Hawkins Copy Share Image
“Holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mould yourself through the… — Paula Hawkins Life Copy Share Image
“The horrors conjured up by the mind are always so much worse than what is.” — Paula Hawkins Psychology Copy Share Image
“Some say the women left something of themselves in the water; some say it retains some of their power, for ever since… — Paula Hawkins Sisters Copy Share Image
“I was running along the coastal path, clasping Mum's bracelet to my wrist. I was terrified that it was going to drop… — Paula Hawkins Copy Share Image
“I am not the girl I used to be. I am no longer desirable, I’m off-putting in some way. It’s not just… — Paula Hawkins Lack of sleep Copy Share Image
“There's a faulty signal on this line, about halfway through my journey. I assume it must be faulty, in any case, because… — Paula Hawkins Fitness Copy Share Image
“She had never realized before her life was torn apart how awkward grief was, how inconvenient for everyone with whom the mourner… — Paula Hawkins Grief Copy Share Image
“Hollowness: that I understand. I'm starting to think that there isn't anything you can do to fix it...The holes in your life… — Paula Hawkins Life Copy Share Image
“I’d never realized, not until the last year or two of my life, how shaming it is to be pitied. The” — Paula Hawkins Last year Copy Share Image
“All this guilt, this doubt, it was corrosive. It was changing her, twisting her. She was not the woman she used to… — Paula Hawkins Regret Copy Share Image
“No one liked to think about the fact that the water in that river was infected with the blood and bile of… — Paula Hawkins Every day Copy Share Image
“Anything was possible. When you hear hooves you look for horses, but you can’t discount zebras.” — Paula Hawkins Copy Share Image
“watch the people I pass—the two men running, backpacks on, training for the marathon, the young woman in a black skirt and… — Paula Hawkins Fitness Copy Share Image
“But then I suppose I’ve never really lost anyone. How would I know what that kind of grief feels like?” — Paula Hawkins Grief Copy Share Image
“She used to think that only parents can understand the sort of love that swallows you up, but now she wondered whether… — Paula Hawkins Love Copy Share Image
“You stung me like that often; cruelty always was your strong suit.” — Paula Hawkins Copy Share Image
“Who was it who said that following your heart is a good thing? It is pure egotism, a selfishness to conquer all.” — Paula Hawkins Following your heart Copy Share Image
“They never saw what the water really was, greenish-black and filled with living things and dying things.” — Paula Hawkins Living things Copy Share Image
“I'm going to have to be strong, that's all there is to it.” — Paula Hawkins Strength Copy Share Image
“Imagine walking past the place where you lost someone, every single day.” — Paula Hawkins Every single day Copy Share Image
“The river can go back over the past and bring it all up and spit it out on the banks in full… — Paula Hawkins Time Copy Share Image
