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“It felt dangerous, that feeling, something she couldn't control, that got bigger even as she tried to banish it, to tell herself that these were the feelings that hurt you eventually, that destroyed lives, that needed to be ignored. She'd followed her heart once, when she was too young to know how completely a heart could be shattered.”

Love Heartbreak

Book:Little Darlings

Source: Little Darlings

“Drink makes you more truthful, I've heard." "No, it doesn't do that," said Joanna. "It makes you self-destruct.”

Truth Pain Drinking Alcohol Self Destruction

Book:The Hidden

Source: The Hidden

“Whatever her family setup looked like after this, Leonie would be changed by it, like the roots of a sapling encountering a rock, and growing differently for ever. But maybe that was just life; maybe that's how we all grow.”

Love Growth Family Growing Up Childhood Roots

Book:The Hidden

Source: The Hidden

“And she realized, then, that she'd stopped thinking and speaking of Ruby as her sister altogether. She was a mother, and her child needed her. Perhaps for the first time, she knew she would be there, no matter what; she was the only person who could do it. And it felt completely right.”

Love Children Parent Motherhood Need Be There

Book:The Hidden

Source: The Hidden

“She was still waiting for the rush of love. That one you feel, all at once the second they’re born, like nothing you’ve ever experienced before. The rush of love that people with children always go on about. She’d been looking forward to it. It worried her that she hadn’t felt it yet.”

Children Motherhood

Book:Little Darlings

Source: Little Darlings

“No one ever seems to get that I need to be alone sometimes.”

Book:Little Darlings

Source: Little Darlings

“Look at someone every day for long enough and you stop seeing what everyone else sees. You start to see what no one else sees, what is kept hidden from most people.”

Love Relationships Marriage

Book:Little Darlings

Source: Little Darlings

“They'd been playing house, but it wasn't a game either of them liked.”

Love Trying Pain Relationships Attempting Dysfunction

Book:The Hidden

Source: The Hidden

“I loved her once, you know. I still do, as the mother of my child. But when someone's ill, and you become a carer, it can kill it dead, even if you don't want it to.”

Love Children Relationships Caring Parents Sickness

Book:The Hidden

Source: The Hidden

“But you tell yourself stories, don't you? Convince yourself the truth is different, because it hurts too much to admit it. That's how we all get through the day, every day, constructing our own little illusions of a never-ending life, of a reality that we have the power to control.”

Stories Truth Pain Hurt Denial Reality Of Life Control Truth Of Life Illusions Loss Of Control

Book:The Sight

Source: The Sight