Mark Edwards > Quotes

“Too Tired To Argue. If she ever wrote a book about parenting, that would be the title.”
― Mark Edwards

“You think he might be a psychopath?”
― Mark Edwards, The Wasp Trap

“The clock’s still ticking, you know. Tick tock. Tick fucking tock.”
― Mark Edwards, The Wasp Trap

“I wondered if they had my name on database now, with an alert next to it: nutter.”
― Mark Edwards

“Anyone who has ever fallen hard will understand. The magic of those early days, when you are consumed by each other, when your whole body thrums in the presence of this new significant other and aches when you're apart.

~Here To Stay, Mark Edwards”
― Mark Edwards

“No more wasting time. No more wasting life. From now on, I was going to be impetuous and brave. Willing to take risks.”
― Mark Edwards

“Ah, who was he kidding? They’d call him Posh Boy and kick the crap out of him every day.”
― Mark Edwards, The Wasp Trap

“No life is unremarkable.”
― Mark Edwards

“This was life, really lived, a passage of magic that would flash before our eyes when we died. And to share it, to live through these experiences together, meant that Laura and I were closer than ever.”
― Mark Edwards

“Something about that smile, the way it had vanished, made the hairs on my arms stand on end.”
― Mark Edwards, The Wasp Trap

“You know I don't have much experience of big families, but from what I've seen there are two types. The type where everything is out in the open, where they argue and shout and slam doors, and where disagreements are dealt with loudly and quickly. And the other type, where no one really says what they mean, where everyone tiptoes around and emotions are kept buried.

~Here to Stay”
― Mark Edwards

“If any of us were a psychopath, I already had a good idea who it would be.”
― Mark Edwards, The Wasp Trap