Magpie Murders (Susan Ryeland, #1)

by Anthony Horowitz

sometimes you can spend so much time chasing something that you lose everything else while you’re about it.’

I took out my iPhone and moved away from the front door so that I could get a picture of the whole thing. I didn’t know why I did that, but then why does anyone take photographs ever? We never look at them any more.

You must know that feeling when it’s raining outside and the heating’s on and you lose yourself, utterly, in a book. You read and you read and you feel the pages slipping through your fingers until suddenly there are fewer in your right hand than there are in your left and you want to slow down but you still hurtle on towards a conclusion you can hardly bear to discover.

There are some relationships that succeed only because they are impossible, that actually need unhappiness to continue.