Rachel Abbott > Rachel's Quotes

“Today is the day after my wedding. And nothing is the way I expected it to be.”
― Rachel Abbott, Only the Innocent

“She searched her mind for a single day when it had felt good to be alive. There must have been one, surely?”
― Rachel Abbott, Only the Innocent

“It was as if she would never be whole until the secrets of the past were exposed.”
― Rachel Abbott, The Back Road

“A radio was playing quietly. Nobody was listening. It was there to drown out the silence.”
― Rachel Abbott, The Back Road

“Each time he came he would twist my defenceless body into a different pose, as if I were his very own doll”
― Rachel Abbott, Only the Innocent

“The quiet but inexorable breaking down of self-esteem is much more sinister - it’s violation of the soul.”
― Rachel Abbott, Only the Innocent

“Sometimes she thought of David as an ostrich, burying his head in the sand and forcing himself to believe that all would be well. It was one of the few things about him that she found frustrating. It wasn't so much optimism as an inability to face reality and a tendency to look for the easy way out. It wasn't going to work this time. There was no easy way out.”
― Rachel Abbott, Stranger Child

“Emma wondered not for the first time how silence could vary so much in pitch and tone. This silence held a high-pitched scream at its heart.”
― Rachel Abbott, Stranger Child

“How could pain that wasn’t inflicted by a physical assault hurt so much? How could emotional distress turn into this agonising emptiness?”
― Rachel Abbott, Stranger Child

“Within our working lives, and perhaps even amongst friends, we see deceptions played out before our eyes: people who pretend to be happy when they are aching with sadness, or to like each other when they feel nothing but contempt. Perhaps these are actions of self-preservation, driven by a will to hide our pain from a wider audience. Within a relationship, though, pretence is indeed both unreasonable and illogical. Admit to being the person you really are. Never play that deadly game of charades.”
― Rachel Abbott, The Back Road

“Becky was increasingly of the opinion that people were inherently bad; it was just a matter of how well they controlled their badness.”
― Rachel Abbott, Kill Me Again