Donna > Donna's Quotes

“Ha," I said. "Oh, ha-ha. Yeah, ’cause they love me. You see how many vampires are up here? Zero, right?"
One," said Eric, stepping out of the stairwell.”
― Charlaine Harris, All Together Dead

“In the depths of his tiredness, surrounded by these blank, sheep-like visages, he found himself pondering the accidents that had brought all of them into being. Every birth was, viewed properly, mere chance. With a hundred million sperm swimming blindly through the darkness, the odds against a person becoming themselves were staggering.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Silkworm

“You are what you are. Find a way to live with it.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Burned

“The devil is in the details. So, sometimes, is salvation.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Burned

“Fact: you can never know another person completely.
Fact: you are born alone and die alone.
Fact: there is no such thing as safety. Only vigilance, determination to survive, and a willingness to be ruthless about it.
Fact: love is not perfect.
Fact: neither am I.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Burned

“As he passed a spectacular viaduct to his right, he though about psychopaths, and how they were to be found everywhere, not only in run-down tenements and slums and squats, but even here, in this place of serene beauty.”
― Robert Galbraith

“It feels like coming home - not just to any home, but a childhood home, a place left behind a lifetime ago; it's the familiarity of walking up stairs and knowing exactly which one is going to creak.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“He doesn’t know how determined I can be. Once I’ve made my mind up, I’m a force to be reckoned with.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“Sometimes I feel like seeing if I can track down anybody from the old days , but then I think, what would I talk to them about now?”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“I am no longer just a girl on the train, going back and forth without point or purpose.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“You’re not some grieving, lost child any longer. You’re a completely different person. You’re stronger. You’re an adult now. You don’t have to be afraid of being alone. It’s not the worst thing, is it?”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“I feel about an incident is proportionate not just to the gravity of the situation, but also to the number of people who have witnessed it.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“The windows of number fifteen, reflecting morning sunshine, look like sightless eyes.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“Life is not a paragraph, and death is no parenthesis.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“I am interested, for the first time in ages, in something other than my own misery. I have purpose. Or at least, I have a distraction.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“The holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mold yourself through the gaps.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“I need to find something that I must do, something undeniable.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“I quit! I feel so much better, as if anything is possible. I’m free!”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“She has her fingers curled tightly around his forefinger and I have hold of her perfect pink foot, and I feel as though fireworks are going off in my chest. It’s impossible, this much love.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“The clouds that menaced this morning did so all day, growing heavier and blacker until they burst, monsoon-like, this evening, just as office workers stepped outside and the rush hour began in earnest, leaving the roads gridlocked and tube station entrances choked with people opening and closing umbrellas.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“Usually, I would pretend to be nice, but this morning I feel real, like myself. I feel high, almost like I’m tripping, and I couldn’t fake nice if I tried.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“I'm well aware that there is no job more important than that of raising a child, but the problem is that it isn't valued.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“I’m still holding back, because obviously I can’t say everything I’m feeling. I know that’s the point of therapy, but I just can’t. I have to keep things vague,”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“I’m going to tell the truth. No more lies, no more hiding, no more running, no more bullshit. I’m going to put everything out in the open, and then we’ll see. If he can’t love me then, so be it.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“I am no longer just a girl on the train,”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“it comes down to it, they feel a bit pointless, as if I’m playing at real life instead of actually living it. I need to find something that I must do, something undeniable.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“Maybe the courage I need has nothing to do with telling the truth and everything to do with walking away.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“Cathy gets up early to clean the house every Saturday, no matter what. It could be her birthday, it could be the morning of the Rapture—Cathy will get up early on Saturday to clean. She says it’s cathartic, it sets her up for a good weekend, and because she cleans the house aerobically, it means she doesn’t have to go to the gym.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“At night I can hear it, quiet but unrelenting, undeniable: a whisper in my head, Slip away. When I close my eyes, my head is filled with images of past and future lives, the things I had and threw away. I can't get comfortable, because every way I turn I run into dead ends.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“This is what marriage is—safe, warm, comfortable. Tom”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train