Don't Let Her Stay Quotes

“I think you’re losing your mind, Joanne. Just like your mother.”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“Something that still fits me? Something that won’t make me look like salami encased in twine?”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“Chloe was eleven years old when her mother passed away. They were living near Reading at the time. Diane had been ill for some time, and Richard was away in Spain when she died unexpectedly.”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“He knows. He knows what she’s like, but he pretends he doesn’t. Or maybe he is so much in denial that he can’t bring himself to admit it. But one thing is suddenly very clear: he doesn’t want to provoke her.”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“my brain is like mashed potato.”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“organise”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“Harrods”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“And you do that often? Get drunk and fuck other men?”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“but I’m going to turn that young woman around. I’m going to make sure she’s happy and well-adjusted, even if it kills me.”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“Joanne, please. It’s getting tedious, and frankly, it doesn't sound like Chloe at all. I just don’t believe it.”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“He put his glass down very slowly. ‘And you do that often? Get drunk and fuck other men?”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“Come out, Chloe! You evil little psycho! I’ll find you eventually!’ ‘Why does he keep calling you that?’ I whisper.”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“Nothing up there, Mrs Atkinson. Just an open window. I closed it. Was there anything else?”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“First”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“I’ll”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“She really doesn’t like you much,’ Chloe says.”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“She hasn’t always been well, is what I meant”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“tired to wash my hair.”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“his eyes moist.”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“And”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“mind.”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“That she did it.”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“He takes my shoulders. ‘I don’t want to call the police. Not yet.”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“I know. But it will be all right.”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“I saw Mr Atkinson and Chloe together once when I came to the house to speak to him for my article. He quickly sent her out of the room, but I saw the way she looked at him, and it was cold. Like she was dead inside. It gave me the shivers. Then I caught the look on Mr Atkinson’s face and believe me, Joanne, he was scared of her. That man was afraid of his eleven-year-old daughter.”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“And that young woman lives with you?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Then don’t stand too close to any balustrades, Mrs Atkinson.”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“Two hours and fifty-five minutes. That's how long it takes before I find something that makes me sit up in bed.”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“I don’t care about your father’s money. I’m here because I love him. You might not believe it, but that says more about you than about me.”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“Why didn’t you tell me?’ ‘Tell you what?’ ‘That you and Diane had another baby?”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“Oh bugger it,’ I mutter, and walk across, helping myself to two of them.”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay