The Truth About Her Quotes

“JJ doesn't know what to do with himself. He doesn't know what to do with everything he's feeling - it needs somewhere to go, some way to release, but he's terrified of himself, terrified of what damage he could do”
― Annie Taylor, The Truth About Her

“The death of a child - especially in such traumatic circumstances - can break even the most stable of parents. Can smash you apart, leaving behind something or someone completely unrecognizable. A jagged reflection in a ruined mirror”
― Annie Taylor, The Truth About Her

“I came here, not to forget exactly, but to get away from the reflection of myself in the dirty mirror of my life in LA, and instead it's been thrown right back at me, the glass in the mirror shattering around me, causing something so much worse than seven years' bad luck”
― Annie Taylor, The Truth About Her

“Isn't that mostly what getting older is? Fooling everyone that you know what you're doing. Fooling everyone that you've got it all together. Fooling everyone you're having a good time”
― Annie Taylor, The Truth About Her

“Ever since the fifties there's been some new thing that's got parents worked up about their children, and how they're going to turn out, and for the most part, they've all been fine”
― Annie Taylor, The Truth About Her

“How has she made friends so quickly? Rachel wonders at the rubber-ball resilience of small children. With age is meant to come wisdom, but as far as Rachel can tell, all it brings is an increased sense of fear and evergrowing anxiety, both of which are an anathema to making friends”
― Annie Taylor, The Truth About Her

“In summer I imagine the beach busy, swarming with visitors, but now all is silent, empty. The particular loneliness of the seaside in winter”
― Annie Taylor, The Truth About Her

“I pull the car to a stop and stare out at the view in front of me. All the way from Gatwick the sky has been grey and low, a compressing monolithic sheath that has put the world on mute. But as I look out at the cabin in front of me, and the view beyond, I see the sea. It smashes and grabs at the shoreline, all that movement and unbridled freedom, showing off under the heavy, leaden sky”
― Annie Taylor, The Truth About Her

“It's such a terrible shock. A gut-wrenching surprise. And yet it's not.

That family. That mother. Those good looks, that house, three beautiful children. All that money.

If it was going to happen to anyone, it was going to happen to the Lowes, wasn't it? You can't be that golden for that long without a little of the shine starting to come off”
― Annie Taylor, The Truth About Her