With No One as Witness Quotes

“Of all my children, you were always the hardest on yourself. You were always looking for the right way to behave, so concerned you might make a mistake. But, darling, there are no mistakes. There are only our wishes, our actions, and the consequences that follow both. There are only events, how we cope with them, and what we learn from the coping."

"That's too easy," he said.

"On the contrary. It's monumentally difficult.”
― Elizabeth George, With No One as Witness

“Everything in our lives," she said quietly, "leads to everything else in our lives. So a moment in the present has a reference point, both in the past and in the future. I want you to know that you--as you are right now and as you ever will be--are fully enough for this moment . . . ”
― Elizabeth George, With No One as Witness

“One did not alter lives and simply walk away from the damage.”
― Elizabeth George, With No One as Witness

“The people in makeup would buff away the shine on the face of anyone in front of the camera, and the sound blokes would clip a microphone onto the lapel of a jacket so it looked like something other than an insect about to crawl onto the presenter’s chin, but Steven Spielberg this group was not. This was a low-budget operation, thank you very much.”
― Elizabeth George, With No One as Witness

“from”
― Elizabeth George, With No One as Witness

“what good it’ll do. We’re”
― Elizabeth George, With No One as Witness

“they knew, you see, at that point they knew.” When he breathed, he could hear it grinding into his lungs and he knew Hillier could hear it as well. And he hated that fact for what it revealed, and for how it could be used against him. Hillier said, “Sit down. Please. You need to sit down.” Not that, he thought.”
― Elizabeth George, With No One as Witness

“she”
― Elizabeth George, With No One as Witness

“A man one would have sacrificed nearly everything for turned out to have the value of a dust mote when one’s head finally cleared.”
― Elizabeth George, With No One as Witness

“Paedophiles lived in a parallel universe to the rest of mankind, and one could do virtually nothing to blast them out of it, so immovably had they placed themselves there through years of rationalisation.”
― Elizabeth George, With No One as Witness

“Rubens is rolling in his grave, you ask me. And she needs to be put out of my misery.”
― Elizabeth George, With No One as Witness