The Night of the Sleepover Quotes

“No, not 'it'. Fate was a she. Leah and fate were friends. They always had been”
― Kerry Wilkinson, The Night of the Sleepover

“The key to being a great liar was to surround the fib in truth”
― Kerry Wilkinson, The Night of the Sleepover

“That was the thing when it came to victims like Leah's mum, like Fiona. Even when they went through all the steps to get a restraining order, what they really wanted was for a person to love them who never had, and never would”
― Kerry Wilkinson, The Night of the Sleepover

“It felt like something that couldn't happen, and certainly shouldn't - and yet that's why there were so many true-crime documentaries and podcasts. It was always about how the police had missed something that later seemed obvious”
― Kerry Wilkinson, The Night of the Sleepover

“Leah thought about apologising, even though she wouldn't mean it. Sometimes it was better to say sorry, even when you weren't”
― Kerry Wilkinson, The Night of the Sleepover

“She'd seen him as a hotshot creator out to get her. Ultimately, he was trying his hardest to act as if he belonged in a world where people who came from a place like them were rarely welcomed”
― Kerry Wilkinson, The Night of the Sleepover

“She had never quite got into the sort of publications girls their age were supposed to be reading. Most of it was clothes they should be wearing, or women they should try to look like. It was hard to care about any of that when she would sit in her own bedroom, listening to the chaos of her parents below. It all felt so trivial”
― Kerry Wilkinson, The Night of the Sleepover

“Sarcasm wasn't much fun when there was only one person”
― Kerry Wilkinson, The Night of the Sleepover

“Leah wasn't sure if that was a question. It sounded like one but adults had a habit of not saying what they actually meant”
― Kerry Wilkinson, The Night of the Sleepover

“It felt like something inevitable had happened. Like being invited to the evening do of some distant relative. Everyone wanted to say 'no', but ended up going anyway”
― Kerry Wilkinson, The Night of the Sleepover