Shared Remains Quotes

“She was used to members of the public receiving such long and complicated notices, which obfuscated around issues to confuse and distract.”
― Rachel Lynch, Shared Remains

“Her body felt tired, but she knew it was the weight of her heart. It wasn’t broken. It had never healed. Faced”
― Rachel Lynch, Shared Remains

“I’m surrounded by liars all day long, I really don’t want to go home to them too. Besides, why are you making excuses for him? You said yourself, you wish you’d left Derek years ago instead of giving him the benefit of the doubt each time he let you down. I don’t want to waste my life forgiving somebody who never learns. A mistake is a one-off, when they do it again it’s a pattern, and I’m sick of being disappointed.”
― Rachel Lynch, Shared Remains

“Staying married for financial reasons makes sense, but he still lied and I’m frankly sick of questioning his moral integrity.’ It was true, Kelly was growing weary of being caught out by Johnny’s mistakes.”
― Rachel Lynch, Shared Remains

“hate is stronger than love.”
― Rachel Lynch, Shared Remains

“He was always vague. ‘Why, does it matter?’ he asked. ‘No reason, just asking.’ Her earlier feeling of succour dissipated, and she felt shut out once more.”
― Rachel Lynch, Shared Remains

“It was as if the soul of a person disappeared before their body ever did. Disappointment, betrayal or apathy at impending nothingness… Whatever it was, she’d seen”
― Rachel Lynch, Shared Remains

“He was secretive. I’ve been thinking. A lot. It was his eyes. They’d stopped living, if you know what I mean.”
― Rachel Lynch, Shared Remains

“They’d faced each other in court, on opposite sides of the law. She’d told herself afterwards that he had only been doing his job, and she hers. But it triggered her deep distaste for injustice. Her perception of what justice should be. She’d seen, first-hand, what Ian Burton did to his victims, and those he controlled. Johnny either had an enormous capacity for forgiveness and compassion, or else…”
― Rachel Lynch, Shared Remains

“Old familiar sensations bubbled up in her body and she identified them as old foes. She felt unsafe. Not in the sense that Johnny would hurt her physically. She knew he’d never do that. But he made choices that left her feeling vulnerable.”
― Rachel Lynch, Shared Remains

“Sorry is just a word. What I need to decide is if it’s enough. Sorry as a get out of jail free card. You have it in your back pocket, and it means you can do what you like with no consequence, and then just produce the card, and we go back to square one. I don’t think I can do that anymore.”
― Rachel Lynch, Shared Remains

“Allowing him to talk without interrupting was arduous. She realised he’d begun with an excuse. She”
― Rachel Lynch, Shared Remains

“Mary was too old to run now. Besides, she knew that the world was still the same at the end of the race. It didn’t matter how far you travelled, the memories had a way of hitching a ride, so what was the point? The secret was to be content where you were.”
― Rachel Lynch, Shared Remains

“It was one of those rhetorical encounters with a member of a professional body that was designed to make the uneducated contrite in the face of superior authority”
― Rachel Lynch, Shared Remains

“Kelly found it poignantly depressing that all that was left of Mary’s life were a few framed photos and a warm blanket, some books and a bedspread, but it was also a reminder that everything we need is right here with us. The things we collect are but elements of passing time.”
― Rachel Lynch, Shared Remains

“One thing was for sure, funerals were eye-wateringly expensive. The whole event had changed over the years, now they were more like weddings, with choices for everything from catering to coffin liners.”
― Rachel Lynch, Shared Remains

“Kelly wondered if it was a sticking point between the two or if Victor liked keeping his wife in the shadows.”
― Rachel Lynch, Shared Remains

“Kelly believed you ended up wearing your life on your face: disappointment and happiness alike.”
― Rachel Lynch, Shared Remains

“There was no love lost, they didn’t talk because there was nothing to talk about.”
― Rachel Lynch, Shared Remains

“She looked in her sixties, the age for retiring, but Kelly knew that places like this were heirlooms, not nine-to-five jobs.”
― Rachel Lynch, Shared Remains

“It had been raining all morning but in the late afternoon, as was not uncommon in these parts, the drizzle had stopped and the sun had come out, as if God was announcing that he was ready for his dinner.”
― Rachel Lynch, Shared Remains