Stranded Quotes

“The older you get the easier it is to be different.”
― Ann Cleeves, Stranded

“A young woman, dead for nearly thirty years. Stranded and lonely. Looking for company. Desperate for me to join her.”
― Ann Cleeves, Stranded

“On the train on the way back to the chaos of my home I think that Vicky Macfarlane will haunt me for the rest of my life.”
― Ann Cleeves, Stranded

“I haven't been back to Hilbre since I got lost in the fog with Vicky. I tell myself it's because I`ve grown up, but really it's because I still have nightmares about that day and I don't want to be reminded that I left a girl to drown. I hope that the nightmares will fade with time”
― Ann Cleeves, Stranded

“It's as if she's high or drunk or she doesn't care what happens to her. It comes to me that she doesn't have the sort of perfect home life that I'd imagined for her and that she really doesn't mind if she lives or dies.”
― Ann Cleeves, Stranded

“I'm a coward. I'd told her that I wanted to stay with her forever but I don't care enough to put my own life in danger. I turn round and follow the sound of the yapping dog. Occasionally I look back but there's no sign of her. I know that I've probably left her to drown, but she was so mad and so wild out there that perhaps that was what she wanted all along and she saw our meeting as a strange suicide pact.”
― Ann Cleeves, Stranded

“The thing about the tide in the Dee is that it's not predictable. It snakes through the gullies filling deep channels that can cut off your progress to the mainland. People have drowned because they don't show the water the proper respect.”
― Ann Cleeves, Stranded

“So here I am, Anthony Murphy, caught between two worlds. (...) Perhaps that's why I like Hilbre so much, because it's caught between two worlds too. Halfway between England and Wales and stranded like a sandstone whale between the land and the sea. Im fifteen years old and I don't feel like a lad or a man.”
― Ann Cleeves, Stranded