One Step Too Far Quotes

“When they finally leave me alone I find that I'm beyond feeling, beyond caring, I'm in a place deep in my mind that feels safe and warm, where nothing can go wrong, because it already has, every last thing that can.”
― Tina Seskis, One Step Too Far

“amazed that she doesn’t try to fix me, just accepts me, flawed and raw as I am.”
― Tina Seskis, One Step Too Far

“She'd become scarily addicted to that show - it seemed she always needed to be addicted to something, and if now it was cooking calorie-laden seventies-inspired meals like her mother's and watching vacuously rubbish game shows, surely these were better than her previous vices?”
― Tina Seskis, One Step Too Far

“He was lonely, wherever he was, whoever he was with”
― Tina Seskis, One Step Too Far

“just fuck off and go away. 61 Caroline had felt a peculiar sense of triumph when she’d seduced her twin sister’s husband. She’d thought he was fair game. Emily had abandoned him after all, and the fact that Ben’s desire for her, Caroline, had been so intense and all-consuming, well, it had made her feel”
― Tina Seskis, One Step Too Far

“anyway I’m hungry now. I hardly”
― Tina Seskis, One Step Too Far

“he opened the door he stopped,”
― Tina Seskis, One Step Too Far

“voice sounded”
― Tina Seskis, One Step Too Far

“I’m just another girl in designer heels, with a hole where her soul used to be.”
― Tina Seskis, One Step Too Far

“Lights were just coming on in some of the houses and Andrew wondered what was going on behind those tidy front doors, with their high-end family cars in the driveways and the marigolds in the straight, unimaginative borders beginning to show their gaudy colours in the half-light. Were everyone else's lives as fucked up as his was?”
― Tina Seskis, One Step Too Far

“She loved his passion, his enthusiasm for life, the depth in his eyes, loyal like a dog, and she knew, just knew, sat there in that moment in a hotel in Devon, that she would never let him go, not ever.”
― Tina Seskis, One Step Too Far

“It's funny how hard it is, when it really comes down to it, to move on from a tragedy that will always define you. You need a bucket load of determination and a resolve to never go back to the scene of the original devastation, to leave that place behind.”
― Tina Seskis, One Step Too Far

“In the past I would have been shocked that someone's life can be full of so much drama, but now I'm not, because so is mine.”
― Tina Seskis, One Step Too Far

“Although we're going fast now the journey seems interminable, my body strains to get up and run, but to where? I'm already running.”
― Tina Seskis, One Step Too Far

“No-one knnows my story here, I'm anonymous at last, just another young woman with a holdall. I feel adrift, like I'm not really here, but I am, I can tell, the seat is solid beneath me, the backs of houses are rushing past the window. I've done it.”
― Tina Seskis, One Step Too Far