The Facts of Life and Death Quotes

“People told you things over a cup of tea that they wouldn’t under torture.”
― Belinda Bauer, The Facts of Life and Death

“Ruby put down her pen and sighed deeply at the nice blank page she'd ruined with her boring life”
― Belinda Bauer, The Facts of Life and Death

“How could she have been so stupid? That wasn’t like her. That was the kind of thing other people did. People who weren’t as cautious; weren’t as clever.
Those were the people who were alive one second and dead the next.
And in the Gazette the day after that.”
― Belinda Bauer, The Facts of Life and Death

“She thought of all the good stuff waiting for her when she got older. The first thing she would do was buy a pony so that when she got a job she could ride it to work and to the shops and hitch it up outside so she could see it from the window. And with the money she made from doing… something… she’d buy her own custard creams and not have to search every time for where Mummy had hidden theirs. She’d live in a warm house in a sunny field, miles from trees, where mould didn’t blacken the walls and where the wind never squealed through the windows.
Daddy must be wrong about growing up.
She couldn’t wait to get there.”
― Belinda Bauer, The Facts of Life and Death

“There was a killer on the loose. Not the one-off, fumbling, accidental killer they’d all hoped for, but a killer who had started small and was escalating, and whose trajectory could be charted and predicted along psychological x and y axes.
Ever rising.”
― Belinda Bauer, The Facts of Life and Death

“It was a universal truth that however tragic and unfair life got, nothing ever seemed so grim once it was tidied up a bit.”
― Belinda Bauer, The Facts of Life and Death

“Calvin didn’t know much about women, but he did know that women and their handbags were like conjoined twins. If they had been separated, then anything might have happened.”
― Belinda Bauer, The Facts of Life and Death