The Revenge of Rose Grubb Quotes

“It was there, on the swivel chair, we made love for the first time. It wasn't awe inspiring, the earth didn't move, but it was nice.”
― Rachael Eyre, The Revenge of Rose Grubb

“The most wonderful and terrible, painful and ecstatic five years of my life, gone. I'd like to say I didn't go back, because that would round off with the heartwarming ending film studios crave, but that would be a lie.

I wish it could be true.”
― Rachael Eyre, The Revenge of Rose Grubb

“If you want a kiss to be good, you think, 'I love you,' as you do it. Evan has been the only one who thought that and meant it.”
― Rachael Eyre, The Revenge of Rose Grubb

“Suicide's passé. It didn't do Judas any good.”
― Rachael Eyre, The Revenge of Rose Grubb

“What did lesbians do? I had a vague idea they sat around holding hands and fixing each other's hair.”
― Rachael Eyre, The Revenge of Rose Grubb

“I wish I'd swallowed my pride. But in the turbulence of adolescence, it's all you have.”
― Rachael Eyre, The Revenge of Rose Grubb

“I never claimed to be nice or good.”
― Rachael Eyre, The Revenge of Rose Grubb

“I despise labels - who I sleep with is nobody's business - but since it matters to other people, bi may as well do.”
― Rachael Eyre, The Revenge of Rose Grubb

“You can't kill every wanker off the telly, every kid who bullied you at school. The morgues would be overflowing.”
― Rachael Eyre, The Revenge of Rose Grubb

“Faking your death has a disastrous effect on your social life.”
― Rachael Eyre, The Revenge of Rose Grubb

“She founded a programme, the France's Sewell Trust for Gifted Children. Each year twenty prodigies would have a wad of cash chucked at them to 'develop their potential'.

'I was a gifted child,' she crooned in an interview. 'I know how desperately lonely it is, not having anyone on your level.'

Cob puked up half a snake. I concurred.”
― Rachael Eyre, The Revenge of Rose Grubb

“Other people's nightmares are about loved ones dying, monsters from the cracks of the imagination. Mine are about school.”
― Rachael Eyre, The Revenge of Rose Grubb

“One presence stains these pages, sharper than bereavement and more powerful than love. Frances. I wish I could let her go, never speak that insinuating name like poison. Still she lingers and harms.”
― Rachael Eyre, The Revenge of Rose Grubb

“When I was seventeen she ripped my world apart. She did it again when I was twenty one, the third and last time when I was twenty seven. My scars haven't healed so much as matured, become a work of art. They're the only children I have.”
― Rachael Eyre, The Revenge of Rose Grubb

“The worse it became at school, the more I wondered: is there another me, hidden in the shop? Is that all it'll take, a few fabric shapes and poppers? If I find it and put it on, will they stop?”
― Rachael Eyre, The Revenge of Rose Grubb

“It was a common theme on Sally's talk shows, victims reunited with their bullies. The victim was always well groomed in some line of psychiatry, the bully a fat chain smoker in a tracksuit. After talking about their feelings at nauseating length, they'd end up crying on each other.

It never said what to do if your bully was the UK's highest earning TV personality and a serial killer.”
― Rachael Eyre, The Revenge of Rose Grubb

“I've been in the country of my revenge for so long, seen only its arid plains. It robs you of sense and judgement, meaning that no matter how far you travel it's always the same stretch of road.”
― Rachael Eyre, The Revenge of Rose Grubb

“How was I to know the story of Frances and me would never end, would be the sap running through my days? Normal people have the love of my life; I have a hate. I've always done everything the wrong way round.”
― Rachael Eyre, The Revenge of Rose Grubb