It Could Have Been Her Quotes

“Trauma can tie you down”
― Lisa Jewell, It Could Have Been Her

“Trauma can tie you down, hold you in one position. You think you’ve moved, you think you’re somewhere else, but you’re not; you’re still there, pinned down in every single moment of it, and it’s easier, somehow, to stay close to the scenes of those moments, not to tug too hard at the pins, to surrender, not struggle—and I can’t explain it any better than that.”
― Lisa Jewell, It Could Have Been Her

“But there are fissures and scars in this house, something misaligned, something horribly, brutally broken, and I am determined to find out what it is.”
― Lisa Jewell, It Could Have Been Her

“The secrets of that strange house have been thrown like pages of a book into the sun and fallen all around as dark ashes of human depravity.”
― Lisa Jewell, It Could Have Been Her

“Jessamine sighs. ‘My mother,’ she says”
― Lisa Jewell, It Could Have Been Her

“The neglect; the black terror of being a child living in a house with addicts; the blurred lines of uncertainty and fear; the weak”
― Lisa Jewell, It Could Have Been Her

“But behind the dream were addiction”
― Lisa Jewell, It Could Have Been Her

“But she’s had a good life. She has more than most. She does not want to inspire pity. She wants to find Rose White. That is what she wants.”
― Lisa Jewell, It Could Have Been Her

“No need for a job when you live in an eighteen-bedroom stately home in the Cotswolds. No need for a job when you’re looking after three young motherless children”
― Lisa Jewell, It Could Have Been Her

“Invisibility is”
― Lisa Jewell, It Could Have Been Her