Look Behind You Quotes

“Why does anyone stay in a relationship that deep down they know isn’t right? You don’t know why until it happens to you. It’s easy to fool yourself. To stuff things under the surface where they can’t hurt you. To persuade yourself it’s all just normal. Make excuses. There’s a fine line between craziness and love.”
― Sibel Hodge, Look Behind You

“Your confidence and self-esteem have withered away, but the very person you want to get away from is the one you rely on most. And you don’t know when it happened. Can’t pinpoint an exact day, week, or month, because it’s a gradual, subtle process. It creeps up on you slowly. So slowly that you don’t realize you’re bending, breaking, and becoming a different person. A woman who’s not happy, not living her own life, but the life her husband wants instead.”
― Sibel Hodge, Look Behind You

“Physical wounds can heal, can’t they? But it takes a long time to recover from having your self-confidence and self-esteem crushed to nothing. I watched him smother the life right out of her”
― Sibel Hodge, Look Behind You

“It’s why I picked you. You were feisty and independent, but if you scratched just under the surface, you were vulnerable and fragile. It’s so easy to mould someone into what you want. Watch them turn into your perfect woman and know that it’s all just for you. Their energy dies, and they become compliant and eager to please. It’s all just a matter of control and time.”
― Sibel Hodge, Look Behind You

“She worked three jobs to support us. Eventually, she got strong again. And there was never another argument in the house. We didn’t have to walk round on eggshells all the time. There was no more trying to anticipate his moods that controlled the whole family. I think my childhood really began the day we moved out.’ ‘She sounds brave.’ ‘She is. It’s just such a shame it took her so long to realize it.”
― Sibel Hodge, Look Behind You

“Suddenly, Liam grabbed hold of me and pushed me hard against the wall, his mouth on mine, his excitement pressing against my thigh. I tried to push him away, tried to say I wasn’t in the mood after his outburst, but in the end, I thought it best to go along with it. I hated the angry Liam, who either sulked and wouldn’t speak to me for days, or berated me and made snide comments and told me how everything was my fault. So I did nothing when he lifted up my dress and yanked my knickers down, ripping them in the process. Did nothing when he picked me up and dropped me roughly onto the stairs, the hard wooden corners digging into my spine. And when he shoved himself inside me, I pretended I was as excited as him. It was better that way. Easier for me.”
― Sibel Hodge, Look Behind You

“I think you tried to take an overdose of sleeping tablets and had another reaction to them before you could take enough to finish off the job.”
― Sibel Hodge, Look Behind You

“The only time Liam ever wears trainers is when he goes to the gym at work early in the morning before he starts his day.”
― Sibel Hodge, Look Behind You

“But people hide things in layers. No one really knows someone else—not until they live with the person.”
― Sibel Hodge, Look Behind You

“Is anyone really happy? I mean, you look at other people’s lives and you think they have a great job or a great marriage and they seem so happy, but you’re only seeing what they want you to see.”
― Sibel Hodge, Look Behind You

“Trust. Five small letters that can have such a big effect on your life.”
― Sibel Hodge, Look Behind You

“There’s a fine line between craziness and love.”
― Sibel Hodge, Look Behind You

“Is that what you think he’ll do? Bang on”
― Sibel Hodge, Look Behind You

“No. I know me. I know I’m not bloody losing it. I’m the sane one. It’s everyone else who’s the problem.”
― Sibel Hodge, Look Behind You

“He never hit her, but who needs fists when words can slice through you like a scalpel? Physical wounds can heal, can’t they? But it takes a long time to recover from having your self-confidence and self-esteem crushed to nothing.”
― Sibel Hodge, Look Behind You

“The worst of it is in my head. Hot, white shards of pain stabbing my skull.”
― Sibel Hodge, Look Behind You

“Teaching is one of the few things I’ve managed to hang”
― Sibel Hodge, Look Behind You