From the Cradle Quotes

“her face was bleak and empty. She opened”
― Louise Voss, From the Cradle

“that”
― Louise Voss, From the Cradle

“whispers over”
― Louise Voss, From the Cradle

“A couple of years ago she used to have fantasies about being in hospital, leg in plaster after perhaps a car crash, or an incident in which she had rescued a baby from a burning building or something. In her imagination she would lie there while all her friends and family crowded around her bed, cooing with sympathy. One Direction would come and visit her themselves, in person, and bring flowers because she was a heroine. Zayn would fall in love with her and they’d become a couple. She’d be in the papers.”
― Louise Voss, From the Cradle

“it. I’ll study really really hard. Please let me get out of this. In a way, it was almost a relief to know she was going to meet”
― Louise Voss, From the Cradle

“Happiness, security, the purity of family. What life was all about.”
― Louise Voss, From the Cradle

“Tomorrow we’ll be back at the grindstone, and today was hell, but this evening is neither one nor the other.”
― Louise Voss, From the Cradle