Where the Memories Lie Quotes

“And when the memories lie, sometimes it's best to let the truth stay hidden”
― Sibel Hodge, Where the Memories Lie

“By the time they found her remains, I hadn't thought about her for years. I'd been too busy getting on with my life. A life I thought was normal.”
― Sibel Hodge, Where the Memories Lie

“A loud noise from what sounded like a hammer drill reverberated through the windows.”
― Sibel Hodge, Where the Memories Lie

“pushed that thought to the back of my mind. We all had it to varying degrees, didn’t we?”
― Sibel Hodge, Where the Memories Lie

“for her GCSEs. All twelve of them. Yes, twelve! I thought they worked the kids much too hard these days. Charlotte barely had any spare time with the amount of homework she’d been given in the last few years.”
― Sibel Hodge, Where the Memories Lie

“slightly. I scrape the peppers from the chopping board into a frying pan and grab some mushrooms and an onion from the fridge.”
― Sibel Hodge, Where the Memories Lie

“snap decision to end it all before life became too much? Or had he killed himself because”
― Sibel Hodge, Where the Memories Lie

“That’s right. She went to Spain on holiday, didn’t she?’ he carried on, forehead crinkled up, thinking. ‘Oh, it’s nice in Spain.’ He shrugged and glanced back out of the window. ‘They have these strange bits and pieces of dinner. Taps.”
― Sibel Hodge, Where the Memories Lie

“But how far would you go to protect the ones you love?”
― Sibel Hodge, Where the Memories Lie

“You have the microwave and I’ll have the ornamental frog, you bastard! No, I want the frog, you bitch – you never loved it like I did!”
― Sibel Hodge, Where the Memories Lie

“Hanging over what you did and what you thought, until jealousy and suspicion sucked the life out of anything you had left.”
― Sibel Hodge, Where the Memories Lie

“You always take life for granted, don’t you? You think you’ve got years and years ahead of you so you plan all this stuff you’re going to do in the future. I wonder how much time we waste being unhappy, doing things we don’t want to, never fulfilling ourselves, because we think there’s all this time left when we’ll finally get round to doing what we want. Except there isn’t. Life can change in a split second. It can all go wrong in one shattered moment. And then it’s too late to do the things we put off. Too late to live the dreams we’ve been dreaming of all this time.”
― Sibel Hodge, Where the Memories Lie

“Not big ones, anyway. Not important I’ve-just-killed-someone”
― Sibel Hodge, Where the Memories Lie

“blanket. Lucas called Charlotte and Anna out of the sea to take our places and I lay back on my towel next to Nadia, closing my eyes.”
― Sibel Hodge, Where the Memories Lie

“about a man called John Hamilton who’d gone missing a week ago from Scotland.”
― Sibel Hodge, Where the Memories Lie

“I really tried not to sound snarky, but it didn’t work.”
― Sibel Hodge, Where the Memories Lie

“There’s no getting around that, and sometimes you just have to face your fears. Sometimes the fear of doing something is worse than actually doing it.”
― Sibel Hodge, Where the Memories Lie