The Widow Quotes

“I remember looking at him lying there in a small pool of blood and thinking ‘oh well, that’s the end of his nonsense”
― Fiona Barton, The Widow

“The simple lies are the hardest, funnily enough. The big ones seem to just fall off the tongue:”
― Fiona Barton, The Widow

“It's a strange feeling, owning a secret. It's like a stone in my stomach, crushing my insides and making me feel sick every time I think of it.”
― Fiona Barton, The Widow

“Addicts are brilliant liars, Inspector. They lie to themselves and then to everyone else. They’re in denial about their problem, and they are experts at finding excuses and other people to blame,”
― Fiona Barton, The Widow

“All I can think is: Jake and Freddie. What lovely names. I stash them away for later, for my collection,”
― Fiona Barton, The Widow

“Funny how she keeps using my name. Like a nurse. Or a con man.”
― Fiona Barton, The Widow

“But Bella’s disappearance brought us together. Made us a real couple. I always said we needed a child.”
― Fiona Barton, The Widow

“Glen didn’t really figure in my plans—he wouldn’t have approved, and I didn’t want those pursed lips wrecking my daydreams.”
― Fiona Barton, The Widow

“Funny things, birthdays. Everyone seems to love them, but I dread them—the buildup, the pressure to be happy, to have a good time, the disappointment when I don’t.”
― Fiona Barton, The Widow

“When you’re talking to real people—people without an ego or something to sell—it can be complete exposure of one person to another, an intense intimacy that excludes everyone and everything else,”
― Fiona Barton, The Widow

“walk”
― Fiona Barton, The Widow

“No one wanted to know us now. They just wanted to know about us.”
― Fiona Barton, The Widow

“Nothing out of place. Normal to the point of abnormal.”
― Fiona Barton, The Widow

“He looks like the bloke next door, was Sparks's first thought. But then, monsters rarely look the part. You hope you'll be able to see the evil shining out of them. It would make police work a damn sight easier, he often said. But evil was a slippery substance, glimpsed only occasionally, and all the more horrifying for that, he knew.”
― Fiona Barton, The Widow

“I've always believed in luck. I love the fact that people can change their lives instantly.”
― Fiona Barton, The Widow

“The computer was more of a wife than I was. In all sorts of ways, as it turned out.”
― Fiona Barton, The Widow

“Sparkes plowed on. “And that’s just the university staff.” The joke fell to the ground, writhing. “Right,” the chief super said. “Okay, she’s qualified, but why her and not our”
― Fiona Barton, The Widow

“And we were in too deep for me to walk away. I’d lied for him. It”
― Fiona Barton, The Widow

“Wednesday’s child is full of woe. The”
― Fiona Barton, The Widow

“neighbors’ doors, but no one had seen him”
― Fiona Barton, The Widow

“I didn’t think the police would see me in the middle of all those hundreds of names, but, of course, they see everything.”
― Fiona Barton, The Widow

“she walked in, dark suit and black mood stark against the white tablecloths.”
― Fiona Barton, The Widow