Dark Place to Hide Quotes

“First impressions,’ says Tara pensively, ‘they can set your heart on fire, but they never warn you about the disasters ahead.’ Diane”
― A.J. Waines, Dark Place to Hide

“The novel you started is still here. I pick it up, flick through the pages. That’s odd. You told me you’ve read at bedtime ever since you were a child and can’t do without it – you say it’s a vital comfort that helps you get off to sleep.”
― A.J. Waines, Dark Place to Hide

“The first time I met you, five years ago now, I felt a solid certainty that we had not only met before, but that we’d existed together in some other setting and timeframe far removed from this one.”
― A.J. Waines, Dark Place to Hide

“Even now in the mornings, I prop myself up on one elbow and quietly watch your face with the sublime satisfaction of knowing you’re in my bed, inches away from me, breathing the same air. You continue to light up the room whenever you enter, even after our three years as Dr and Mrs Penn. Nothing”
― A.J. Waines, Dark Place to Hide

“I can’t help but smile. This is so like you: to turn towards making things better, always facing the light instead of the darkness.”
― A.J. Waines, Dark Place to Hide

“I wake and in those first fuddled moments forget you’re not here. I must have been dreaming about you – a tense, erotic dream. I reach out in bed to the place your body should be. It’s cold and there is no hollow. Even the bed is forgetting you.”
― A.J. Waines, Dark Place to Hide