Quieter Than Killing Quotes

“Violence,’ someone had once told Marnie, ‘isn’t what you think it is. It isn’t someone bursting into your home in the middle of the night. It’s a soft knock on the door in daylight. A knock that tells you the person outside has brought the worst possible news. News that’s going to change your life forever. Violence is waiting for a knock on the door, and realising your whole life is that knock.’

Violence isn’t what you think it is. And punishment isn’t prison. It’s waiting for that soft knock on the door. It’s never being free.”
― Sarah Hilary, Quieter Than Killing

“You always always put family first, no matter how rotten. A bad family’s better than an empty sty. You don’t cut off a stinking finger.”
― Sarah Hilary, Quieter Than Killing

“Never interrupt your enemy when she’s making a mistake.’ ‘Napoleon?”
― Sarah Hilary, Quieter Than Killing

“Moving forward was momentum, you just had to keep doing it.”
― Sarah Hilary, Quieter Than Killing

“A knock that tells you the person outside has brought the worst possible news. News that’s going to change your life forever. Violence is waiting for a knock on the door, and realising your whole life is that knock.”
― Sarah Hilary, Quieter Than Killing

“Violence,’ someone had once told Marnie, ‘isn’t what you think it is. It isn’t someone bursting into your home in the middle of the night. It’s a soft knock on the door in daylight.”
― Sarah Hilary, Quieter Than Killing