A Double Life Quotes

“But there was never another version of him. I understand that now. He didn’t have a double life. No one does, there’s only ever one.”
― Flynn Berry, A Double Life

“only person watching them. She’d noticed that before with Colin. At large dinners, people a few seats down would stop eating and lean over to listen to him. Colin left James, and a moment later he appeared beside her with a bottle of wine and glasses for her and her father. He kissed Faye, checked his watch, and said, “When can we ask them all to leave?” “Well,” said Deborah, once the guests were gone. “That was a success.” She had arranged for them to borrow her friend’s house in Provence for their honeymoon. “Actually,” Faye had said, “we’re going to India.” And on their honeymoon a week later, in a coracle spinning on a river in Hampi, Faye gripped the straw edges of the boat and she laughed and laughed and laughed. — AFTER THEY WERE MARRIED, my parents often went on trips abroad with his friends, to rented villas in France, Sardinia, Mallorca. I visited the one in Mallorca when I was twenty-two, after saving for months to buy the ticket. I went in September, when the villa where they’d stayed was empty. A sign for a security system was posted”
― Flynn Berry, A Double Life

“He said he’d decided to think of the attack as he would, say, a bicycle accident. What would my life have been like if I’d made that decision.”
― Flynn Berry, A Double Life

“I started to think about what I needed to do to grow up into that sort of person, the sort of person who runs to help.”
― Flynn Berry, A Double Life

“I don't answer. I don't run or start screaming, because doing either would be like giving a signal for it to start. And because part of me is expectant, like I'm about to learn the answer to a question.”
― Flynn Berry, A Double Life

“There's a relief in knowing the truth-- a completion, a block finally dropping into place -- but I'm also so stricken it hurts to breathe, and weeping, my face hot, my hands clutching my stomach. I'd thought there might still be a way out of this. A notch in the circle through which all of us, even him, could escape.”
― Flynn Berry, A Double Life