Silent Child Quotes

“Monsters are men and women just like us, and they have the ability to hide their true face.”
― Sarah A. Denzil, Silent Child

“No one wants to believe they are weak, but we all have weakness inside us. We have strength, too, but there are times when the circumstances in our lives are so overwhelming that we easily succumb to that weakness”
― Sarah A. Denzil, Silent Child

“I’ve heard it said that you can only control yourself and how you behave in any given setting. You can never control the circumstances around you. You can’t control how other people react, only how you, yourself, act. That’s the great tragedy of life. One moment everything is perfect and the next it’s all in tatters because of the circumstances happening all around you. And what are you supposed to think when your child is taken from you? That it was fate? God? Bad luck? How are you supposed to move on? When”
― Sarah A. Denzil, Silent Child

“No one should regret loving and trusting another human being. Yes, sometimes we direct our love and trust to the wrong person, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t have done it at all. Hearts should be protected, but they shouldn’t be forced to close.”
― Sarah A. Denzil, Silent Child

“Scorned. As if the jealousy of a lover could ever compete with the ferocity of a mother.”
― Sarah A. Denzil, Silent Child

“No one wants to believe they are weak, but we all have weakness inside us. We have strength, too, but there are times when the circumstances in our lives are so overwhelming that we easily succumb to that weakness.”
― Sarah A. Denzil, Silent Child

“Never say you hate someone or something unless you really mean it, because hate is not finding a presenter on the telly annoying, or losing your temper with a sibling—it’s an all-consuming living thing that starts in your bowels and infects your blood until it blackens your heart. And”
― Sarah A. Denzil, Silent Child

“But they don’t know what it’s truly like to lose control, and I’m not talking about my emotions, but about my life. I lost control of my life. Everything around me fell apart while I remained the impotent bystander. I’ve”
― Sarah A. Denzil, Silent Child

“You and me. We’ll be a team again, like we were when we lived at Nana’s house, remember? We fought crime, you and me. You were Superman, obviously, you had the cape. I was just your sidekick but you made sure we caught the baddies every time. We’re going to do that again, I promise.” And”
― Sarah A. Denzil, Silent Child

“If you get to live your life without ever experiencing hatred, then count yourself lucky.”
― Sarah A. Denzil, Silent Child

“I lost control of my life. Everything around me fell apart while I remained the impotent bystander. I’ve”
― Sarah A. Denzil, Silent Child

“She was someone who would hang around in the same circles as me, but not someone I would call on a Saturday night for a veg out and movie night.
--Silent Child”
― Sarah A. Denzil, Silent Child

“Wetherington. I had no idea”
― Sarah A. Denzil, Silent Child

“passé ? — Nous avons procédé à une arrestation qui peut ou non être pertinente pour l’enquête.”
― Sarah A. Denzil, Passé sous silence

“fenêtres pour laisser entrer la lumière. La cuisine était remplie à ras bord de casseroles en fonte accrochées aux poutres et de piles de lettres sur le réfrigérateur”
― Sarah A. Denzil, Passé sous silence

“hate is not finding a presenter on the telly annoying, or losing your temper with a sibling—it’s an all-consuming living thing that starts in your bowels and infects your blood until it blackens your heart.”
― Sarah A. Denzil, Silent Child

“Moments are what make this life, aren’t they? A life is built on moments; seconds passing by. Some seconds are fleeting—part of a silly dream, or chopping up vegetables, taking the rubbish out, trimming our nails. Some are not.”
― Sarah A. Denzil, Silent Child

“People are multi-layered. Anyone can have a private side that verges on the dark and dangerous. Your doctor could be a sadist. Your primary school teacher could be a paedophile. Your beauty therapist could be a murderer. It could be anything.”
― Sarah A. Denzil, Silent Child

“No one is as fickle as the public, and the reason they’re that fickle is that the media tell them how to think and how to feel.”
― Sarah A. Denzil, Silent Child

“I’d almost forgotten that bit. Aiden insisted on calling his dragon Walnut because my mum loved her Walnut Whips, and I was always teasing her about the walnut addiction. Somehow, Aiden latched onto the association between his Nana and the walnuts. Hearing the familiar name hit me in the gut with a bomb of emotion. It erupted through me, fireworks extending to my fingers and toes. That was what I used to have. That was my perfect, happy time.”
― Sarah A. Denzil, Silent Child

“I flinched. Sonya moved like a panther. Her voice cut through my own suffocating thoughts, jarring me back to reality. “Thanks.”
― Sarah A. Denzil, Silent Child

“suffocating”
― Sarah A. Denzil, Silent Child

“If you get to live your life without ever experiencing hatred, then count yourself lucky. Count your blessings. Hate isn’t something to crave or wish for. Never say you hate someone or something unless you really mean it, because hate is not finding a presenter on the telly annoying, or losing your temper with a sibling—it’s an all-consuming living thing that starts in your bowels and infects your blood until it blackens your heart. And I hated myself. That’s the worst kind of hate.”
― Sarah A. Denzil, Silent Child

“Quando cadi e tocchi il fondo, una strana forza nasce dalla debolezza.”
― Sarah A. Denzil, Silent Child

“They were normal reasons for a child coming to hospital. And when they went back to school they’d get all the signatures and doodles of their friends. They’d have fun stories to tell—“…and then next-door’s Doberman chased me over the fence but I caught my jeans and face-planted…”—and scars to show off. They would be louder and more boisterous for a while, emboldened by their escape from ‘death’. But not my son.”
― Sarah A. Denzil, Silent Child

“The withered piece of coal hidden deep in my chest had once been full of love.”
― Sarah A. Denzil, Silent Child

“If you get to live your life without ever experiencing hatred, then count yourself lucky. Count your blessings. Hate isn’t something to crave or wish for. Never say you hate someone or something unless you really mean it, because hate is not finding a presenter on the telly annoying, or losing your temper with a sibling—it’s an all-consuming living thing that starts in your bowels and infects your blood until it blackens your heart.”
― Sarah A. Denzil, Silent Child

“The urge to be sick rose again, but this time I swallowed it down. Chained. Confined. Kept like an animal in a cage. I’d studied psychology at school; I knew what that did to a child. I knew about the wolf children and the girl raised in a chicken coop. They were feral and traumatised, virtually unable to function, and certainly unable to integrate into society.”
― Sarah A. Denzil, Silent Child

“have to get Aiden,” I said, shaking my head. The school was too close to the river for me to feel comfortable leaving my six-year-old son with them. If the rain was already coming in through the roof, what state was the school in? “Be careful. I heard they’re sending help but there’s hardly anyone by the river right now, no police or anything, and it looks bad, Em. Don’t come back across the bridge, okay? Go to the White Horse or something. At least you can get a Chardonnay there, right?” She”
― Sarah A. Denzil, Silent Child

“The more I thought about it, the more I realised that we are all monsters. Yes. Us. We’re monsters. We enjoy reading about these stories. We’re the voyeurs of human suffering.”
― Sarah A. Denzil, Silent Child