Guilty Quotes

“He sat most days on the Liffey boardwalk and thought about death, as Dominick must have done in those final weeks. He could easily acquire the tools he needed–a rope, a blade, tablets, a river–but death required energy and planning. He seemed incapable of doing anything that would stir him to action. Loss was a palsy shivering through him. It could not be endured. He took the bottle of whiskey from his backpack and drank from the neck.”
― Laura Elliot, Guilty

“Revenge has a strange taste, not sweet, nor nasty, just unpalatable, like prison food.”
― Laura Elliot, Guilty

“Fear is weakness. To show it is advantageous to the accuser.”
― Laura Elliot, Guilty

“He never sleeps at night, or so he tells her, staying awake with crosswords and books of poetry in case death comes calling in the small hours to catch him unawares.”
― Laura Elliot, Guilty

“How we deal with the knocks in our lives is what sets us up for the future.”
― Laura Elliot, Guilty

“Beginning again when you have lost everything is painful. Mistakes are easy to make. I allowed my mistakes to drag me down into a very dark place. Don’t go there,”
― Laura Elliot, Guilty

“I’m on my way.’ Amanda ends the call and sinks to her knees, presses her hands to”
― Laura Elliot, Guilty

“and burglar alarms wink from the walls of slumbering houses. A chink of light escapes between old Mr Shannon’s bedroom curtains. He never sleeps at night, or so he tells her, staying awake with crosswords and books of poetry in case death comes calling in the small hours to catch him unawares. In the room next door her parents are sleeping. Her father’s”
― Laura Elliot, Guilty

“Terrace. Street lamps pool the pavements and”
― Laura Elliot, Guilty

“When does an idea become a plan, he wondered; a plan turn to action and gain an irreversible thrust? Like a snake, he was shedding his old skin, and feeling lighter with each sloughing.”
― Laura Elliot, Guilty

“He had always imagined madness as a flailing hysteria, subdued only by restraint or drugs. Not this dulled indifference that slowed his footsteps and made even the most basic attempts at conversation impossible.”
― Laura Elliot, Guilty

“A teenager going out at night without her phone was akin to a snail leaving the shelter of its protective shell.”
― Laura Elliot, Guilty

“Hell was his dead niece whose disappearance had shattered everything he had taken for granted: trust, love, friendship, family bonds.”
― Laura Elliot, Guilty

“Revealing secrets gave them life. They mutated and were transformed once they belonged to someone else”
― Laura Elliot, Guilty

“The graffiti on display was a microcosm of the world outside. Undying vows of love, initials entwined. Hatreds twisted into tight, hard angles. Flourishes that promised to save humanity. Hammer fists that threatened to destroy it.”
― Laura Elliot, Guilty

“Perception makes a lot of noise and the truth can get lost in the hubbub.”
― Laura Elliot, Guilty