The First One To Die Quotes

“No one could possibly understand what it meant to watch a person alter so drastically in front of them, to see them change and deteriorate until eventually there was just a hollow shell that no longer remotely resembled the person”
― Victoria Jenkins, The First One To Die

“The cruelty of time, thought Alex. The world kept spinning, clocks kept ticking: time didn’t stop for anyone’s tragedy.”
― Victoria Jenkins, The First One To Die

“Don’t let anyone or anything keep you from doing what’s best for you.”
― Victoria Jenkins, The First One To Die

“There was no wake to attend. No warm beer and barely filled sandwiches with curled-up corners. Death didn’t seem something to be celebrated,”
― Victoria Jenkins, The First One To Die

“suppose the point I’m trying to make is that you can’t let other people dictate your life. You’ve got to do what’s right for you, while the chance is there.”
― Victoria Jenkins, The First One To Die

“If you spoke something aloud, it made it real. Ignore it for long enough and it might go away. Only it never did. It festered and developed, usually evolving into something even more difficult to face.”
― Victoria Jenkins, The First One To Die

“I cannot say and I will not say that she is dead,’ she read. ‘She is just away. With a cheery smile and a wave of the hand, she has wandered into an unknown land—”
― Victoria Jenkins, The First One To Die

“The church in Monmouthshire was small, set back from sight of the main road behind a gathering of tall oak trees. There was little parking available, so”
― Victoria Jenkins, The First One To Die

“Losing a parent was difficult; when her father had died, she had thought she’d never get over it. The pain had been like a physical wound to her chest, one that she’d never fully recovered from but had learned to live with.”
― Victoria Jenkins, The First One To Die

“No one could know how difficult this was, not unless they had lived through the same thing.”
― Victoria Jenkins, The First One To Die

“Watching her mother’s decline had been slow and painful: the worst thing she had ever had to witness.”
― Victoria Jenkins, The First One To Die

“As with every other time, she wished they could go back and undo the things they’d said years earlier; try and do things differently, better this time.”
― Victoria Jenkins, The First One To Die

“Life was precious, though Alex realised she hadn’t always known it.”
― Victoria Jenkins, The First One To Die

“no amount of time was enough to absorb the shock of such a loss. People just found – somehow – a way to adapt; their bodies continued to function, yet their minds would never exist in the same way again. Life went on, but lives stopped.”
― Victoria Jenkins, The First One To Die

“People just found – somehow – a way to adapt; their bodies continued to function, yet their minds would never exist in the same way again. Life went on, but lives stopped.”
― Victoria Jenkins, The First One To Die

“The world kept spinning, clocks kept ticking: time didn’t stop for anyone’s tragedy. Tomorrow the world would carry on as though Keira North had never existed.”
― Victoria Jenkins, The First One To Die