The Retreat Quotes

“If I enter a house with no books it makes me uneasy. I wonder what’s wrong with the people who live there.”
― Mark Edwards, The Retreat

“What if I fall? Oh, my darling, but what if you FLY?”
― Mark Edwards, The Retreat

“The more people we can turn on to the joy of reading, the better the world will be.”
― Mark Edwards, The Retreat

“I seem to recall I was simultaneously lacking in confidence and thought I knew everything about the world.”
― Mark Edwards, The Retreat

“Some people just don’t appreciate what they’ve got.’ Karen raised an eyebrow.”
― Mark Edwards, The Retreat

“Witches were just clever women that men couldn’t tame, weren’t they? Women who wouldn’t conform.”
― Mark Edwards, The Retreat

“«Si pasa esto, todo será perfecto, por fin seré feliz…», te convences a ti mismo de que eso solucionará toda tu vida. Y luego pasa ese algo. —Y no soluciona toda tu vida.”
― Mark Edwards, El retiro

“It’s like I dived into that river two years ago. And I’m still under the water, holding my breath.”
― Mark Edwards, The Retreat

“I bought the drinks and sat at a round table with Karen, Max and Suzi. Karen was as cheerful as she’d been the day before, but Max and Suzi would barely look at each other. A lovers’ tiff? Max swiftly downed his pint of bitter and announced he was going to play on the quiz machine. I watched him jabbing at the buttons and swearing under his breath”
― Mark Edwards, The Retreat

“When ‘Karma Police’ came on the radio, I had to turn it off. It hurt too much.”
― Mark Edwards, The Retreat

“It was time to go back into the dark. ‘What are you thinking?’ Jamie had asked. ‘That it’s time to go home,’ I replied.”
― Mark Edwards, The Retreat

“I had a knot in my stomach the size of Hawaii.”
― Mark Edwards, The Retreat

“I was in a pit, wallowing in self-pity, and I wanted to dig myself out but the shovel was too heavy, my limbs too weak. Everything was too much effort.”
― Mark Edwards, The Retreat

“clambered onto the roof of the car – which”
― Mark Edwards, The Retreat