Watching You Quotes

“Because that's the thing with getting what you want: all that yearning and dreaming and fantasizing leaves a great big hole that can only be filled with more yearning and dreaming and fantasizing.”
― Lisa Jewell, Watching You

“She wondered if that was how it worked, that while most women spent their lives searching for the perfect man, men sat around waiting to be chosen and then made the best of it.”
― Lisa Jewell, Watching You

“Babies did that to you: they pinned you down in the moment at precisely the same time as hurtling you into the future and hitching you back to the past.”
― Lisa Jewell, Watching You

“Because that’s the thing with getting what you want: all that yearning and dreaming and fantasizing leaves a great big hole that can only be filled with more yearning and dreaming and fantasizing.”
― Lisa Jewell, Watching You

“When she left, she took with her any sense I had of myself as a worthwhile person. Without her I was just this blank space. When she died my whole world turned black.”
― Lisa Jewell, Watching You

“Like I might be about to do something really, really stupid. And knowing I'm going to do it isn't going to stop it from happening.”
― Lisa Jewell, Watching You

“But what do you do with an unattainable crush once it's yours to keep? What does it become? Should there perhaps be a word to describe it? Because that's the thing with getting what you want: all that yearning and dreaming and fantasizing leaves a great big hole that can only be filled with more yearning and dreaming and fantasizing.”
― Lisa Jewell, Watching You

“But nothing was often everything in forensics. Nothing could often be the answer to the whole bloody thing.”
― Lisa Jewell, Watching You

“But until you’ve experienced the incredible mix of emotions that a sibling brings to your life it’s really very hard to imagine. The love and the hate, the fun and the fights, the rivalry and the kinship. No one else knows your world like a sibling does. They’re there, every crap summer holiday, every day off school, every time your parents argue, every boring Christmas Day, every birthday party, they’re there. And they are a part of you.”
― Lisa Jewell, Watching You

“Freddie couldn’t help himself sometimes. His dad was just so fucking perfect. Or at least that was the overriding narrative. Amazing Tom Fitzwilliam. Isn’t he handsome? Isn’t he clever? Isn’t he charming? Isn’t he tall? Hasn’t he got an enormously huge dick? Well, no one had ever actually said that, but he did. Freddie had seen it.”
― Lisa Jewell, Watching You

“We're all different.”
― Lisa Jewell, Watching You

“being a grown-up is not about getting married, about smart flats and reading groups; it’s about taking responsibility for your own actions and the consequences of those actions.”
― Lisa Jewell, Watching You

“And you will always be so much more than a label.”
― Lisa Jewell, Watching You

“She felt a terrible hollowness open up inside her, a sense that she was all alone, that she had in fact always been all alone, that the corners of her life were folding in and folding in, and that there was nothing she could do about it.”
― Lisa Jewell, Watching You

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― Lisa Jewell, Watching You

“Voyeurism was a form of control, like mental abuse, like rape, like bullying. It was nothing to do with the physicality of the action, and all to do with the feeling of power it gave the perpetrator, the balancing out of delicate ids and egos.”
― Lisa Jewell, Watching You

“I can see why he might send some more, you know, vulnerable people a bit over the edge. He’s very charismatic. Very attractive. And he has this charm about him. Dashing, almost. As if he could save you from yourself.”
― Lisa Jewell, Watching You

“Because she had no idea how to pay attention to her own instincts, she was incapable of taking control of her own destiny.”
― Lisa Jewell, Watching You

“Someone once said to her that the key to a happy life was making good decisions. But making good decisions was beyond her because she could always see an infinity of outcomes and all of them seemed good for at least a moment.”
― Lisa Jewell, Watching You

“He looked at her in awe and wonder as something rushed up through his core, something buried deep under years of denial. The little prep school in Manchester where they’d taken him out of class one day and he’d been observed by a woman with a clipboard and some weird toys and his parents had been called in and he’d sat in the office outside with the lady who worked at the front desk and he’d eaten an apple and they’d come out and they’d looked worried and they’d taken him out for tea and the atmosphere had been wrong and strange and then his mum had said, Your teacher thinks maybe you have a special brain.”
― Lisa Jewell, Watching You

“Joey tried to think of some arrangement of words to puncture the silence that wouldn’t make things more awkward than they already were, but failed.”
― Lisa Jewell, Watching You

“Come here,” he said, big freckled arms spread apart, “I’ll hug it away for you.” She acquiesced although part of her wanted to shout, A hug is not always the right answer, you know. But as she felt his arms around her, his warm breath against the crown of her head, she thought that it might not be an answer, but it was certainly better than yet another question.”
― Lisa Jewell, Watching You

“Did you move the recycling bin this morning?
Yes. I did move it.
Why?
There was a cat stuck behind it.
What cat???
Christ, now even the local cats were in on it.”
― Lisa Jewell, Watching You

“POLICE: Thank”
― Lisa Jewell, Watching You

“Instead I let the shock of seeing her sit in the pit of my stomach like a poisonous seed. I let it grow and grow and grow until it consumed me,”
― Lisa Jewell, Watching You

“But Jenna headed away from them, leaving Ruby and Tiana standing staring after her, eyes wide and hungry for scraps.”
― Lisa Jewell, Watching You

“while most women spent their lives searching for the perfect man, men sat around waiting to be chosen and then made the best of it”
― Lisa Jewell, Watching You

“But until you've experienced the incredible mix of emotions that a sibling brings your life it's really very hard to imagine. The love and the hate, the fun and the fights, the rivalry and the kinship. No one else knows your world like a sibling does. They're there, every crap summer holiday, every day off school, every time your parents argue, every boring Christmas Day, every birthday party, they're there. And they are a part of you.”
― Lisa Jewell, Watching You

“being a grown-up is not about getting married, about smart flats and reading groups; it’s about taking responsibility for your own actions and the consequences of those actions. So yes, I’m getting there, Mum. I’m definitely getting there,”
― Lisa Jewell, Watching You

“I’m still me, Mum, wherever I go in the world, I’m still just me.”
― Lisa Jewell, Watching You