Gallows Rock Quotes

“For all their innocence, children were no fools.”
― Yrsa Sigurðardóttir, Gallows Rock

“The fact he couldn't control his temper was what brought him down in the end. There's a kind of poetic justice to that, don't you think?”
― Yrsa Sigurðardóttir, Gallows Rock

“The relationship between victim and abuser made them far trickier to deal with than most of the crimes that reached the police”
― Yrsa Sigurðardóttir, Gallows Rock

“If abusers could find a way of isolating their victims, it was much easier to hide the evidence of their violence and reduce the risk that someone would intervene.”
― Yrsa Sigurðardóttir, Gallows Rock

“Children were affected differently by this kind of trauma and some fared better than others. demonstrating an ability to call on mysterious inner reserves of strength.”
― Yrsa Sigurðardóttir, Gallows Rock

“Anyway, there wasn't much I could say to the man that he didn't already know. If abusive partners won't change their behaviour for their family - for the people closest to them - they're hardly likely to do so because we order them to. But he was shaken. I allowed myself to hope that the fear of being exposed might have some effect,”
― Yrsa Sigurðardóttir, Gallows Rock

“I thought the public would be pleased to see us. It was a bit of a comedown when l discovered that nobody wants us around. They have to be literally on the ground -with a lunatic crouching over them with a knife before they're happy for us to be there. After all, nobody needs us when everything's peachy. So when we do turn up. we tend to be the bearers of bad news. lt's not surprising, when you stop to think about it, so I should have been prepared.”
― Yrsa Sigurðardóttir, Gallows Rock