Blood Orange Quotes

“We don't need drink to be pleasant”
― Harriet Tyce, Blood Orange

“And actions have consequences. I know I keep saying the phrase, but it’s one of my therapist’s favourites, and I think it’s a really good one to bear in mind.”
― Harriet Tyce, Blood Orange

“And actions have consequences. I know I keep saying the phrase, but it’s one of my therapist’s favourites, and I think it’s a really good one to bear in mind.’ The”
― Harriet Tyce, Blood Orange

“She and I have both let our husbands tell us how to feel bad about ourselves, carrying all the guilt for failures that belong to them too.”
― Harriet Tyce, Blood Orange

“At least I stopped us from having another, when I saw what you were like.”
― Harriet Tyce, Blood Orange

“You might look like a bit of a slapper, Alison, but you’re my slapper.”
― Harriet Tyce, Blood Orange

“Alison, leave her.’ Carl pushes me to one side and picks Matilda up. He holds her close, turning to face me over her shoulder. He looks at me with disappointment. ‘I wish you’d think more.’ ‘I do think . . .’ I start to say. He interrupts, ‘I just worry about Matilda being exposed to second-hand smoke.’ ‘I’m not. I don’t think my clothes smell. It’s the house . . .’ My words trail off. ‘It’s clearly not the house. No one’s allowed to smoke in the house. Just get your suit dry-cleaned and tell your clients they can’t smoke in front of you. Think about Matilda.”
― Harriet Tyce, Blood Orange

“We did, but not anymore. You’ve made that abundantly clear. And I think you’re a damaging, toxic person, Alison. You’re entirely selfish. Almost narcissistic. Matilda needs to have you out of her life, and I’ll do everything in my power to ensure that happens.”
― Harriet Tyce, Blood Orange

“That’s illegal, Carl. This is illegal. You can’t hack into people’s phones like this. It’s not admissible evidence.’ ‘Who’s talking about evidence? I’m not trying to take it to court.”
― Harriet Tyce, Blood Orange

“Madeleine used the phrase as a mother. It’s never a phrase that goes anywhere good, usually crowbarred in to justify some particularly conservative or repressive piece of thinking. I’ve always tried to avoid thinking about myself as a mother”
― Harriet Tyce, Blood Orange

“Her accounts have been inconsistent, the conferences with her trying and over-emotional. But in her position, what would I have done differently? I believe what she’s said about Edwin’s abuse of her, and I understand”
― Harriet Tyce, Blood Orange

“But the thought of the violence, the fear, the anger, the heartbreak that she’s suffered and her son’s suffered, the thought of all the men through all the ages who’ve got away with this kind of shit time and time again”
― Harriet Tyce, Blood Orange

“Yes,’ she says. ‘Yes, James stabbed Edwin. His father. Edwin beat me once too often, hurt James for the last time. It was James who snapped, not me. And as a mother, what do you suggest I do now?’ It’s a hiss but it cuts through the air as loud as a shout.”
― Harriet Tyce, Blood Orange

“Madeleine’s face goes entirely still. The fury in her eyes is such that in a different story I’d be turned to stone, no question. I look back at her, my eyes level with hers, refusing to let her anger beat me back. I’ve weathered worse than this: Carl, Patrick, all of it. I’m not going to be beaten by my client,”
― Harriet Tyce, Blood Orange

“But as her barrister . . . I know there’s something that doesn’t feel right, something I’m missing, just out of the corner of my eye. I stop telling her about the limitations of mitigation and steel myself.”
― Harriet Tyce, Blood Orange

“It’s so sad . . . He had so much to offer, so much to live for. Well, if only he’d been able to control himself better. A fatal flaw. He was such a good boss – I was due to become a full partner soon, too.”
― Harriet Tyce, Blood Orange

“This is all your fault, you stupid bitch! You’ve fucked up our marriage and you’ve lost our daughter. For fuck’s sake!”
― Harriet Tyce, Blood Orange

“Because the last time I looked at the law on murder, it seemed pretty clear-cut that sticking a knife into someone repeatedly is pretty damn illegal. If you’ll pardon my pun.”
― Harriet Tyce, Blood Orange

“Alison, I’m not dealing with this. You sort it out – actions have consequences, and this isn’t just going to go away. I’m leaving now. I’ll book the room for another night so you can get it all cleaned up, but I’m going home. Don’t come back until you’re fit to be around Matilda.”
― Harriet Tyce, Blood Orange

“I’ve gone wrong, what I’ve done to make you so unhappy that you always get so drunk.”
― Harriet Tyce, Blood Orange

“I asked the hotel if they’d take the alcohol out of the room. We don’t need drink to have a good time.’ ‘Did you actually just say that? You sanctimonious prick.”
― Harriet Tyce, Blood Orange

“He did go too far. He’d make all the decisions for us. For me. And I didn’t mind. It was a relief to have someone take over. I loved him so much, I just wanted him to be happy. And I wasn’t always good at making him happy. I fucked up a lot.”
― Harriet Tyce, Blood Orange

“Every conversation that you have with us, your lawyers, is privileged. That means that it’s entirely confidential, and no one can make us tell them what you’ve said.”
― Harriet Tyce, Blood Orange

“All so much in common, abusive childhoods leading to abuse of alcohol and drugs, deprivation and a desperation that sometimes externalised itself in raging demands”
― Harriet Tyce, Blood Orange

“For a moment I imagine skipping through the waves like the playful portraits seen in a certain kind of holiday cottage. Later I’d eat fish and chips on the beach, wrapped up against the October chill blowing off the North Sea before lighting a fire in the wood-burning stove in my perfectly appointed house.”
― Harriet Tyce, Blood Orange

“Looking up at them, I feel smaller and stockier than usual, a workhorse to their thoroughbred elegance.”
― Harriet Tyce, Blood Orange

“So it”
― Harriet Tyce, Blood Orange

“going”
― Harriet Tyce, Blood Orange

“told her mum, who reported him to”
― Harriet Tyce, Blood Orange

“The affair for me was solace and escape, a relief because I was wanted and not pushed to side.”
― Harriet Tyce, Blood Orange