Come A Little Closer Quotes

“what would it be?”
― Rachel Abbott, Come A Little Closer

“Esme DuPont.”
― Rachel Abbott, Come A Little Closer

“we’ve”
― Rachel Abbott, Come A Little Closer

“Trust takes years to build, seconds to break, and forever to repair.”
― Rachel Abbott, Come A Little Closer

“want to ask her more questions, but she is like a deer – slender, beautiful, with those great big eyes that seem frightened into flight by the slightest movement. So I wait.”
― Rachel Abbott, Come A Little Closer

“All I can make out is a slight figure with tied-back dark hair and the biggest pair of brown eyes I have ever seen.”
― Rachel Abbott, Come A Little Closer

“I am beyond frustration; I am a boiling cauldron of rage.”
― Rachel Abbott, Come A Little Closer

“Don’t worry. People can hide their true selves until the chips are down, and then we get to see the ugly side. Nobody’s nice when a relationship is ending. There’s a desire to hurt as much as you’ve been hurt yourself, and only the strongest behave with dignity.”
― Rachel Abbott, Come A Little Closer

“It wasn’t just his secret, though. It could end Tom’s career, even send him to prison. And Philippa Stanley, who knew exactly what Tom had done, could suffer a similar fate. Worse still, it could result in an evil bastard, who was currently rotting in jail, getting the revenge he so badly sought.”
― Rachel Abbott, Come A Little Closer

“cyanosis in her face. I know it’s not a sure thing, but that would normally indicate hypoxia.”
― Rachel Abbott, Come A Little Closer

“They can say anything they like, and with no friends or colleagues in common to tell you anything different, you believe every word. At least, I did.”
― Rachel Abbott, Come A Little Closer

“Idon’t know myself any more. My life is unrecognisable – severed into two distinct periods: before – when I could feel the wind on my skin, watch the sky turn from blue to black, hear the birds singing in the morning, smell the earth, damp with rain; and after – the life I am in now, where I cannot tell if it is night or day and the only sound I hear is the slap, slap of bare feet on a linoleum floor.”
― Rachel Abbott, Come A Little Closer

“Anger has always reduced me to tears in the past, but not today. I don’t for a single moment feel like crying. I am beyond frustration; I am a boiling cauldron of rage.”
― Rachel Abbott, Come A Little Closer

“prefer hunger to going to the trouble of making something to eat.”
― Rachel Abbott, Come A Little Closer