The Good Sister Quotes

“He made me somehow see that life didn't have to be experienced in a big way, and that happiness was small, really.”
― Gillian McAllister, No Further Questions

“What we were we are; we always will be.”
― Gillian McAllister, No Further Questions

“Quit, if you want to,” she says. “Life’s too short to staple dead Dalmatians to chairs forever.”
― Gillian McAllister, The Good Sister

“My lens is wide-angle. Hers is narrow, but clearer. I like the hyper-logic of it.”
― Gillian McAllister, No Further Questions

“Deep breaths in and out. Feelings weren’t feelings. They were tangled mixtures of hormones: cortisol, adrenaline, rushing through her system, telling her lies. She knew this, and still they felt real.”
― Gillian McAllister, No Further Questions

“have no desire to become a high flyer, a traveler, a big shot. I just want life to be a little better. A little easier. To make money doing something I enjoy.”
― Gillian McAllister, The Good Sister

“Some sort of self-sabotage, as if she didn’t care what got damaged in the process of proving her point. Including herself.”
― Gillian McAllister, The Good Sister

“They had become lazy about their own relationship, and that idleness had killed it. It had been amazing how easy it had been to fall out of love. It took hardly any effort at all.”
― Gillian McAllister, The Good Sister

“I can have as much fun in the bakery aisle of Sainsbury’s as in a club in Ibiza. It’s all about attitude.”
― Gillian McAllister, No Further Questions

“can have as much fun in the bakery aisle of Sainsbury’s as in a club in Ibiza. It’s all about attitude.”
― Gillian McAllister, No Further Questions

“Murder is committed where a person of sound mind and discretion unlawfully kills … with intent to kill or cause grievous bodily harm.”
― Gillian McAllister, No Further Questions

“In order to recover, I need to understand it.”
― Gillian McAllister, No Further Questions

“Keeping a small human fed, clean and happy was the biggest undertaking of my life. It’s impossible to explain the juggernaut of motherhood to anybody who hasn’t been there: the vast reorientation that takes place in the labour suite and never really rights itself again or, rather, doesn’t need to.”
― Gillian McAllister, No Further Questions

“Those were the best times. In a posh toilet in a restaurant. In the garden at a New Year’s Eve party. Temporarily alone, with the bubble of my family waiting just inside, in the next room, just over there.”
― Gillian McAllister, No Further Questions

“I want to believe her. I want her to be innocent so badly, I can’t trust my own judgement.”
― Gillian McAllister, No Further Questions