The Girl Before You Quotes

“These violent delights have violent ends.”
― Nicola Rayner, The Girl Before You

“There is a moment,’ she holds up a finger as if giving a soliloquy on stage, ‘when something stops being a source of pleasure and becomes a source of pain. It is so precise, so exact, it could be plotted on a graph.”
― Nicola Rayner, The Girl Before You

“She had read recently about the effect of losing a long-term partner being like a loss of self because it was, actually, in a way, a loss of yourself. We store memories in other people:”
― Nicola Rayner, The Girl Before You

“Christie, she noticed, never drank too much. She sipped her drinks, put them down for long stretches of time, and seemed to listen intently to other people without saying a huge amount herself.”
― Nicola Rayner, The Girl Before You