The Betrayals Quotes

“You know, what I hate most about him is the person he makes me into.”
― Bridget Collins, The Betrayals

“Sometimes I wonder whether any of us tells the truth about anything.”
― Bridget Collins, The Betrayals

“These are the times that scare her the most, the beginnings and endings: this is when the world is most unpredictable.”
― Bridget Collins, The Betrayals

“She has learnt the hard way to protect herself, to keep herself closed, never to give herself away.”
― Bridget Collins, The Betrayals

“If everything in your life was based on a lie, would you risk it all to tell the truth?”
― Bridget Collins, The Betrayals

“There are times when you feel more alone here than if you were the last person left on Eath”
― Bridget Collins, The Betrayals

“He stares at the wall. Mad. Of course he doesn't love her. Not love. Desire, yes, although she's prickly, plain, rebarbative. Desire because he's lonely and frustrated, because she makes him laugh and think and work for her approval, desire because he was drunk and because she looked so much like Carfax in a certain light... But that's all. Nothing more. Nothing more than a lightening of the heart when she smiles at him, a fierce raw happiness that she exists, that they're under the same roof, that for a few seconds, she didn't push him away. A sense that whatever game they're playing, it's at the centre of the universe. Is that love?”
― Bridget Collins, The Betrayals

“We’re all as human here as anywhere else.”
― Bridget Collins, The Betrayals

“It hits him like a draught of water when he didn’t realise he was thirsty, like the first drag of a cigarette or the first mouthful of a Martini. He smiles back. For maybe half a second the world hangs immobile, the space between them singing.”
― Bridget Collins, The Betrayals

“She's read about all this. She's never done it. He pauses, as if he's overheard her thought. 'Are we mad enough to do this?' 'Yes,' she says. 'Yes.”
― Bridget Collins, The Betrayals

“He splashes his face, blinking and gasping, until the cut on his chin has stopped stinging. The water in the basin is pink. His face wavers in it, a ruddy ghost. He's glad to turn away from it; although as he leaves the room he imagines his reflection still there, staring up at the ceiling, waiting for him to come back.”
― Bridget Collins, The Betrayals

“How could she forget she’s a woman, and that he’d treat her like one?”
― Bridget Collins, The Betrayals

“...she’d like a change of scenery. To change the ideas, as the French would say. To get out of this place which has always been her home, but which feels more and more like a prison.”
― Bridget Collins, The Betrayals