Exit Quotes

“Often it felt almost as if he had died too, because all that was left now was a pale shadow of himself, hanging like limp lace at an airless window.”
― Belinda Bauer, Exit

“Mrs Pitt shouted up the stairs for her daughter with a voice like a foghorn, then smiled cheerfully at Calvin. "She'll be down in a mo," she said, and showed him in to the front room, which was a colourful sea of Lego bricks with a small child bobbing in it.”
― Belinda Bauer, Exit

“For a start, he now thought of the grassy bank as the shore, when before he’d only thought of it as the grassy bank.”
― Belinda Bauer, Exit

“It’s a hard thing . . .’ Skipper’s voice wavered. ‘To live long enough to know all the hurt you done.”
― Belinda Bauer, Exit

“Albert Cann’s coffin was laid alongside the ornate wooden font, which somehow felt either very wrong or very right – the cradle-to-grave circle of life summed up in a simple, sobering diorama.”
― Belinda Bauer, Exit

“No,’ shrugged Daz. ‘I’m just saying – you’d put a dog down, wouldn’t you?’ They thanked him and left – and drove back to the police station in silence.”
― Belinda Bauer, Exit

“whose slow death had sunk the fragile raft of faith”
― Belinda Bauer, Exit

“all while Mabel barked and wagged at the same time to show she was friendly, yet capable of extreme violence.”
― Belinda Bauer, Exit

“nearly twenty-seven. Which was pretty much the same as being nearly thirty. Which was only ten years from being forty, and then he might as well just admit defeat and slide downhill towards the grave.”
― Belinda Bauer, Exit

“... so thin and grey that every breath sounded like a resurrection.”
― Belinda Bauer, Exit

“...she had been the sun, and he and Jamie just two little planets in her orbit, held in place by her gravity, lit by her light and basking in her warmth.”
― Belinda Bauer, Exit

“I hope I break even – I could do with the money.”
― Belinda Bauer, Exit

“He'd had such big things to be upset by in life that it had become much easier to forgive the little ones.”
― Belinda Bauer, Exit

“Just another old person hidden by her age.”
― Belinda Bauer, Exit