The Other Passenger Quotes

“Hurtling towards fifty as we were, we found it hard to judge younger adults’ ages. They all looked like sixth formers to us.”
― Louise Candlish, The Other Passenger

“Sunday dawned bright and cheerful, oblivious to the fatal wounds of its predecessor,”
― Louise Candlish, Those People

“Even if he’s been up late partying, he always smells great, like an artisan loaf baked with walnuts and figs (‘Kit smells so millennial,’ Clare said once, which was almost certainly a criticism of me and my Gen X smell of, I don’t know, stale dog biscuits).”
― Louise Candlish, The Other Passenger

“Wall them off?’ Tess said. ‘Like they’re Mexico or West Berlin? That’s a bit unfair on Ant and Em.’ Still, it wasn’t the craziest idea she’d heard to date.”
― Louise Candlish, Those People

“It was in her hand, as everyone’s was these days, as if phones were dialysis machines that could not be out of reach without life-threatening consequences.”
― Louise Candlish, Those People

“As she began to detail individual examples of hatefulness, as if it were hers that had been the career-ending, life-altering trauma, it was hard to tell whether her original aim had been to empathize or simply to talk about herself.”
― Louise Candlish, The Other Passenger

“Clare had as good as admitted she would trade her fortune for a second stab at youth; unlike love, unlike happiness, you couldn’t buy it.”
― Louise Candlish, The Other Passenger

“But you know what they say are the two most heartbreaking words in the English language? What if. Or, if they don’t, they really should.”
― Louise Candlish, The Other Passenger

“2020 has a sci-fi ring to it, I feel, like it might be the year of alien landings or the one when the gamma rays get us.”
― Louise Candlish, The Other Passenger

“that for murder convictions in the UK, there is a mandatory minimum sentence of fifteen years.”
― Louise Candlish, The Other Passenger