Invisible Girl Quotes

“Invisibility was my favorite state of existence.”
― Lisa Jewell, Invisible Girl

“amazing how boring you can get away with being when you’re pretty. No one seems to notice. When you’re pretty everyone just assumes you must have a great life. People are so short-sighted, sometimes. People are so stupid. I have a dark past and I have dark thoughts. I do dark things and I scare myself sometimes. I wake in the middle of the night and I’ve twisted myself”
― Lisa Jewell, Invisible Girl

“It’s amazing how boring you can get away with being when you’re pretty. No one seems to notice. When you’re pretty everyone just assumes you must have a great life. People are so short-sighted, sometimes. People are so stupid.”
― Lisa Jewell, Invisible Girl

“The love part is simple; it’s everything else that’s complicated.”
― Lisa Jewell, Invisible Girl

“The front door goes again, and Josh appears. Cate’s heart lifts a little. While Georgia always arrives with news and moods and announcements and atmospheres, her little brother arrives as though he’d never left. He doesn’t bring things in with him, his issues unfurl gently and in good time.”
― Lisa Jewell, Invisible Girl

“I had gone back to being the “other” Saffyre Maddox, the one who showed up in the classroom every morning clean and fresh, hair neatly tied back, some mascara, some lip gloss. It wasn’t so much that I actively wanted to look nice, it was more that if I didn’t look nice, people would worry, they’d ask me questions, the pastoral-care woman would pull me into her office and expect me to tell her what was wrong with me.”
― Lisa Jewell, Invisible Girl

“The world feels like a straitjacket, sucking all the air out of his chest cavity, squeezing his bones.”
― Lisa Jewell, Invisible Girl

“Her concern had made him realize that up until now he’d not had one person in his life to offer him proper, empathetic, sensible, caring advice about his life, his choices, not ever.”
― Lisa Jewell, Invisible Girl

“Despite Harrison being on remand for three of the sex attacks, he has alibis for all the others, and it looks like maybe there was more than one predator at large all along.”
― Lisa Jewell, Invisible Girl

“The next time we met up he’d arrived in Lycra running gear, a zip-up jacket, a black beanie hat. I didn’t know it was him at first because his face was covered by a balaclava. As he approached, he pulled it down and I saw his smiling face emerge. He said, “What do you think? Invisible enough?” I pointed at the balaclava and laughed and said, “Where’d you get that scary-assed shit from?” He shrugged. “Found it in my dad’s drawer.”
― Lisa Jewell, Invisible Girl

“But I saw, out of the corner of my eye, Saffyre, I saw an essay one of his patients had written. A rape fantasy?”
― Lisa Jewell, Invisible Girl

“In a strangely sickening quirk of fate, it turned out that Harrison John was the little boy who’d written the violent rape fantasies, the boy Roan had mentioned in passing only a few weeks before. The connectivity was unnerving.”
― Lisa Jewell, Invisible Girl

“Of course Roan was having an affair. Roan had probably always been having an affair. For all three decades of their lives together. A continuous succession of interleaving affairs, from Marie right through to Alicia. Of course, she’d thought. Of course.”
― Lisa Jewell, Invisible Girl

“Yeah. You and your friend were going to unmask yourselves. Or something.” “Ha. Yeah. That’s right. I think we were maybe a bit wasted.” “I thought maybe you were planning a school shooting.” “Er,” said Josh wryly, “no.”
― Lisa Jewell, Invisible Girl

“My superpower was invisibility. There in the playground at school, or in the sixth-form common room, all eyes were on me, but at night I did not exist, I was the Invisible Girl. Invisibility was my favorite state of existence.”
― Lisa Jewell, Invisible Girl

“He puts his hand into his back pocket and pulls out a piece of folded paper. He unfolds it and pushes it across the table to Cate. She reads the words written on it and her blood runs cold and dark.”
― Lisa Jewell, Invisible Girl

“The girl, in the hood. The name Clive. He feels an echo in the soles of his feet. An echo of his footsteps, following the girl in the hoodie, calling to her in the darkness, heading after her into his garden.”
― Lisa Jewell, Invisible Girl

“As she does so, something occurs to her: Molly’s card is not the same shape as the envelope. It is slightly too tall, not quite wide enough. The card did not come with this envelope.”
― Lisa Jewell, Invisible Girl

“Now it looked like I’d found the shady one in Roan’s family. Who was this young boy picking up his weed from? Why was he smoking it all alone on a building site? And how was he hanging out with a fox? What kind of Dr. Dolittle weirdness was that?”
― Lisa Jewell, Invisible Girl

“He turned the corner, and I saw him saunter toward Roan’s house, and it was only then that I clocked who it was: it was Roan’s boy. Old gangly legs.”
― Lisa Jewell, Invisible Girl

“Where would Cate Fours end up? I honestly really ached for her. I truly did. It’s horrible when you know something that someone else doesn’t know; it makes you feel somehow responsible for their predicament.”
― Lisa Jewell, Invisible Girl

“He says this nonchalantly, as though the police coming to talk to him about a missing girl was a day-to-day occurrence. Cate almost gets the feeling that if she hadn’t asked him about it, he wouldn’t have brought it up.”
― Lisa Jewell, Invisible Girl

“Roan ended the affair—though refused to acknowledge that it was an affair, said it was just “basic sex”—the moment Cate confronted him with her suspicions.”
― Lisa Jewell, Invisible Girl

“There is not a soul around. She hears the wind talking to her through the leaves of the trees that surround this strange enclave. They are telling her to go. Now. That she should not be here.”
― Lisa Jewell, Invisible Girl

“He is her husband. He hates her. She knows he does. And it’s her fault.”
― Lisa Jewell, Invisible Girl

“It’s amazing how boring you can get away with being when you’re pretty. No one seems to notice. When you’re pretty everyone just assumes you must have a great life. People are so short-sighted, sometimes. People are so stupid. I have a dark past, and I have dark thoughts. I do dark things, and I scare myself sometimes.”
― Lisa Jewell, Invisible Girl

“good”
― Lisa Jewell, Invisible Girl

“She has a ten-year-old son and a face like a sincere apology for something that really isn’t her fault.”
― Lisa Jewell, Invisible Girl

“me”
― Lisa Jewell, Invisible Girl

“This time next year the skinny wife would be living in some shit flat somewhere because it would be all she could afford, and his kids would have to shuttle back and forth between two shit flats and sit making awkward conversation with Alicia, and looking after their mum because her heart would be broken and she wouldn’t be the mum they knew anymore, she’d be a new mum, and their childhoods would be shattered and changed. And”
― Lisa Jewell, Invisible Girl