Can You See Her? Quotes

“Revenge is not a dish best served cold. It is a dish best served not at all.”
― S.E. Lynes, Can You See Her?

“Anger gets trapped inside us, becomes hate. If we’re not careful, hate becomes a force often too hard to control and which solves nothing.”
― S.E. Lynes, Can You See Her?

“I was thinking that hate is turned on people who don’t deserve it, who aren’t responsible for the anger, who have nothing to do with the hate, not really, do you see?”
― S.E. Lynes, Can You See Her?

“I was thinking… I was thinking that no matter how much love I had to give, it wasn’t enough. It would never be enough.”
― S.E. Lynes, Can You See Her?

“I want to walk away with nothing but a suitcase and the shredded remnants of my dignity.”
― S.E. Lynes, Can You See Her?

“To commit murder, to attack someone, you have to really want to, don’t you? You have to be so full of anger, rage, hate that you get to a point of not caring.”
― S.E. Lynes, Can You See Her?

“Yes, this was where I’d got to. Status: doormat. Unable to admit to a mistake for fear of ridicule. Unable to ask for a kindness for fear of refusal.”
― S.E. Lynes, Can You See Her?

“And often it’s something relatively small that tips us over an edge we’ve been teetering on for some time.’ ‘Like Crackerjack.’ ‘Like Crackerjack.”
― S.E. Lynes, Can You See Her?

“All of this to say that the stories we tell each other and ourselves are how we process life. Mishaps, disasters. And in your case, tragedy.”
― S.E. Lynes, Can You See Her?

“Trouble with the no-smoking rule, you can smell the actual pub, can’t you?”
― S.E. Lynes, Can You See Her?

“That’s all any of us want, isn’t it? To be seen, to be listened to with compassion and attention while we unload our troubled hearts.”
― S.E. Lynes, Can You See Her?

“She makes me think she can tell me it’s going to be all right – that she has the authority to say this and make it so. And that makes me want to tell her everything, even though all is lost.”
― S.E. Lynes, Can You See Her?

“There’s a limit to how many sandwiches short of a picnic you can admit to being before you’re no longer welcome on the day out, if you know what I mean.”
― S.E. Lynes, Can You See Her?

“Katie says I’m a weirdo for thinking everyone needs at least one hot meal a day, and I suppose it is old-fashioned, but that’s me.”
― S.E. Lynes, Can You See Her?

“Angela who might be Andrea or Alison”
― S.E. Lynes, Can You See Her?