The Pact Quotes

“Stay single,”
― Sharon J. Bolton, The Pact

“You know what, Tal, I don’t call twenty years short notice at all. I’d say they’ve had more than enough time. One o’clock. I’ll see you there. Say good night to Dan for me.”
― Sharon J. Bolton, The Pact

“As the years had gone by, he’d started to ask himself if this crippling guilt would have been less if he’d taken his share of the blame twenty years ago.”
― Sharon J. Bolton, The Pact

“They reached a wooden bench, dedicated to the memory of someone in whom they had no interest but took advantage of the generosity of his friends all the same, and sat.”
― Sharon J. Bolton, The Pact

“Don’t you remember the old accountants’ saying: “Turnover is vanity, profit is sanity and cash is reality”?”
― Sharon J. Bolton, The Pact

“Xav, with his brilliance and physical beauty, was gold, of course: rare, fascinating, with a hundred different uses, but ultimately rather soft and unreliable. People had lusted after gold since the dawn of time, but no one had ever built a house from it.”
― Sharon J. Bolton, The Pact

“Are you sure?’ he managed. ‘I mean, what would you gain? You know it happened, you paid the price. You can move on now, surely? Put it behind you. We’ll help you. Actually, there’s been something I’ve been meaning to—’ ‘But that’s the point, I can’t put it behind me until I understand,’ she said. ‘I need to know what made me do such a stupid thing. When I had my whole life ahead of me, and such great friends. We were going to conquer the world, weren’t we? Why would I throw that away?’ She was”
― Sharon J. Bolton, The Pact