Confidence Quotes

“There is a simple arithmetic to interpersonal violence: the person willing to absorb the most physical injury usually wins.”
― Denise Mina, Confidence

“If you’ve ever lost your kids in the supermarket you know that shaking, fingers tingling, heart racing? Then you find them and it’s over… but this is never over. It just gets worse and worse. She’s alive, out there somewhere, and if only I can find her. I can fix this. I still feel I can fix it.”
― Denise Mina, Confidence

“The news winded me. My father killed himself, I’ve been on the ragged brink myself once or twice, I know how easy it would be to stand on the edge and just… tip. And I know all the wonderful things that happened because I didn’t tip: Hamish and my girls, my friend Fin and my kind, mad bitchy friend Estelle. I saw all the wonders and ice creams and good sleeps and funny films Lisa Lee would never see flash before me, all the sex and adventures and strong tea she’d never get to have. It made me think of my girls in ten years’ time, of Jess staggering out of a hotel at five in the morning with blood running down her legs, of Lizzie crying so hard on a night bus that her make-up ran and everyone moved away from her and the driver stopped and called the police to come and help her. Fin held my hand and asked if I was OK. I said I was, though I wasn’t really.”
― Denise Mina, Confidence