Stay Awake Quotes

“There’s no such thing as being an observer. Doing nothing is doing something. Being passive has consequences.”
― Megan Goldin, Stay Awake

“Everyone has roles to play. Sometimes we don’t know it until it’s too late. You were given a choice, Liv. Every choice has a consequence.”
― Megan Goldin, Stay Awake

“We treat her as what she is. A potential witness. A possible suspect. But mostly a person going through a crisis. She doesn’t have a memory anymore, Jack,” said Halliday. “She must be terrified. We shouldn’t amplify the terror by treating her like a criminal when the evidence is ambiguous, and now apparently contradictory.”
― Megan Goldin, Stay Awake

“Garbage is a window to a person’s soul. A bit like their internet browsing history, but a whole lot smellier,”
― Megan Goldin, Stay Awake

“Killing her monster, as it were, may be her way to assert control. To break the cycle and get her memory back.”
― Megan Goldin, Stay Awake

“In 1926, after she discovered her husband was having an affair, Christie disappeared. The police dredged the local lake, believing she might have drowned. Thousands of volunteers searched for her in the countryside. Meanwhile, a woman claiming to be a grieving mother from Cape Town checked in at a health spa under a name very similar to the name of the mistress of Agatha Christie’s unfaithful husband. Eventually, one of the guests recognized her as the famous crime writer and alerted the authorities. Christie regained her memory, but she never remembered anything that happened to her during her time at the health spa.”
― Megan Goldin, Stay Awake

“forget things when I fall asleep.”
― Megan Goldin, Stay Awake

“Edward Cole. He’s an executive at a magazine. Age thirty-nine.”
― Megan Goldin, Stay Awake

“Lack of sleep does horrible things to a person’s mind,” said the social worker. “It can make some people psychotic.”
― Megan Goldin, Stay Awake

“Well, if the person who tried to kill her two years ago finds her before we do, we’re terribly worried that she’d have no idea this individual was a threat to her.”
― Megan Goldin, Stay Awake

“Liv Reese was almost murdered two years ago. I gather that’s why she moved to London. For her own safety. Her assailant was never caught. By all accounts, she was doing well, establishing a life for herself in Britain, until a few weeks ago, when she apparently woke in her London flat suffering a memory blackout. She didn’t remember a single thing that had transpired going back more than two years to the day when she was almost killed.”
― Megan Goldin, Stay Awake

“According to her doctors, every time she goes to sleep, she wakes up with no memory of anything that has happened in her life, going back to when she was still living in New York two years ago.”
― Megan Goldin, Stay Awake

“If Liv Reese didn’t do it, then I feel damn sorry for her.” “Why?” “Because that would mean she’s the only witness to one of the most cold-blooded murders that I’ve ever investigated.”
― Megan Goldin, Stay Awake

“Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.”
― Megan Goldin, Stay Awake

“A cleaner in a blue coverall stops his cleaning cart to empty a trash bag and replace it. He works quickly with a practiced air, like he’s been doing this all his life.”
― Megan Goldin, Stay Awake

“least, that’s what you told me the other night.” “What could I possibly do in my sleep?” I ask. Then I remember”
― Megan Goldin, Stay Awake