The One to Blame Quotes

“Life is the last thing you can ever take from someone. No matter how evil a person, murder is an act that robs us of our humanity and from which there is no return”
― S.E. Lynes, The One to Blame

“but she has told herself that this is what marriage is, for most people: a slow peeling-away of layers, the management of inevitable disappointment at the truth beneath. We are all only human, after all.”
― S.E. Lynes, The One to Blame

“Maybe she withstood and withstood and withstood until one night she could withstand no more.”
― S.E. Lynes, The One to Blame

“Isla pretends to consult the map, panting. ‘After this, it’s downhill all the way to Shiel Bridge.”
― S.E. Lynes, The One to Blame

“I just need to believe I can find real love, not fireworks and fancy tricks that end in cruelty. I want kindness. I'm never going to settle for anything less than kindness”
― S.E. Lynes, The One to Blame

“I close my eyes. Funny how it's our eyes we close to somehow hear less, when in fact it concentrates the sense even further”
― S.E. Lynes, The One to Blame

“But loneliness is like shame, she thinks. If you hold your head high, no one can see it. No one can know it is there”
― S.E. Lynes, The One to Blame

“Friends with man like Dominic, he probably found himself in his shadow. For such a short man, Dominic's shadow was surprising long”
― S.E. Lynes, The One to Blame

“I close my eyes, but we cannot close our physical senses to what our mind conjures for us: what images, what sounds”
― S.E. Lynes, The One to Blame

“That's how it is with secrets: they dilute. Your own is the strongest possible concentration, someone else's already weaker, and so on until the secret is water running as freely through the village as from a burst main”
― S.E. Lynes, The One to Blame

“The fire, what came after the fire, the reality of my sister's life, her death - the truth has fallen in slow rain. Even now, I know I have yet to turn my face to its last acid drops”
― S.E. Lynes, The One to Blame

“He is only almost a man.”
― S.E. Lynes, The One to Blame