The Girls Who Disappeared Quotes

“It's hard to know what has become folklore and what is reality. But don't all myths stem from some semblance of fact?”
― Claire Douglas, The Girls Who Disappeared

“It's not like in books, Jenna. Not everything gets explained and tied up nicely in a neat little bow. This world is messy, complicated.”
― Claire Douglas, The Girls Who Disappeared

“The end of a marriage - because that is what it is, I can't delude myself any more - feels like a death.”
― Claire Douglas, The Girls Who Disappeared

“My mum used to say, when I was little and scared that a ghost was under my bed, it was the living who could hurt you, not the dead”
― Claire Douglas, The Girls Who Disappeared

“That's the problem with memory Especially after twenty years. How can you be sure of what is true and what your mind has made up?”
― Claire Douglas, The Girls Who Disappeared

“She's got used to living with the chronic pain. The accident had damaged her muscles and nerves but the emotional pain was harder to deal with”
― Claire Douglas , The Girls Who Disappeared

“Don’t trust anyone. That’s what the cards are warning you, Jenna. Everyone is lying.”
― Claire Douglas, The Girls Who Disappeared

“I don’t know how she can work with horses all day – they terrify me with their flaring nostrils and large teeth.”
― Claire Douglas, The Girls Who Disappeared

“It doesn’t escape her notice that the only person she trusts is a journalist she’s known for a few days. What does that say about her life and the people in it?”
― Claire Douglas, The Girls Who Disappeared

“perhaps late twenties, trots over to him.”
― Claire Douglas, The Girls Who Disappeared

“My mind feels fractured, like looking at my reflection in a broken mirror. I can see different parts but can't understand where they all fit”
― Claire Douglas, The Girls Who Disappeared

“Don't trust anyone. That's what the cards are warning you, Jenna. Everyone is lying”
― Claire Douglas, The Girls Who Disappeared

“She knows he won't apologize for earlier. He never does. Instead, he'll moon around her, like he's the victim, until she's forced to say sorry or make it up to him in some way even though she's the wronged party”
― Claire Douglas, The Girls Who Disappeared

“The truth wouldn't set her free. Far from it. The truth was a Pandora's box and she had to keep the lid firmly closed”
― Claire Douglas, The Girls Who Disappeared

“Fear pierces her heart. She hates it when Wesley gets mad. Not that he's ever hurt her. He'd never do that. He doesn't even shout at her, not really. It's more the resigned disappointment followed by the silent treatment that he stretches out like an elastic band, getting tauter and tauter until she can bear it no more”
― Claire Douglas, The Girls Who Disappeared

“Being with him is like slipping on her favourite fleecy dressing gown and she worries that if she takes it off, she'll be cold and naked and vulnerable”
― Claire Douglas, The Girls Who Disappeared

“Maybe it's been a gradual thing over the years, the gentle eroding of their love, like seawater over a pebble... She can't even pinpoint the exact moment it changed. But it seems the stronger she gets the weaker their relationship becomes”
― Claire Douglas, The Girls Who Disappeared

“Since the accident Olivia prefers the company of horses to people. Solid, dependable and comforting. They don't let you down, or judge you, or get angry with you, or manipulative. They don't answer back or hurl cruel words at you or trick you into doing something you aren't comfortable with. You know where you are with them.”
― Claire Douglas, The Girls Who Disappeared

“November 1998 - They were singing. They were drunk. They were happy. That was what Olivia recalled most, afterwards. How happy her friends had been”
― Claire Douglas, The Girls Who Disappeared