The Hike Quotes

“Few circumstances are more afflicting than a discovery of perfidy in those whom we have trusted. —Ann Radcliffe, The Romance of the Forest (1791)”
― Susi Holliday, The Hike

“She’d had enough of people walking all over her. Thinking they’d get away with it because she was kind. Well, maybe being kind was overrated. She’d been played for a fool by all the people she’d thought she was close to, and it had caused her to harden her shell.”
― Susi Holliday, The Hike

“Pigalle is also drawn to the fish tank. He often spends time just watching them. Swimming back and forth, around in circles. No clue where they’ve been just a minute before. He envies them their short memories, because sometimes memories can break you.”
― Susi Holliday, The Hike

“He stood up quickly, pulling the thin mattress off the cot bed. He swung it hard, and it flew across the room, crashing into the door. He grabbed hold of his hair, twisting it in his fists. And then he screamed, loud, long.”
― Susi Holliday, The Hike

“She would have known that their dad always drove too fast down that private road.”
― Susi Holliday, The Hike

“He looked away. ‘She deserved better.”
― Susi Holliday, The Hike

“to what’s happened.”
― Susi Holliday, The Hike

“He’d had to look away from her pleading eyes as he’d smashed her head with a rock before pushing her over the side.”
― Susi Holliday, The Hike

“There was a window. He hadn’t noticed it before, as it was boarded up.”
― Susi Holliday, The Hike