She Started It Quotes

“If anyone should be afraid up here, it’s me,” she says. “After all, I know what you’re all capable of.”
― Sian Gilbert, She Started It

“In reality, we all stick together because we know no one else would ever understand what we did in the past. And the trouble is, we’ve all become so convinced that what we did was alright that we’ve accepted an invitation from the very woman we did it to.”
― Sian Gilbert, She Started It

“It all went wrong,” she says. I’m about to speak, but the bride isn’t finished. She draws herself into a hunch, grabbing both arms, wrapping herself in an embrace despite the scorching weather. Her next words leave me cold. “She started it.”
― Sian Gilbert, She Started It

“We know things about each other now. Annabel’s husband’s cheating not only with random strangers but with Chloe. Tanya’s drug problems. Chloe and I have lost our jobs.”
― Sian Gilbert, She Started It

“Perhaps it’s still selfish of me, in a way, to see this as a chance to seek forgiveness.”
― Sian Gilbert, She Started It

“The problem with you, Annabel, is you’ve always felt like the past doesn’t matter because it’s over. You don’t think about how actions always have consequences. You’re too focused on yourself and not focused enough on other people.”
― Sian Gilbert, She Started It

“Those bitches might have started it, but I sure as hell finished it.”
― Sian Gilbert, She Started It

“If Poppy’s still harbouring any grudges she wouldn’t have invited us. I can just relax now. This is going to be fantastic.”
― Sian Gilbert, She Started It

“There’s something so fascinating about the way several psychological disorders can be seen through scans and tests, physical proof of the genuine impact they can have.”
― Sian Gilbert, She Started It

“And I’m not planning on that being me. I’ll kill these bitches myself before I end up dead.”
― Sian Gilbert, She Started It

“Amazing, the life-altering secrets we kept from one another. Annabel the little thief. My affair with her husband. Esther’s abuse at the hands of her boyfriend. Tanya’s drug addiction. And we’re supposed to be friends.”
― Sian Gilbert, She Started It

“Esther wraps an arm around my waist as we survey the scene, putting her mouth to my ear. “Remember, you owe me, Annabel. Don’t go getting any stupid ideas.”
― Sian Gilbert, She Started It

“Why do I always like to pick at people’s insecurities? I know I’m doing it, in fact that’s almost why I do it in the first place. There’s something about watching someone’s face fall and know you’re the one that caused it, that you’re in the stronger position.”
― Sian Gilbert, She Started It

“I picked up what was left and crushed it into the desk, watching the insides crumble and fall apart against it. Another stain. Another mark that would always be there to remind me of what happened.”
― Sian Gilbert, She Started It

“We’re at the whim of whatever this bride wants. And maybe we deserve it.”
― Sian Gilbert, She Started It

“One thing’s for sure: not everyone is going to be leaving this island alive.”
― Sian Gilbert, She Started It

“Chloe Devine (real name Chloe Smith, a hopelessly ordinary surname she never could have done well with, she tells us) is an Instagram sensation: just fifty thousand followers away from one million.”
― Sian Gilbert, She Started It

“The last one to leave a party these days is Tanya Evesham, but that’s because she’s the one who organises them. She’s an events planner, from arranging celebrity features to high-class birthday parties.”
― Sian Gilbert, She Started It

“Esther Driscoll is an investment banker at a top firm and had to beg, borrow, and steal to get the time off. She’s much more serious than the rest of us.”
― Sian Gilbert, She Started It