Let Me In Quotes

“the job that was slowly grinding her into dust,”
― Claire McGowan, Let Me In

“People are rarely one thing or the other.”
― Claire McGowan, Let Me In

“Granny always said that actions done with a clouded heart turn out badly. My hands had made Morag good medicine, but my heart had only wished her ill.”
― Claire McGowan, Let Me In

“I had never known whether it was more painful to be near him and not allowed to have him, or to not see him at all.”
― Claire McGowan, Let Me In

“Did they work, people always want to know. The potions? Of course they did. Medicines are just chemical compounds, and that was what Granny made too, though she didn’t know the technical names for things. Most of her recipes have a basis in evidence, and if a broken heart cannot be cured by a potion, perhaps it can by listening, by good advice, and most of all by hope. That was what she offered, and I tried to do the same.”
― Claire McGowan, Let Me In

“God, the standing-desk lobby. Who wants to write on their feet? I’d have chosen a different job if sitting down all day wasn’t my ideal state.”
― Claire McGowan, Let Me In

“Mick was pretty much the only father I’d ever known, but I couldn’t let him be one.”
― Claire McGowan, Let Me In

“This house, haunted as it was, was my home now.”
― Claire McGowan, Let Me In

“At thirty-four, almost three years younger than me, he sometimes described himself as middle-aged, though he seemed boyish to me still. A full head of hair, in need of a cut, lockdown beard also needing a trim, glasses smeared with grease as they always were. But how I loved him. It made my heart hurt sometimes still, after so many years. His fraying jeans, the unfashionable cut of them, his Sonic Youth T-shirt, stained with Dorito crumbs. All of it precious to me.”
― Claire McGowan, Let Me In

“Driving west in this way, it felt like turning back towards the past, to things I’d done my best to run from.”
― Claire McGowan, Let Me In

“All my vigilance and planning had prevented nothing. So I had to let things go. I had to live a little.”
― Claire McGowan, Let Me In

“I’d been in medicine since I was twenty-five, almost thirteen years now, and I didn’t know who I would be without it.”
― Claire McGowan, Let Me In

“People think you can hide in the country, where it’s isolated, but they are very wrong. In the country, there are always eyes on you.”
― Claire McGowan, Let Me In

“If I’d known that would be the last normal day, I might have paid more attention to the small details of it, the life I hadn’t realised I loved until I lost it.”
― Claire McGowan, Let Me In

“From neglect, no doubt, from pain, from sorrow. It can kill you faster than cancer.”
― Claire McGowan, Let Me In

“PTJS – post-traumatic job stress.”
― Claire McGowan, Let Me In

“There are some advantages to being thought of as a dysfunctional idiot, which, to be fair, I often am.”
― Claire McGowan, Let Me In