Don’t Look Away Quotes

“My head aches with unbearable ferocity”
― Rachel Abbott, Don't Look Away

“We’re old, lovey. It’s just a word; a fact, not an insult. We don’t need fancy euphemisms. We were all born before political correctness became a thing.”
― Rachel Abbott, Don't Look Away

“It must be hell to be dying of thirst when you’re surrounded by water, but even if he attempted to drink seawater, he would still have died from dehydration. The kidneys can’t cope with the salt, and he’d have ended up urinating more liquid than he was taking in.”
― Rachel Abbott, Don't Look Away

“We refer to it as the sex – the biological aspect of an individual. Gender refers to the social expression of a person’s identity, often self-defined.”
― Rachel Abbott, Don't Look Away

“he behaved as if he was on the pull.”
― Rachel Abbott, Don't Look Away

“Emotions would be running at fever pitch and decisions might be taken, promises made, that – when life returned to normal – suddenly seemed irrational. Gus would fall in love with Daisy, without a doubt. But Paula and her husband might decide to move to the other side of the world, or Daisy – when she was old enough – might refuse to see Gus. And it was a tightrope that would have to be trodden carefully, because one wobble and they would all fall off.”
― Rachel Abbott, Don't Look Away

“Gus had an uncanny ability to identify evil beneath a veneer of innocence, but wasn’t quite so good at seeing vulnerability below a carefully constructed façade of composure.”
― Rachel Abbott, Don't Look Away

“Okay, let’s have your thoughts – and don’t hold back. We have to get this right.”
― Rachel Abbott, Don't Look Away

“didn’t want anyone to know about him – not Dad, not Lola. He was mine, and mine alone.”
― Rachel Abbott, Don't Look Away

“I don’t need to think about where I’m going. I yearn for the sound of the ocean pounding against the rocks, the cries of the gulls, the wind whipping my hair around my face, every sense stirred. It will calm me and bring some perspective. At least, that’s what I’m hoping.”
― Rachel Abbott, Don't Look Away

“he was as wild and dangerous as the ocean.”
― Rachel Abbott, Don't Look Away

“From that moment onwards I don’t believe I was capable of refusing him anything.”
― Rachel Abbott, Don't Look Away

“Why is it off limits?’ I asked, scared I might be breaking the law if I went with him. ‘Because it’s a little slice of heaven, and if it was discovered by tourists it would quickly turn into Benidorm.”
― Rachel Abbott, Don't Look Away

“you will soon come to realise that for the vast majority of people happiness is an illusion. Life is about getting through each day as best you can, living with the decisions you’ve made – whether good or bad. Nothing more, nothing less.”
― Rachel Abbott, Don't Look Away

“What goes on in this house, in this family, is private.”
― Rachel Abbott, Don't Look Away

“You have to stop telling people to love you. Love isn’t something that you can demand as your right.”
― Rachel Abbott, Don't Look Away

“Town’s not so busy now the school holidays are over, and it’s less crowded now the emmets have left.’ ‘Emmets?’ ‘Holidaymakers. Means ants, I think. The ones that swarm everywhere. Anyhow, the posh lookalike mums with their swinging blonde hair and whiny kids have gone, and we’re left with the more sedate older visitors. Much better.”
― Rachel Abbott, Don't Look Away

“Got milk, tea, coffee, sugar – although you don’t look as if sugar ever passes your lips – biscuits, sliced bread, butter, marmalade”
― Rachel Abbott, Don't Look Away