Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train
"She's cuckoo, laying her egg in my nest."
18 Quotes
"Who's to say that once I run, I'll find that isn't enough? Who's to say I won't end up feeling exactly the way I do right now-not safe, but stifled? Maybe I'll want to run again, and again, and eventually I'll end up back on those old tracks, because there's nowhere left to go. Maybe. Maybe not. You have to take the risk, don't you"
Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train
"As for him "feeling dead", that's probably just a consequence of him being gone from your life for so long. In some sense he no longer feels real to you."
Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train
"Let's be honest: women are still only really valued for two things--their looks and their role as mothers. I'm not beautiful, and I can't have kids, so what does that make me? Worthless."
Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train
"I have lost control over everything, even the places in my head."
Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train
"I don't remember things. I black out and I can't remember where I've been or what I've done. Sometimes I wonder if I've done or said terrible things, and I can't remember. And if...if someone tells me something I've done, it doesn't even feel like me. it doesn't feel like it was me who was doing that thing. And it's so hard to feel responsible for something you don't remember. So I never feel bad enough. i feel bad, but the thing that i've done --it's removed from me. It's like it doesn't belong to me."
Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train
"I sit there on the floor with the picture in front of me and think about how things get broken all the time by accident, and how sometimes you just don't get round to getting them fixed."
Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train
"The holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mold yourself through the gaps."
Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train
"I want to drag knives over my skin, just so that I can feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough to do that."
Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train
"A tiding of magpies: One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl, four for a boy, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret never to be told"
Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train
"I'm well aware that there is no job more important than that of raising a child, but the problem is that it isn't valued."
Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train
"I wake abruptly, my breath jagged and heart racing, my mouth stale, and I know immediately that's it. I'm awake. The more I want to be oblivious, the less I can be. Life and light will not let me be."
Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train
"To have my hopes raised and dashed again, it's like cold steel twisting in my gut."
Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train
"I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough for that"
Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train
"Hollowness: that I understand. I'm starting to believe that there isn't anything you can do to fix it. That's what I've taken from the therapy sessions: the holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mold yourself through the gaps"
Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train
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