Paula Hawkins

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 gap.

I have never understood how people can blithely disregard the damage they do by following their hearts.

There’s something comforting about the sight of strangers safe at home.

I have lost control over everything, even the places in my head.

The holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mould yourself through the gaps.

Life is not a paragraph, and death is no parenthesis.

There’s nothing so painful, so corrosive, as suspicion.

When did you become so weak?” I don’t know. I don’t know where that strength went, I don’t remember losing it. I think that over time it got chipped away, bit by bit, by life, by the living of it.