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Paula Hawkins quotes: I was kind of broke . 'The Girl on the Train' was a last roll of the dice for me as a fiction writer. I was kind of broke . 'The Girl on the Train' was a last roll of the dice for me as a fiction writer.
Paula Hawkins quotes: It's not even rejection, it's dismissal. It's not even rejection, it's dismissal.
Paula Hawkins quotes: I was right, I knew I was, but it won't do me any good to say it. I enjoy my victory silently; I take pleasure in it almost as much I was right, I knew I was, but it won't do me any good to say it. I enjoy my victory silently; I take pleasure in it almost as much as in his touch.
Paula Hawkins quotes: You know you can't believe half the stuff they print in the newspapers. You know you can't believe half the stuff they print in the newspapers.
Paula Hawkins quotes: I feel like myself - the myself I used to be. I feel like myself - the myself I used to be.
Paula Hawkins quotes: I'm starting to see what he must have seen in her. What he must have loved. I'm starting to see what he must have seen in her. What he must have loved.
Paula Hawkins quotes: On the way back down the road, he passes me in his car, our eyes meet for just a second and he smiles at me. On the way back down the road, he passes me in his car, our eyes meet for just a second and he smiles at me.
Paula Hawkins quotes: Life and light will not let me be. Life and light will not let me be.
Paula Hawkins quotes: let's be honest: women are still only really valued for two things - their looks and their role as mothers. let's be honest: women are still only really valued for two things - their looks and their role as mothers.
Paula Hawkins quotes: When I write, I imagine places more than people. When I write, I imagine places more than people.
Paula Hawkins quotes: dig my fingernails into my palms. dig my fingernails into my palms.
Paula Hawkins quotes: Parents don't care about anything but their children. They are the centre of the universe; they are all that really counts. Parents don't care about anything but their children. They are the centre of the universe; they are all that really counts.
Paula Hawkins quotes: I watch him come, I watch him, and I don't move until he's almost upon me, and then I swing. I jam the vicious twist of the corkscrew into his I watch him come, I watch him, and I don't move until he's almost upon me, and then I swing. I jam the vicious twist of the corkscrew into his neck.
Paula Hawkins quotes: She made a mistake. It happens. We are none of us perfect. She made a mistake. It happens. We are none of us perfect.
Paula Hawkins quotes: I have to find a way of making myself happy, I have to stop looking for happiness elsewhere. It's true, I have to find a way of making myself happy, I have to stop looking for happiness elsewhere. It's true,
Paula Hawkins quotes: I need to find something that I must do, something undeniable. I need to find something that I must do, something undeniable.
Paula Hawkins quotes: Beware a calm surface - you never know what lies beneath. Beware a calm surface - you never know what lies beneath.
Paula Hawkins quotes: Some battles aren't worth fighting Some battles aren't worth fighting
Paula Hawkins quotes: The memory doesn't fit with the reality, because I don't remember anger, raging fury. I remember fear. The memory doesn't fit with the reality, because I don't remember anger, raging fury. I remember fear.
Paula Hawkins quotes: She's cuckoo, laying her egg in my nest. She's cuckoo, laying her egg in my nest.
Paula Hawkins quotes: I can't do this, I can't just be a wife. I can't do this, I can't just be a wife.
Paula Hawkins quotes: the job itself is utterly beneath me, but then I seem to have become beneath me over the past year or two. I need to reset the scale. the job itself is utterly beneath me, but then I seem to have become beneath me over the past year or two. I need to reset the scale.
Paula Hawkins quotes: It comes from shared experience, from knowing how it feels to be broken. Hollowness: that I understand. It comes from shared experience, from knowing how it feels to be broken. Hollowness: that I understand.
Paula Hawkins quotes: I felt dizzy, as though I were having an out-of-body experience, as though I were looking out at myself I felt dizzy, as though I were having an out-of-body experience, as though I were looking out at myself
Paula Hawkins quotes: Then I wait. Times and dates, mostly. Not dates. Days. Monday Then I wait. Times and dates, mostly. Not dates. Days. Monday
Paula Hawkins quotes: He closed his eyes so that he didn't have to watch me choke. He closed his eyes so that he didn't have to watch me choke.
Paula Hawkins quotes: I miss being a mistress. I miss being a mistress.
Paula Hawkins quotes: She has no past, no future. She exists purely in the moment. Drunk She has no past, no future. She exists purely in the moment. Drunk
Paula Hawkins quotes: in no hurry to get back to Ashbury in the evening either. Not just because it's Ashbury, although the place itself is bad in no hurry to get back to Ashbury in the evening either. Not just because it's Ashbury, although the place itself is bad
Paula Hawkins quotes: It broke me and I broke us. It broke me and I broke us.
Paula Hawkins quotes: There's nothing so painful, so corrosive, as suspicion. There's nothing so painful, so corrosive, as suspicion.
Paula Hawkins quotes: I find writing the darker side, writing tragedy, a lot easier than writing happiness. Happiness is just less psychologically compelling, isn't it? I find writing the darker side, writing tragedy, a lot easier than writing happiness. Happiness is just less psychologically compelling, isn't it?
Paula Hawkins quotes: That's what he always used to say to me. Don't expect me to be sane, Anna. Not with you. That's what he always used to say to me. Don't expect me to be sane, Anna. Not with you.
Paula Hawkins quotes: Every time I think I'm about to seize the moment, it drifts back into the shadows, just beyond my reach. Every time I think I'm about to seize the moment, it drifts back into the shadows, just beyond my reach.
Paula Hawkins quotes: I'm playing at real life instead of actually living it. I'm playing at real life instead of actually living it.
Paula Hawkins quotes: It must take the most incredible self-control, that stillness, that passivity; it must be exhausting. It must take the most incredible self-control, that stillness, that passivity; it must be exhausting.
Paula Hawkins quotes: I'm not here for you, I couldn't be less interested I'm not here for you, I couldn't be less interested
Paula Hawkins quotes: house feels like it's shaking, too, the house feels like it's shaking, too, the
Paula Hawkins quotes: Who was it said that following your heart is a good thing? It is pure egotism, a selfishness to conquer all. Who was it said that following your heart is a good thing? It is pure egotism, a selfishness to conquer all.
Paula Hawkins quotes: This is what marriage is - safe, warm, comfortable. Tom This is what marriage is - safe, warm, comfortable. Tom
Paula Hawkins quotes: ...the past shooting out at me like sparrows for the hedgerow, startling and inescapable. ...the past shooting out at me like sparrows for the hedgerow, startling and inescapable.
Paula Hawkins quotes: Anything was possible. When you hear hooves you look for horses, but you can't discount zebras. Anything was possible. When you hear hooves you look for horses, but you can't discount zebras.
Paula Hawkins quotes: It's nice being out early, before the school run, before the commute gets going; the streets are empty and clean, the day full of possibility It's nice being out early, before the school run, before the commute gets going; the streets are empty and clean, the day full of possibility
Paula Hawkins quotes: I'm almost at the station, just passing the Crown, when I feel a hand on my arm and I wheel around, slipping off the pavement and into the road. I'm almost at the station, just passing the Crown, when I feel a hand on my arm and I wheel around, slipping off the pavement and into the road.
Paula Hawkins quotes: So who do I want to be tomorrow? So who do I want to be tomorrow?
Paula Hawkins quotes: I feel about an incident is proportionate not just to the gravity of the situation, but also to the number of people who have witnessed it. I feel about an incident is proportionate not just to the gravity of the situation, but also to the number of people who have witnessed it.
Paula Hawkins quotes: 'The Woman on the Train' just didn't sound as good. I'll take care next time not to have 'girl' in the title. 'The Woman on the Train' just didn't sound as good. I'll take care next time not to have 'girl' in the title.
Paula Hawkins quotes: That, at least, is true. He hasn't replied. I didn't expect him to. I am cut off from him, shut out. The things That, at least, is true. He hasn't replied. I didn't expect him to. I am cut off from him, shut out. The things
Paula Hawkins quotes: To have my hopes raised and dashed again, it's like cold steel twisting in my gut. To have my hopes raised and dashed again, it's like cold steel twisting in my gut.
Paula Hawkins quotes: Scott the other night: the dream was just my brain picking all that apart. Scott the other night: the dream was just my brain picking all that apart.
Paula Hawkins quotes: ...that's the point, you can say anything to strangers. But that isn't completely true. You can't just say 'anything'. ...that's the point, you can say anything to strangers. But that isn't completely true. You can't just say 'anything'.
Paula Hawkins quotes: I am single and without children. I'm actually one of those people who's just never had a great desire to have kids. I am single and without children. I'm actually one of those people who's just never had a great desire to have kids.
Paula Hawkins quotes: Now look what you made me do. Now look what you made me do.
Paula Hawkins quotes: They're what I lost, they're everything I want to be. They're what I lost, they're everything I want to be.
Paula Hawkins quotes: I snap the laptop shut and jump to my feet, knocking my I snap the laptop shut and jump to my feet, knocking my
Paula Hawkins quotes: When I wrote 'The Girl on the Train,' nobody knew who I was, and that's quite a comfortable position to be writing in. When I wrote 'The Girl on the Train,' nobody knew who I was, and that's quite a comfortable position to be writing in.
Paula Hawkins quotes: It isn't normal to invade someone's privacy to that degree. It's what is often seen as a form of emotional abuse. It isn't normal to invade someone's privacy to that degree. It's what is often seen as a form of emotional abuse.
Paula Hawkins quotes: Nobody warned me it would break us. But it did. Or rather, it broke me, and then I broke us. The Nobody warned me it would break us. But it did. Or rather, it broke me, and then I broke us. The
Paula Hawkins quotes: I'm not naturally an extrovert. I'm a writer - I sit in a room by myself making things up. That is where I'm happiest. I'm not naturally an extrovert. I'm a writer - I sit in a room by myself making things up. That is where I'm happiest.
Paula Hawkins quotes: I adore Kate Atkinson, her literary as well as her crime output. I adore Kate Atkinson, her literary as well as her crime output.
Paula Hawkins quotes: green and cold and waiting for fingers of sunshine to creep up from the tracks and make them all come alive. green and cold and waiting for fingers of sunshine to creep up from the tracks and make them all come alive.
Paula Hawkins quotes: I'm not romantic, and I don't like Christmas. I'm not romantic, and I don't like Christmas.
Paula Hawkins quotes: If you want someone badly enough, you'll do anything to have them. If you want someone badly enough, you'll do anything to have them.
Paula Hawkins quotes: I quit! I feel so much better, as if anything is possible. I'm free! I quit! I feel so much better, as if anything is possible. I'm free!
Paula Hawkins quotes: It's not a photo I've seen before. It's not a photo I've seen before.
Paula Hawkins quotes: The holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mould yourself through the gaps. The holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mould yourself through the gaps.
Paula Hawkins quotes: People think it's terribly sad to spend Christmas alone, but it's no sadder, really, than spending any other day alone, is it? People think it's terribly sad to spend Christmas alone, but it's no sadder, really, than spending any other day alone, is it?
Paula Hawkins quotes: I am no longer just a girl on the train, going back and forth without point or purpose. I am no longer just a girl on the train, going back and forth without point or purpose.
Paula Hawkins quotes: There can be no greater agony, nothing can be more painful than the not knowing, which will never end. There can be no greater agony, nothing can be more painful than the not knowing, which will never end.
Paula Hawkins quotes: The last thing I need is rest. The last thing I need is rest.
Paula Hawkins quotes: At parties, he often holds her hand, even though they've been together years. They respect each other, they don't put each other down. At parties, he often holds her hand, even though they've been together years. They respect each other, they don't put each other down.
Paula Hawkins quotes: He loves me so much, it makes me ache. I don't know how he does it. I would drive me mad. He loves me so much, it makes me ache. I don't know how he does it. I would drive me mad.
Paula Hawkins quotes: It's impossible to resist the kindness of strangers. It's impossible to resist the kindness of strangers.
Paula Hawkins quotes: The police think I'm a rubbernecker. They think I'm a stalker, a nut-case, mentally unstable. The police think I'm a rubbernecker. They think I'm a stalker, a nut-case, mentally unstable.
Paula Hawkins quotes: There are familiar faces on these trains, people I see every week, going to and fro. I recognize them and they probably recognize me. There are familiar faces on these trains, people I see every week, going to and fro. I recognize them and they probably recognize me.
Paula Hawkins quotes: And I've just got to let myself feel the pain, because if I don't, if I keep numbing it, it'll never really go away. And I've just got to let myself feel the pain, because if I don't, if I keep numbing it, it'll never really go away.
Paula Hawkins quotes: No matter how much I love him, it won't be enough. No matter how much I love him, it won't be enough.
Paula Hawkins quotes: 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. 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 quotes: I'd never realized, not until the last year or two of my life, how shaming it is to be pitied. I'd never realized, not until the last year or two of my life, how shaming it is to be pitied.
Paula Hawkins quotes: Blood starts to ooze from the wound. The girls on the other side of the carriage are watching me, their faces blank. Blood starts to ooze from the wound. The girls on the other side of the carriage are watching me, their faces blank.
Paula Hawkins quotes: Beckford is not a suicide spot. Beckford is a place to get rid of troublesome women. Beckford is not a suicide spot. Beckford is a place to get rid of troublesome women.
Paula Hawkins quotes: I just listen. Sitting here in the morning, eyes closed I just listen. Sitting here in the morning, eyes closed
Paula Hawkins quotes: One more day of drinking, perhaps, and then I'll get myself straight tomorrow. One more day of drinking, perhaps, and then I'll get myself straight tomorrow.
Paula Hawkins quotes: I've been the fool. If he does it with you, he'll do it to you. I've been the fool. If he does it with you, he'll do it to you.
Paula Hawkins quotes: Once I've made my mind up, I'm a force to be reckoned with. Once I've made my mind up, I'm a force to be reckoned with.
Paula Hawkins quotes: I just don't know whether he's the condemned man or the executioner. I just don't know whether he's the condemned man or the executioner.
Paula Hawkins quotes: I didn't even get upset. I was just astounded. And when I brought it up with Tom - calmly, matter-of-factly - he was just as baffled as I was. I didn't even get upset. I was just astounded. And when I brought it up with Tom - calmly, matter-of-factly - he was just as baffled as I was.
Paula Hawkins quotes: Surely he would call me, wouldn't she? She would know how panicked...how desperate I would be. She's not vindictive like that, is she? Surely he would call me, wouldn't she? She would know how panicked...how desperate I would be. She's not vindictive like that, is she?
Paula Hawkins quotes: Tom said about Scott and Megan came from Anna, and no one knows better than I do that she can't be trusted. Tom said about Scott and Megan came from Anna, and no one knows better than I do that she can't be trusted.
Paula Hawkins quotes: He loves me so much it makes me ache. He loves me so much it makes me ache.
Paula Hawkins quotes: Tom's whole life was constructed on lies - falsehoods and half-truths told to make him look better, stronger, more interesting than he was. Tom's whole life was constructed on lies - falsehoods and half-truths told to make him look better, stronger, more interesting than he was.
Paula Hawkins quotes: He's a master at it, making me feel as though everything is my fault, making me feel worthless. He's a master at it, making me feel as though everything is my fault, making me feel worthless.
Paula Hawkins quotes: know what it is to love someone and to say the most terrible things to them, in anger or anguish. know what it is to love someone and to say the most terrible things to them, in anger or anguish.
Paula Hawkins quotes: she finds it funny or whether she's trying to appease him. she finds it funny or whether she's trying to appease him.
Paula Hawkins quotes: When I'm writing, I don't read much crime at all - you don't want to get distracted by other people's plots. When I'm writing, I don't read much crime at all - you don't want to get distracted by other people's plots.
Paula Hawkins quotes: Sometimes, I don't want to go anywhere, I think I'll be happy if I never have to set foot outside the house again. Sometimes, I don't want to go anywhere, I think I'll be happy if I never have to set foot outside the house again.
Paula Hawkins quotes: That's my fault, of course, because I behaved stupidly, like a child, because I didn't like feeling rejected. I need to learn to lose a little better. That's my fault, of course, because I behaved stupidly, like a child, because I didn't like feeling rejected. I need to learn to lose a little better.
Paula Hawkins quotes: Maidstone," he says, "in Kent. But I moved Maidstone," he says, "in Kent. But I moved
Paula Hawkins quotes: I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough for that 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 quotes: I have never understood how people can blithely disregard the damage they do by following their hearts. I have never understood how people can blithely disregard the damage they do by following their hearts.

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