Paula Hawkins Quotes
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Paula Hawkins Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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 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.
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.
let's be honest: women are still only really valued for two things - their looks and their role as mothers.
Parents don't care about anything but their children. They are the centre of the universe; they are all that really counts.
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.
I have to find a way of making myself happy, I have to stop looking for happiness elsewhere. It's true,
The memory doesn't fit with the reality, because I don't remember anger, raging fury. I remember fear.
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.
It comes from shared experience, from knowing how it feels to be broken. Hollowness: that I understand.
I felt dizzy, as though I were having an out-of-body experience, as though I were looking out at myself
in no hurry to get back to Ashbury in the evening either. Not just because it's Ashbury, although the place itself is bad
I find writing the darker side, writing tragedy, a lot easier than writing happiness. Happiness is just less psychologically compelling, isn't it?
Every time I think I'm about to seize the moment, it drifts back into the shadows, just beyond my reach.
It must take the most incredible self-control, that stillness, that passivity; it must be exhausting.
Who was it said that following your heart is a good thing? It is pure egotism, a selfishness to conquer all.
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
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 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.
'The Woman on the Train' just didn't sound as good. I'll take care next time not to have 'girl' in the title.
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's the point, you can say anything to strangers. But that isn't completely true. You can't just say 'anything'.
I am single and without children. I'm actually one of those people who's just never had a great desire to have kids.
When I wrote 'The Girl on the Train,' nobody knew who I was, and that's quite a comfortable position to be writing in.
It isn't normal to invade someone's privacy to that degree. It's what is often seen as a form of emotional abuse.
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.
green and cold and waiting for fingers of sunshine to creep up from the tracks and make them all come alive.
The holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mould yourself through the gaps.
People think it's terribly sad to spend Christmas alone, but it's no sadder, really, than spending any other day alone, is it?
There can be no greater agony, nothing can be more painful than the not knowing, which will never end.
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.
There are familiar faces on these trains, people I see every week, going to and fro. I recognize them and they probably recognize me.
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.
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.
Blood starts to ooze from the wound. The girls on the other side of the carriage are watching me, their faces blank.
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.
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?
Tom said about Scott and Megan came from Anna, and no one knows better than I do that she can't be trusted.
Tom's whole life was constructed on lies - falsehoods and half-truths told to make him look better, stronger, more interesting than he was.
When I'm writing, I don't read much crime at all - you don't want to get distracted by other people's plots.
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.
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.