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81 " room. She stood for a while in the middle, imagining herself not in it anymore, imagining herself instead in her sister’s "
― Lisa Jewell , The House We Grew Up In
82 " It's very strange, looking back, how accepting children can be of the oddest scenarios. "
― Lisa Jewell , The Family Upstairs (The Family Upstairs, #1)
83 " Her daughter is dead and her mother is dead and her husband lives with a woman who is nicer than her in a hundred different ways. But she is OK. "
― Lisa Jewell , Then She Was Gone
84 " Her mother existed entirely in the moment. And she made every moment sparkle. "
85 " amazing how boring you can get away with being when you’re pretty. No one seems to notice. When you’re pretty everyone just assumes you must have a great life. People are so short-sighted, sometimes. People are so stupid. I have a dark past and I have dark thoughts. I do dark things and I scare myself sometimes. I wake in the middle of the night and I’ve twisted myself "
― Lisa Jewell , Invisible Girl
86 " But until you’ve experienced the incredible mix of emotions that a sibling brings to your life it’s really very hard to imagine. The love and the hate, the fun and the fights, the rivalry and the kinship. No one else knows your world like a sibling does. They’re there, every crap summer holiday, every day off school, every time your parents argue, every boring Christmas Day, every birthday party, they’re there. And they are a part of you. "
― Lisa Jewell , Watching You
87 " Freddie couldn’t help himself sometimes. His dad was just so fucking perfect. Or at least that was the overriding narrative. Amazing Tom Fitzwilliam. Isn’t he handsome? Isn’t he clever? Isn’t he charming? Isn’t he tall? Hasn’t he got an enormously huge dick? Well, no one had ever actually said that, but he did. Freddie had seen it. "
88 " May was like the Friday night of summer: "
89 " I’m talking about kids, Mrs. H. Terrible, dreadful, blasted awful kids. They've all got a darkness inside them. They've all got the capacity for evil. Give them free range over a piece of territory, like that out there, and you’ve got Lord of the Flies. You cannot afford to take your eye off the ball for a second. Not for even a second.... "
― Lisa Jewell , The Girls in the Garden
90 " But when it is just me. Alone. With myself—there is no sunshine. "
― Lisa Jewell , I Found You
91 " People are easier to deal with if they underestimate you. "
― Lisa Jewell , The Night She Disappeared
92 " That's the whole bloody trouble with the world. Too weak to love properly. Too weak to be wrong. "
93 " There was no irony in her tone and Adele was struck by how often women undervalued their own efforts whilst being endlessly impressed by those of their peers. "
94 " But maybe I’ll end up doing something else unconventional. Who knows. And I really hope that if I do, and as long as I’m not hurting anyone or doing anything, like, illegal, that everyone would accept it, you know, just carry on loving me anyway.” Meg "
95 " When she left, she took with her any sense I had of myself as a worthwhile person. Without her I was just this blank space. When she died my whole world turned black. "
96 " What’s happy got to do with anything? Look, we’re here for absolutely no reason whatsoever. You do know that, don’t you? People try and make out there’s a greater purpose, a secret meaning, that it all means something. And it doesn’t. We’re a bunch of freaks. That’s all there is to it. A big bunch of stupid, inconsequential freaks. We don’t have to be happy. We don’t have to be normal. We don’t even have to be alive. Not if we don’t want to. We can do whatever we want as long as we don’t hurt anyone. "
97 " You never really know a person until after they're dead. That's when it all comes out. All the stuff they locked up in boxes. All the secrets, all the lies. That's when you really know the truth. "
― Lisa Jewell , Before I Met You
98 " Did you know that the parts of the brain involved in decision-making aren’t fully developed until you’re twenty-five years old? "
99 " able to give. "
100 " You're here every night, you join in, but you always seem to be - I don't know - more of a spectator than a participant, as if you are studying us, possibly for some sort of anthropological purpose. Do you even like us? "