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1 " As if the jealousy of a lover could ever compete with the ferocity of a mother. "
― Sarah A. Denzil
2 " The mother is always at fault. so is the wife, really. Women are supposed to control men, isn't that how it goes? what's that saying again: 'behind every great man is a great woman.' we're supposed to be the ones holding them back. forget having our own lives. forget our own careers and loves and losses. we're the matriarchs. "
― Sarah A. Denzil , Silent Child (Silent Child, #1)
3 " No one wants to believe they are weak, but we all have weakness inside us. We have strength, too, but there are times when the circumstances in our lives are so overwhelming that we easily succumb to that weakness "
4 " For a moment, she thought she was crying too. But then she realised she was just humming.Finally, she could hear the farm.A snippet of a song played in her head. One of the songs she always heard blasting over the farm’s loudspeakers. A song about summer days under the sun. She could really hear it. She could feel the warm, sultry air on her skin, and she wasn’t cold anymore.The air was always yellow at the farm.Golden yellow. "
― Sarah A. Denzil , Poison Orchids
5 " She let the petals drop through her fingers. “People romanticise stars. They’re just hot-as-hell suns. Not centaurs. Not twinkling little jewels to wish upon. Just suns. "
6 " Monsters are men and women just like us, and they have the ability to hide their true face. "
7 " I’ve heard it said that you can only control yourself and how you behave in any given setting. You can never control the circumstances around you. You can’t control how other people react, only how you, yourself, act. That’s the great tragedy of life. One moment everything is perfect and the next it’s all in tatters because of the circumstances happening all around you. And what are you supposed to think when your child is taken from you? That it was fate? God? Bad luck? How are you supposed to move on? When "
8 " No one should regret loving and trusting another human being. Yes, sometimes we direct our love and trust to the wrong person, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t have done it at all. Hearts should be protected, but they shouldn’t be forced to close. "
9 " Scorned. As if the jealousy of a lover could ever compete with the ferocity of a mother. "
10 " But they don’t know what it’s truly like to lose control, and I’m not talking about my emotions, but about my life. I lost control of my life. Everything around me fell apart while I remained the impotent bystander. I’ve "
11 " Never say you hate someone or something unless you really mean it, because hate is not finding a presenter on the telly annoying, or losing your temper with a sibling—it’s an all-consuming living thing that starts in your bowels and infects your blood until it blackens your heart. And "
12 " No one wants to believe they are weak, but we all have weakness inside us. We have strength, too, but there are times when the circumstances in our lives are so overwhelming that we easily succumb to that weakness. "
13 " No one likes to be ordinary. Everyone wants to be different. People try so hard to be different, that they end up all being the same. "
― Sarah A. Denzil , Saving April
14 " People are multi-layered. Anyone can have a private side that verges on the dark and dangerous. "
15 " You and me. We’ll be a team again, like we were when we lived at Nana’s house, remember? We fought crime, you and me. You were Superman, obviously, you had the cape. I was just your sidekick but you made sure we caught the baddies every time. We’re going to do that again, I promise.” And "
16 " If you ever find yourself sitting alone with your mind on a loop of all the worst things that have ever happened to you, then you’ll know exactly what I mean, and the only thing that turns it off is alcohol. "
― Sarah A. Denzil , One for Sorrow (Isabel Fielding, #1)
17 " If you get to live your life without ever experiencing hatred, then count yourself lucky. "
18 " How do mothers do that? How do they always manage to slip in a criticism as easily as saying hello? "
― Sarah A. Denzil , The Broken Ones
19 " I lost control of my life. Everything around me fell apart while I remained the impotent bystander. I’ve "
20 " I thought, for one brief, tiny instant, that if the car kept going, if it hit my mum—if that car had mowed down my mother right in front of me, everything would end. She would be gone. She would no longer be suffering with this disease, with the pieces of her mind disappearing bit by bit. And I would be free. "
