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41 " Without even a hint of anything more than a platonic relationship, this man had taken his time to see me through the worst possible point of my life. I wasn’t capable of love at that moment—I was too dried out by all the hate that had burned inside me—but I was close to loving him. There was a strong sense of affection blossoming in my blackened shell. Which "
― Sarah A. Denzil , Silent Child (Silent Child, #1)
42 " I flinched. Sonya moved like a panther. Her voice cut through my own suffocating thoughts, jarring me back to reality. “Thanks. "
43 " The quote goes on about a woman scorned. Scorned. As if the jealousy of a lover could ever compete with the ferocity of a mother. "
44 " me turn back. I didn’t. “Everything is going to be all right,” I said. "
45 " I could build a whole new version of me just by stacking up all my regrets. "
― Sarah A. Denzil , The Liar's Sister
46 " People are multi-layered. Anyone can have a private side that verges on the dark and dangerous. Your doctor could be a sadist. Your primary school teacher could be a paedophile. Your beauty therapist could be a murderer. It could be anything. "
47 " Aiden had been born. He had existed. He was still here. And he had a story deep down inside that deserved to be heard and processed by his mother. “Emma, "
48 " The experts explained to me that when someone drowns in a flood, they do not float downstream like many people believe. They actually sink underneath the turbulent water where it is calmer, and then they rise to the top very close to where they drowned. "
49 " In that most mundane of actions, I had one of those moments, the kind you remember for a lifetime, the kind that slow down and leave a permanent imprint on your mind. "
50 " Silent Child By Sarah A. Denzil "
51 " We all failed her, but I failed her the most because I didn’t raise her with the tools she needed to be able to cope with this world. For that I’ll never forgive myself. "
― Sarah A. Denzil , Only Daughter
52 " As if the jealousy of a lover could ever compete with the ferocity of a mother. I "
53 " The day I lost Aiden was the day I realised what it meant to lose control. "
54 " Women can never be shrill. It does something to a man. It hits them square in the testicles and shrivels them right up. "
55 " life. I lost control of my life. Everything around me fell apart while I remained the impotent bystander. I’ve "
56 " sometimes our problems aren’t so easy to set aside. Sometimes they cling on to us, filling us up until we can’t see anything else. "
― Sarah A. Denzil , Saving April
57 " She stretched me to my limits in terms of affection and love, and yet the more she demanded, the more I found within myself. "
58 " I’d almost forgotten that bit. Aiden insisted on calling his dragon Walnut because my mum loved her Walnut Whips, and I was always teasing her about the walnut addiction. Somehow, Aiden latched onto the association between his Nana and the walnuts. Hearing the familiar name hit me in the gut with a bomb of emotion. It erupted through me, fireworks extending to my fingers and toes. That was what I used to have. That was my perfect, happy time. "
59 " I nod and smile, I tell myself it is good to listen to another human being. I spend so much time on my own that there are days where I don't even speak aloud. "
60 " We all experience mental illness in a slightly different way, which is why these illnesses are hard to diagnose. We’re all unique beings. In that sense, we’re all alone in the world, if you stop and think about it. "
― Sarah A. Denzil , Two for Joy (Isabel Fielding, #2)