Alex Marwood QUOTES

1 " Most people have to get to a point where they don't have a choice before they'll change something. "

2 " A night spent scraping off the evidence of other people's fun is a wearisome thing. "

― Alex Marwood , The Wicked Girls

3 " But let's face it: society doesn't really care who it blames, as long as it blames someone "

― Alex Marwood , The Wicked Girls

4 " His love is forged in tears. "

― Alex Marwood , The Killer Next Door

5 " while you must strive to tell the truth, you must first ask yourself: is it kind and is it helpful? "

― Alex Marwood , The Darkest Secret

6 " The hoard here is just as regimented, kept hidden from prying eyes by its obsessive use of containers. But I know from looking in that cupboard that inside those cardboard boxes is a wormhole to a world of chaos. That is what she was always like, I suppose, rigid control on the surface, and the howling void beneath. That's why so many people cling so desperately to their semblances of discipline, their habits, schedules, routines, diets, personal trainers, personal grooming, theories of morality. It's all about the fear of the chaos beneath. It's certainly true of India, nothing in her life is real unless it's been ticked off on a list. For us, the recognition of the void came so early that we were always going to go one of two ways, spend our lives fighting valiantly to hold back the tide the way she does, or, like me, accept the truth and let the chaos reign. "

― Alex Marwood , The Darkest Secret

7 " «Gli adulti sono solo bambini nascosti dal peso dell’esperienza, "

― Alex Marwood , The Wicked Girls

8 " She's had plenty of experience of job loss from the other side in her life, but had never noticed how calculated to cause offence a lot of human-resources-speak actually is. "

― Alex Marwood , The Wicked Girls

9 " More people should understand what a gift it is, growing up thinking you're a nobody. "

― Alex Marwood , The Darkest Secret

10 " I don’t want to get old, thinks Cher. There’s nothing in the world will make me live like that, smelling of piss and my tits round my knees and not even able to keep warm on a day like this. "

― Alex Marwood , The Killer Next Door

11 " that small rush of liquid lust once more. ‘I want a drink,’ says Chloe. ‘Take me home.’ ‘Why don’t you just go home?’ asks Darren nastily. ‘Go on. Shoo.’ Chloe looks stubborn. ‘Bloody hell,’ says Debbie. ‘I’ll give you ten p.’ ‘You haven’t got ten p,’ says Chloe doubtfully. ‘Yeah, but I do,’ says Darren "

― Alex Marwood , The Wicked Girls

12 " He wasn’t a god. He wasn’t a saviour. He was a … dirty old man. That’s what he was. A dirty old man. He was fifty when he pinned me down and made Eden, and I was so blind I thought it was an honour. But it wasn’t. He would stand on these steps and eye us all, and every now and then he’d pick one out. He didn’t care about the children. He wasn’t doing it to make the One. It was all just one big ugly story so he could have his pick of the passing flesh. A dirty old man, and Vita pimping for him. Out "

― Alex Marwood , The Poison Garden

13 " They’ve bought Jared a Wii and he doesn’t need his old laptop any more. "

― Alex Marwood , The Wicked Girls

14 " He grew up thinking that it was all about the men, that the women were just waiting to be chosen, and that all the men had to do was choose. It’s been a terrible disappointment to discover that the rules are more complicated. "

― Alex Marwood , The Killer Next Door

15 " anorak "

― Alex Marwood , The Wicked Girls