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21 " Revenge is seeing someone suffer for a lifetime in retribution for what they’ve put you through. If I had wanted revenge on Mark, he wouldn’t be dead. "
― Rachel Abbott , And So It Begins (Stephanie King #1)
22 " One of the women was a natural bitch – all women recognise them, but men rarely do. "
― Rachel Abbott , Sleep Tight (DCI Tom Douglas, #3)
23 " Well, she thought, I made a right cock of that. "
― Rachel Abbott , The Sixth Window (DCI Tom Douglas, #6)
24 " How could pain that wasn’t inflicted by a physical assault hurt so much? How could emotional distress turn into this agonising emptiness? "
― Rachel Abbott , Stranger Child (DCI Tom Douglas, #4)
25 " We all lie. To ourselves and to each other. We make excuses by referring to our untruths as fibs or white lies, trivialising them as harmless. Or we claim they are necessary to shelter others from hurt. However we try to justify them, whatever their shape or form, they are still lies. "
― Rachel Abbott , The Shape of Lies (DCI Tom Douglas, #8)
26 " Tiger kidnap,’ Green "
27 " Procrastination, Tom.’ ‘Yes–I know. It’s the thief of time.’ Leo had given him a smug look. ‘I wasn’t going to say that–I was going to say makes easy things hard, hard things harder. "
28 " Friedrich Nietzsche said, ‘I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you. "
― Rachel Abbott , The Back Road (DCI Tom Douglas, #2)
29 " Esme DuPont. "
― Rachel Abbott , Come A Little Closer (DCI Tom Douglas, #7)
30 " From the moment the cupboard door was slammed shut, trapping them both inside, she knew something was different. It should have seemed just like every other day, but somehow it didn’t. She felt the familiar pain and discomfort — the same as always. So what was it? "
31 " It wasn’t just his secret, though. It could end Tom’s career, even send him to prison. And Philippa Stanley, who knew exactly what Tom had done, could suffer a similar fate. Worse still, it could result in an evil bastard, who was currently rotting in jail, getting the revenge he so badly sought. "
32 " Suicide had never been something he had found easy to deal with in his job. It spoke of a level of hopelessness that was outside his comprehension. Even in the bleakest moments of his life he had managed to retain the hope that each day, things would get a little better. "
33 " said he’d made many mistakes in his life and that the day of reckoning had finally arrived. He’d made a decision that he knew was going to cause pain, but as far as he was concerned it was the only way out of an existence that had become unbearable "
34 " hurt "
35 " problems "
36 " the punishment. But Julie wouldn’t want "
37 " aberration "
38 " So why let her blackmail you then?’ He raises his eyes to mine for the first time and his voice shakes with his words. ‘Because I’m so ashamed. I wouldn’t have been able to lie to you if she’d presented the evidence. And God knows what Lucas will do to me. His respect means so much to me. It’s hard to explain, but he rescued me from a difficult time, and this is how I repaid him! I couldn’t bear the thought of either of you knowing. I would lose both my best friend and my wife – although I suspect that ship has already sailed.’ He gives a bitter laugh and I feel sorry but wonder if he’s right. Not just because of this, but because of how he’s behaved – building barriers between us to protect himself should I, in the end, choose to reject him. I understand it now, but I’m not sure it matters. "
― Rachel Abbott , The Invitation (Stephanie King, #2)
39 " Sometimes she thought of David as an ostrich, burying his head in the sand and forcing himself to believe that all would be well. It was one of the few things about him that she found frustrating. It wasn’t so much optimism as an inability to face reality and a tendency to look for the easy way out. "
40 " Since we now know that the father’s death "
― Rachel Abbott , Only the Innocent (DCI Tom Douglas, #1)