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1 " I do not know what is going to happen to us. I am frightened but I feel strong. I have the strength of a woman who has everything to loose. "
― Erin Kelly , The Poison Tree
2 " A good mother loves fiercely but ultimately brings up her children to thrive without her. They must be the most important thing in her life, but if she is the most important thing in theirs, she has failed. "
― Erin Kelly , The Burning Air
3 " That's the thing about sleepwalking . You can walk, eat, have conversations and even drive cars in perfect safety. The danger comes from waking up too quickly. "
4 " Daybreak,' he said, looking out at it. 'I always thought it was funny that dawn should be called daybreak. This is when the day is made - it's the beginning. I'ts the best part: you've got all the potential of the day to come, and you haven't wasted yet. When it gets dark, that should be daybreak. When the day is broken. When it turns into night time, that's when it all start's to go wrong. "
5 " Waiting for something horrible to happen is almost more draining than it actually happening. "
― Erin Kelly , He Said/She Said
6 " Grief is like a splinter deep into every fingertip; to touch anything is torture. "
― Erin Kelly , Broadchurch (Broadchurch, #1)
7 " The angry mob of villagers wield camera phones, the twenty-first century equivalent of pitchforks and flaming torches. "
8 " ...so I blocked it from my mind. I could do that with things I didn't want to think about, like snapping shut a book. "
9 " The stress hormones of adrenaline and cortisol, when pumped in sufficient quantity, rival anything you can smoke or swallow. Within a year of the Lizard, I would envy those who could dry out in rehab. When you suffer from anxiety, you carry an endless supply. "
10 " It’s Hardy’s idea of hell – fresh air, isolation, grass, never-ending sky – but he knows that the world’s full of idiots who love this sort of thing. "
11 " As this went on, I realised that it is more tiring to be bored than to be engaged. "
12 " There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is seeing something that isn’t there. THOMAS HARDY "
13 " You can get by in the foreign language, you can communicate, but the pleasure of speaking to those who understand every subtlety and nuance must make you want to cry with relief. "
14 " The moment you think about an act in terms of how, you are already halfway to doing it. "
15 " If I waited for a proper occasion to get dressed up I'd never wear half of these clothes. Put on the clothes and you make things happen to match them. It doesn't work the other way around. "
― Erin Kelly
16 " I know from my own counselling that anger always has hurt at its core. "
17 " When you only have one vanity, I think you’re allowed to indulge it.) "
18 " bone. I cried so hard that evening that I graduated from tissues to kitchen rolls to towels. "
19 " If revenge is a dish best served cold, confession should be dished up piping hot or not at all. "
20 " Leibniz said, Music is the mind counting without being conscious it’s counting. An eclipse is maths; it’s the most beautiful maths there is. "
