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S.E. Lynes QUOTES

S.E. Lynes QUOTES

1 " Unhappy people can be very dangerous, don't forget that. "

― S.E. Lynes

2 " Everything was new, everything was exciting. We were playing house, it seemed, playing at being grownups. When you’re in love, I suppose everything feels like a game. "

― S.E. Lynes , Valentina

3 " Life is the last thing you can ever take from someone. No matter how evil a person, murder is an act that robs us of our humanity and from which there is no return "

― S.E. Lynes , Her Sister's Secret

4 " Maybe she withstood and withstood and withstood until one night she could withstand no more. "

― S.E. Lynes , Her Sister's Secret

5 " Love does not switch itself off; it would be so much easier if it did. "

― S.E. Lynes , The Baby Shower

6 " But it seems to me a tragedy both specific and cruel that all the things we might do to lift ourselves out of our lowest moments - a long walk, a carefully prepared meal, a favourite piece of music - are, in those moments, all the things we cannot face, while all the things that will make us feel worse, ,much worse - eating crap, drinking too many glasses of wine, staying in a room that vibrates with haunted silence - seem infinitely enticing. "

― S.E. Lynes , The Housewarming

7 " but she has told herself that this is what marriage is, for most people: a slow peeling-away of layers, the management of inevitable disappointment at the truth beneath. We are all only human, after all. "

― S.E. Lynes , Her Sister's Secret

8 " That’s what love was – nothing fancy – just two people rooting like hell for one another. "

― S.E. Lynes , Valentina

9 " Anger gets trapped inside us, becomes hate. If we’re not careful, hate becomes a force often too hard to control and which solves nothing. "

― S.E. Lynes , Can You See Her?

10 " Revenge is not a dish best served cold. It is a dish best served not at all. "

― S.E. Lynes , Can You See Her?

11 " I was thinking… I was thinking that no matter how much love I had to give, it wasn’t enough. It would never be enough. "

― S.E. Lynes , Can You See Her?

12 " I was thinking that hate is turned on people who don’t deserve it, who aren’t responsible for the anger, who have nothing to do with the hate, not really, do you see? "

― S.E. Lynes , Can You See Her?

13 " Yes, this was where I’d got to. Status: doormat. Unable to admit to a mistake for fear of ridicule. Unable to ask for a kindness for fear of refusal. "

― S.E. Lynes , Can You See Her?

14 " I want to walk away with nothing but a suitcase and the shredded remnants of my dignity. "

― S.E. Lynes , Can You See Her?

15 " Gaslighting is when you encourage the belief in something you know to be untrue, to the detriment of someone’s mental health. "

― S.E. Lynes , The Housewarming

16 " To commit murder, to attack someone, you have to really want to, don’t you? You have to be so full of anger, rage, hate that you get to a point of not caring. "

― S.E. Lynes , Can You See Her?

17 " All of this to say that the stories we tell each other and ourselves are how we process life. Mishaps, disasters. And in your case, tragedy. "

― S.E. Lynes , Can You See Her?

18 " Her lightness took away his weight, he said. Her love untangled the rope. "

― S.E. Lynes , Mother

19 " Valentina gasped. She actually "

― S.E. Lynes , Valentina

20 " Angela who might be Andrea or Alison "

― S.E. Lynes , Can You See Her?