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61 " As if an affair was a lightning strike, a burst tyre, a heart attack. Something that could not be predicted or avoided, rather than two people making a choice to do it, act on it. "
― Claire McGowan , The Other Wife
62 " Those Russian women, they knew how to deal with cold, and that was by throwing all sense of fashion out the window and essentially going out dressed as a bed. "
63 " He hoped his new-found mate hadn’t heard that, but the kid was engrossed in Mario Kart. No violent games allowed. "
― Claire McGowan , What You Did
64 " Eamonn Carr was coming in with tea on a tray, and what looked like home-made biscuits. Paula took her drink gratefully, but saw that Guy just sipped his and put it down on a well-placed coaster. "
― Claire McGowan , The Lost (Paula McGuire, #1)
65 " It was crazy, the prisons that people made in their minds. "
66 " But that’s the thing about rock-bottom. It gives you something firm to put your feet on, at last. "
67 " This was not my life, and yet here I was stuck in it. "
68 " We aren’t meant to know what other people think in this level of detail. "
69 " Who cares what people think? You don’t know them. I hate all this, this social media mob. We aren’t meant to know what other people think in this level of detail. "
70 " kettle on the Aga. The room was freezing, despite the fancy new underfloor heating, "
71 " All this time I’d been waiting for someone to take charge, and it seemed now that someone was me. "
72 " Everything I had known, everything I’d built my life on was a lie. I had not known my husband at all. I had not known anything. "
73 " even when you think you’ve lost it all, there is still more that can be taken from you. "
74 " But still, the thing that was between them, it did not go away, it did not die, it just kept getting hungrier and hungrier, and sometimes the sheer power of it, of knowing she would do anything for it, hit her like a wave. It was wrong. But sometimes that didn’t matter. "
75 " then gone right away. "
76 " You live on the Costa del Sol, you lucky cow. Meanwhile I live with my mum in Walsall!!!! "
77 " never seemed to be frightened of anything, just bored or anxious. "
― Claire McGowan , I Know You
78 " He found his phone: no messages. A feeling of desolation came over him, "
79 " if you admit to friends how unhappy you are, you have to admit it to yourself as well. "
80 " Extreme grief had a look about it. It was like being very tired or very hungover. Your movements slowed down, your eyes heavy and blinking, as if the world had gone into slow motion. "
― Claire McGowan , The Silent Dead (Paula Maguire, #3)