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Sleep Tight (DCI Tom Douglas, #3) QUOTES

Sleep Tight (DCI Tom Douglas, #3) QUOTES

1 " Even those we’ve loved all our lives are highly unlikely to be perfect. "

― Rachel Abbott , Sleep Tight (DCI Tom Douglas, #3)

2 " what that meant. He could spend the night "

― Rachel Abbott , Sleep Tight (DCI Tom Douglas, #3)

3 " One of the women was a natural bitch – all women recognise them, but men rarely do. "

― Rachel Abbott , Sleep Tight (DCI Tom Douglas, #3)

4 " problems "

― Rachel Abbott , Sleep Tight (DCI Tom Douglas, #3)

5 " I’d begun to feel as if there was a creeping deadness inside me, encroaching on the calm and replacing it with a black void, a vacuum where emotion should be. And the deadness was growing and penetrating every corner of my soul, reaching out its dark tentacles to smother all natural reactions. "

― Rachel Abbott , Sleep Tight (DCI Tom Douglas, #3)

6 " slammed "

― Rachel Abbott , Sleep Tight (DCI Tom Douglas, #3)

7 " at the guest house in Anglesey,’ Tom stated. "

― Rachel Abbott , Sleep Tight (DCI Tom Douglas, #3)

8 " this house. I don’t think "

― Rachel Abbott , Sleep Tight (DCI Tom Douglas, #3)

9 " But nobody was there; nobody was even looking. "

― Rachel Abbott , Sleep Tight (DCI Tom Douglas, #3)

10 " The girl was smiling as she left the noisy, packed pub, and shouts of laughter were ringing in her ears as she wrestled the heavy door open, letting in an icy blast of cold air. She "

― Rachel Abbott , Sleep Tight (DCI Tom Douglas, #3)

11 " rumbustious. "

― Rachel Abbott , Sleep Tight (DCI Tom Douglas, #3)

12 " The years since Dan haven’t all been bad, but in the brief time I had with him I felt as if my spirit was alive – as if bubbles were effervescing inside me. I sparkled. With Robert there were never bubbles, but I was content to settle for stillness. After Dan and then what happened with my parents, serenity and calm seemed to be just what I needed, but as the years passed I started to realise that it wasn’t enough. And that was before I understood it all – before I knew the reason I had lost Dan. "

― Rachel Abbott , Sleep Tight (DCI Tom Douglas, #3)

13 " her way and a few arms were raised in a farewell salute, but most were otherwise occupied with pint glasses, or were gesticulating wildly to emphasise "

― Rachel Abbott , Sleep Tight (DCI Tom Douglas, #3)

14 " imagined his skin as the flesh of a snake and I couldn’t drive the image from my mind. "

― Rachel Abbott , Sleep Tight (DCI Tom Douglas, #3)

15 " The dark night settled around her and the sudden silence hit her like a physical blow. For a moment she stood still. "

― Rachel Abbott , Sleep Tight (DCI Tom Douglas, #3)

16 " But now I realise that I’ve settled for mediocrity. How had I let it happen? How did I lose myself? "

― Rachel Abbott , Sleep Tight (DCI Tom Douglas, #3)

17 " over-excited, "

― Rachel Abbott , Sleep Tight (DCI Tom Douglas, #3)

18 " If a man tries to steal your wife, the best form of revenge is to let him have her. "

― Rachel Abbott , Sleep Tight (DCI Tom Douglas, #3)

19 " there was nothing "

― Rachel Abbott , Sleep Tight (DCI Tom Douglas, #3)

20 " of sorrow and distress, or something else "

― Rachel Abbott , Sleep Tight (DCI Tom Douglas, #3)