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1 " It always amazes me how it is so easy to appear one way to the people around you but to live inside as someone else entirely. "
― K.L. Slater , Safe With Me
2 " You could say it feels a bit like dressing up in the brightest party clothes so nobody sees how low and lost you feel underneath. You'd be surprised how easy it is to hide your true feelings with a smile and a kind word. "
3 " You can never be sure quite how much time you’ve got with the people you love "
4 " Is he going to be alright?’ Ivy presses a fist to her lips. ‘All will be revealed in good time,’ Dr Khan replies without looking at her. ‘Head injuries can be tricky things; no two are the same.’ ‘He doesn’t seem to know me, Doctor,’ Ivy says. ‘Some memory loss can be expected under the circumstances,’ Dr Khan mutters, studying a printout. He looks up sharply with raised eyebrows. ‘Give it time, Mrs—’ ‘Bradbury,’ the nurse supplies. We are asked to move outside to the waiting area in the main ward. Ivy falls silent and sits with her head bowed, "
5 " One Present day Anna The small silver car coming the other way is moving far too fast, and as it takes the bend, the driver loses control and veers over on to the wrong "
6 " There is no such thing as a memory-keeper, no entity exists that has the power to declare whether things really happened or not. All we have are the pictures and the short films we play over and over in our mind's eye. "
7 " Sometimes my memories get a bit blurred, good and bad ones together, until it is virtually impossible to separate them. But after all, what are memories but pictures in your mind? "
8 " This morning it happens at three thirty a.m. and I am scared to move. Scared of what? I haven't got a clue and that just makes it worse. "
9 " how easy it is to hide your true feelings with a smile and a kind word. "
10 " You push the chair right up next to them so the fabrics are touching. You carefully extract two balls of molten coal from the ashes with the tongs, carefully placing each one in the middle of the cushions. Now you sit back to watch them melting in, deep down. The glowing balls sink greedily into the soft foam, and the scorched fabric cover of the cushion shrinks back as if it’s trying to escape. "
11 " hear this a lot but reviews are so massively important to authors. If you’ve enjoyed ‘Safe with Me’ and could spare just a few minutes on Amazon or Goodreads to say so, I would so appreciate that. You can also connect with me via my website, on Facebook or Twitter. If you’ve enjoyed this, my debut novel, you might be interested to know that I’ve been "
12 " You can’t see into the future so stop telling yourself the story of how bad things are going to get, "
13 " believed she was innocent. "
14 " send myself birthday cards every year, but it was the first time I’d done flowers. "
15 " mustn’t cough. You don’t want to wake them, set the sillies screaming and crying. Leave them to their dreams, they will learn soon enough. The flames grow larger, then fuse together. You know it’s a sign that they are silently promising to help you and yet, for a second, you actually consider changing your mind. You could stomp down the flames and shout for help. You could wake them up. Then you hear "