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Her Sister's Secret QUOTES

1 " 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

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

― S.E. Lynes , Her Sister's Secret

3 " 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

4 " I close my eyes. Funny how it's our eyes we close to somehow hear less, when in fact it concentrates the sense even further "

― S.E. Lynes , Her Sister's Secret

5 " Friends with man like Dominic, he probably found himself in his shadow. For such a short man, Dominic's shadow was surprising long "

― S.E. Lynes , Her Sister's Secret

6 " I just need to believe I can find real love, not fireworks and fancy tricks that end in cruelty. I want kindness. I'm never going to settle for anything less than kindness "

― S.E. Lynes , Her Sister's Secret

7 " The fire, what came after the fire, the reality of my sister's life, her death - the truth has fallen in slow rain. Even now, I know I have yet to turn my face to its last acid drops "

― S.E. Lynes , Her Sister's Secret

8 " But loneliness is like shame, she thinks. If you hold your head high, no one can see it. No one can know it is there "

― S.E. Lynes , Her Sister's Secret

9 " That's how it is with secrets: they dilute. Your own is the strongest possible concentration, someone else's already weaker, and so on until the secret is water running as freely through the village as from a burst main "

― S.E. Lynes , Her Sister's Secret

10 " He is only almost a man. "

― S.E. Lynes , Her Sister's Secret

11 " I close my eyes, but we cannot close our physical senses to what our mind conjures for us: what images, what sounds "

― S.E. Lynes , Her Sister's Secret

12 " Isla pretends to consult the map, panting. ‘After this, it’s downhill all the way to Shiel Bridge. "

― S.E. Lynes , Her Sister's Secret