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41 " I wanted to scream. The panic built inside me like a volcano, pressing up through the layers of closed throat and clenched teeth. And then I thought, in a kind of delirium - if I scream, what's the worst that can happen? Someone might hear? Let them hear. "
― Ruth Ware , The Woman in Cabin 10
42 " Lissie says she finds the notion of chemically rebalancing your mood scary, she says it’s the idea of taking something that could alter how she really is. But I don’t see it that way; for me it’s like wearing makeup—not a disguise, but a way of making myself more how I really am, less raw. The best me I can be. "
43 " I clicked on mail and downloaded my e-mails, chewing my nails as they popped one by one into the in-box. "
44 " Cognitive behavioral therapy, counseling, psychotherapy—none of it really worked in the way that the pills did. Lissie says she finds the notion of chemically rebalancing your mood scary, she says it’s the idea of taking something that could alter how she really is. But I don’t see it that way; for me it’s like wearing makeup—not a disguise, but a way of making myself more how I really am, less raw. The best me I can be. "
45 " Ben has seen me without makeup. And he walked away. I was angry for a long time, but in the end, I realized, I don’t blame him. The year I turned twenty-five was pretty bloody awful. If I could have walked away from myself, I would have. "
46 " It’s like something out of a novel. "
47 " The year I turned twenty-five was pretty bloody awful. If I could have walked away from myself, I would have. "
48 " There's a reason why we keep thoughts inside our heads for the most part — they're not safe to be let out in public. "
49 " I knew what it was like to be that girl — to realize in an instant, how incredibly fragile your hold on life could be, how paper-thin the walls of security really were. "
50 " She finds the notion of chemically rebalancing your mood scary, she says it's the idea of taking something that could alter how she really is. But I don't see it that way; for me it's like wearing makeup — not a disguise, but a way of making myself more how I really am, less raw. The best me I can be. "
51 " It's totally alien to me — as you know, I live for travel. I can't imagine confining yourself to a petty little country like Norway when the restaurants and capitals of the world await. "
52 " But I had never despaired, and it was despair that I was feeling now. "