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The Widow (Kate Waters, #1) QUOTES

The Widow (Kate Waters, #1) QUOTES

1 " It's a strange feeling, owning a secret. It's like a stone in my stomach, crushing my insides and making me feel sick every time I think of it. "

― Fiona Barton , The Widow (Kate Waters, #1)

2 " Nothing out of place. Normal to the point of abnormal. "

― Fiona Barton , The Widow (Kate Waters, #1)

3 " I remember looking at him lying there in a small pool of blood and thinking ‘oh well, that’s the end of his nonsense "

― Fiona Barton , The Widow (Kate Waters, #1)

4 " The simple lies are the hardest, funnily enough. The big ones seem to just fall off the tongue: "

― Fiona Barton , The Widow (Kate Waters, #1)

5 " Addicts are brilliant liars, Inspector. They lie to themselves and then to everyone else. They’re in denial about their problem, and they are experts at finding excuses and other people to blame, "

― Fiona Barton , The Widow (Kate Waters, #1)

6 " But Bella’s disappearance brought us together. Made us a real couple. I always said we needed a child. "

― Fiona Barton , The Widow (Kate Waters, #1)

7 " Funny how she keeps using my name. Like a nurse. Or a con man. "

― Fiona Barton , The Widow (Kate Waters, #1)

8 " All I can think is: Jake and Freddie. What lovely names. I stash them away for later, for my collection, "

― Fiona Barton , The Widow (Kate Waters, #1)

9 " walk "

― Fiona Barton , The Widow (Kate Waters, #1)

10 " Sparkes plowed on. “And that’s just the university staff.” The joke fell to the ground, writhing. “Right,” the chief super said. “Okay, she’s qualified, but why her and not our "

― Fiona Barton , The Widow (Kate Waters, #1)

11 " No one wanted to know us now. They just wanted to know about us. "

― Fiona Barton , The Widow (Kate Waters, #1)

12 " And we were in too deep for me to walk away. I’d lied for him. It "

― Fiona Barton , The Widow (Kate Waters, #1)

13 " she walked in, dark suit and black mood stark against the white tablecloths. "

― Fiona Barton , The Widow (Kate Waters, #1)

14 " He looks like the bloke next door, was Sparks's first thought. But then, monsters rarely look the part. You hope you'll be able to see the evil shining out of them. It would make police work a damn sight easier, he often said. But evil was a slippery substance, glimpsed only occasionally, and all the more horrifying for that, he knew. "

― Fiona Barton , The Widow (Kate Waters, #1)

15 " Wednesday’s child is full of woe. The "

― Fiona Barton , The Widow (Kate Waters, #1)

16 " The computer was more of a wife than I was. In all sorts of ways, as it turned out. "

― Fiona Barton , The Widow (Kate Waters, #1)

17 " I didn’t think the police would see me in the middle of all those hundreds of names, but, of course, they see everything. "

― Fiona Barton , The Widow (Kate Waters, #1)

18 " When you’re talking to real people—people without an ego or something to sell—it can be complete exposure of one person to another, an intense intimacy that excludes everyone and everything else, "

― Fiona Barton , The Widow (Kate Waters, #1)

19 " Funny things, birthdays. Everyone seems to love them, but I dread them—the buildup, the pressure to be happy, to have a good time, the disappointment when I don’t. "

― Fiona Barton , The Widow (Kate Waters, #1)

20 " neighbors’ doors, but no one had seen him "

― Fiona Barton , The Widow (Kate Waters, #1)