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Into the Water QUOTES

Into the Water QUOTES

1 " We tell our stories differently, don't we, you and I? "

― Paula Hawkins , Into the Water

2 " We now know that memories are not fixed or frozen, like Proust’s jars of preserves in a larder, but are transformed, disassembled, reassembled, and recategorized with every act of recollection. —Oliver Sacks, Hallucinations "

― Paula Hawkins , Into the Water

3 " We now know that memories are not fixed or frozen, like Proust's jars of preserves n a larder, but transformed, disassembled, reassembled, and recategorised with every act of recollection. ~Hallucinations, Oliver Sacks "

― Paula Hawkins , Into the Water

4 " Louises Trauer war wie der Fluss: konstant und doch nie gleich. Sie konnte Wellen schlagen oder alles überschwemmen, vorübergehend abebben oder dahinströmen, an manchen Tagen kalt und dunkel und tief sein, an anderen reißend und blendend. "

― Paula Hawkins , Into the Water

5 " Beware a calm surface—you never know what lies beneath. "

― Paula Hawkins , Into the Water

6 " The things I want to remember I can't, and the things I try so hard to forget just keep coming. "

― Paula Hawkins , Into the Water

7 " Yes, it is. It’s, like, when someone has an affair, why does the wife always hate the other woman? Why doesn’t she hate her husband? He’s the one who’s betrayed her, he’s the one who swore to love her and keep her and whatever forever and ever. Why isn’t he the one who gets shoved off a fucking cliff? "

― Paula Hawkins , Into the Water

8 " She felt it when she woke, not a presence but an absence. "

― Paula Hawkins , Into the Water

9 " She had never realized before her life was torn apart how awkward grief was, how inconvenient for everyone with whom the mourner came into contact. At first it was acknowledged and respected and deferred to. But after a while it got in the way—of conversation, of laughter, of normal life. "

― Paula Hawkins , Into the Water

10 " No one liked to think about the fact that the water in that river was infected with the blood and bile of persecuted women, unhappy women; they drank it every day. "

― Paula Hawkins , Into the Water

11 " Lena's voice grew cold. "I don't understand you. I don't understand people like you, who always choose to blame the woman. If there's two people doing something wrong and one of them's a girl, it's got to be her fault, right? "

― Paula Hawkins , Into the Water

12 " The horrors conjured up by the mind are always so much worse than what is. "

― Paula Hawkins , Into the Water

13 " Anything was possible. When you hear hooves you look for horses, but you can’t discount zebras. "

― Paula Hawkins , Into the Water

14 " Imagine walking past the place where you lost someone, every single day. "

― Paula Hawkins , Into the Water

15 " You stung me like that often; cruelty always was your strong suit. "

― Paula Hawkins , Into the Water

16 " You were never the princess, you were never the passive beauty waiting for a prince, you were something else. You sided with darkness, with the wicked stepmother, the bad fairy, the witch. "

― Paula Hawkins , Into the Water

17 " Watching someone in the throes of raw grief is a terrible thing; the act of watching feels violent, intrusive, a violation. Yet we do it, we have to do it, all the time; you just have to learn to cope with it whatever way you can. "

― Paula Hawkins , Into the Water

18 " Beckford is not a suicide spot. Beckford is a place to get rid of troublesome women. "

― Paula Hawkins , Into the Water

19 " The river can go back over the past and bring it all up and spit it out on the banks in full view of everyone, but people can’t. "

― Paula Hawkins , Into the Water

20 " I thought how odd it was that parents believe they know their children, understand their children. Do they not remember what it was like to be eighteen, or fifteen, or twelve? Perhaps having children makes you forget being one. "

― Paula Hawkins , Into the Water