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41 " The places where hopeless people go to end it all, cathedrals of despair. "
― Paula Hawkins , Into the Water
42 " you never knew why. You spent your whole life trying to understand why I hated you so much, and all I had to do was tell you. "
43 " Louise's grief was like the river: constant and ever-changing. It rippled, flooded, ebbed and flowed, some days cold and dark and deep, some days swift and blinding. "
44 " Some things you should let go ofOthers you shouldn’tViews differ as to which—Emily Berry, “The Numbers Game "
45 " Nel once told me that she only ever slept with married men, because they were discreet and undemanding and they let her get on with her life. "
46 " 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. "
47 " Los horrores que es capaces de concebir la mente, son siempre mucho peores que la realidad. "
48 " - Nu te inteleg. Nu-i inteleg pe cei ca tine, care prefera intotdeauna sa dea vina pe femeie. Daca doi oameni fac ceva rau si unul din ei e fata, atunci sigur e vina ei, nu?- Nu Lena, nu-i asa, nu-i...- Ba da. E ca atunci cand cineva are o relatie extraconjugala - de ce o uraste nevasta intotdeauna pe cealalta femeie? De ce nu-si uraste sotul? El e cel care-a inselat-o, el e cel care-a jurat sa o iubeasca si sa-i ramana alaturi, bla-bla pentrun totdeauna. De ce nu e el cel care-i impins de pe-o nenorocita de stanca? "
49 " نعرف الآن أن الذكريات ليست ثابتة و لا متجمدة مثل علب مربيات الفاكهة في البراد، بل هي تحول و تفكك و يعاد تركيبها و تصنيفها مع كل فعل تذكر. "
50 " لا أعرف أبدا كيف أميز بين ذكرياتي الحقيقية و ذكرياتي غير الحقيقية. "
51 " They never opened the window and leaned out, they never looked down at the wheel, rotting where it stood, they never looked past the sunlight playing on the water’s surface, they never saw what the water really was, greenish-black and filled with living things and dying things. "
52 " 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 for ever and ever. "
53 " I was running along the coastal path, clasping Mum’s bracelet to my wrist. I was terrified that it was going to drop off and go sliding down the cliff into the sea. I wanted to put it in my mouth for safekeeping, like crocodiles do with their babies. "
54 " Grief, shock, it affects people in strange ways. I’ve seen people react to bad news with laughter, with seeming indifference, with anger, with fear. "
55 " I was very young when I cracked open. Some things you should let go of, Others you shouldn't, Views differ as to which. ~'The Numbers Game', Emily Berry "
56 " That was always a thing with you. When you were younger, you were fascinated by the physical act, the bones of it, the viscera. You asked questions: Would it hurt? For how long? What did it feel like to hit water from a height? Would you feel yourself break? You thought less, I think, about the rest of it: about what it took to get someone to the top of the cliff or the edge of the beach, and to propel them to keep moving. "
57 " 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. Everyone wanted to put it behind them, to get on with things, and there you were, in the way, blocking the path, dragging the body of your dead child behind you. "
58 " ¿Cómo es que puedo recordar con semejante perfección las cosas que me sucedieron cuando tenía ocho años y, en cambio, me resulta imposible recordar si he hablado o no con mis colegas sobre el cambio de fecha de la evaluación de un cliente? Las cosas que quiero recordar se me olvidan, y las que intento olvidar no dejan de acudir a mi mente. "
59 " to swim. Some say the women left something of themselves in the water; some say it retains some of their power, for ever since then it has drawn to its shores the unlucky, the desperate, the unhappy, the lost. They come here to swim with their sisters. "
60 " I was running along the coastal path, clasping Mum's bracelet to my wrist. I was terrified that it was going to drop off and go sliding down the cliff into the sea. I wanted to put it in my mouth for safekeeping, like crocodiles do with their babies. "