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The Night She Disappeared QUOTES

1 " Men don’t know, she thinks, they don’t know how having a baby makes you protective of your skin, your body, your space. When you spend all day giving yourself to a baby in every way that it’s possible to give yourself to another human being, the last thing you want at the end of the day is a grown man wanting you to give him things too. Men don’t know how the touch of a hand against the back of your neck can feel like a request, not a gesture of love, how emotional issues become too cumbersome to deal with, how their love for you is too much sometimes, just too much. Kim sometimes thinks that women practise being mothers on men until they become actual mothers, leaving behind a kind of vacancy. "

― Lisa Jewell , The Night She Disappeared

2 " Kim sometimes thinks that women practice being mothers on men until they become actual mothers, leaving behind a kind of vacancy. "

― Lisa Jewell , The Night She Disappeared

3 " People are easier to deal with if they underestimate you. "

― Lisa Jewell , The Night She Disappeared

4 " It’s clearly not a topic he wants to give any oxygen to. "

― Lisa Jewell , The Night She Disappeared

5 " Sophie’s gut reaction had been no. No no no no no. She was a Londoner. She was independent. She had a career of her own. A social life. Her family lived in London. "

― Lisa Jewell , The Night She Disappeared

6 " overcome "

― Lisa Jewell , The Night She Disappeared

7 " Zach isn’t liberal. He has no time for political correctness. He is his mother’s son: small-minded, self-absorbed, inward-thinking, a little bit racist, a little bit homophobic, a little bit misogynistic. All those things that don’t matter when you’re fourteen and in love, but start to sprout insidiously to the surface over the years it takes you to go from child to adult, and even now it’s not blatant but she knows him well enough to know that it’s there. "

― Lisa Jewell , The Night She Disappeared

8 " Oh, you know,’ she says, her voice cracking slightly. ‘Just your typical level-two fucked-up rich girl having a stupid crisis. Just ignore me. It’s best. "

― Lisa Jewell , The Night She Disappeared

9 " Seems strange,’ he continues. ‘A girl you barely know, yet you have selfies with her on your phone and then she’s cuddling up to you at the bus stop like she’s your best friend. "

― Lisa Jewell , The Night She Disappeared

10 " My theory, currently, is that this is someone who has known something all along whilst remaining in the shadows. Someone who knows what happened to Tallulah and Zach. "

― Lisa Jewell , The Night She Disappeared

11 " It can’t be a coincidence, she thinks now; it can’t be a coincidence that they’ve all gone, that they’ve abandoned houses, social media platforms, college places, friends. "

― Lisa Jewell , The Night She Disappeared

12 " can’t believe you, Lules. You binned me off because I kissed my ex, and all the while you’ve got a secret fucking baby.’ Tallulah throws "

― Lisa Jewell , The Night She Disappeared

13 " Shit. Sorry. It was on silent,’ he mimics her. ‘What the sort of mother goes out without telling anyone and leaves their phone on silent? "

― Lisa Jewell , The Night She Disappeared

14 " So here’s me, working my-fucking-self to death, day in day out, never spend a penny on anything, not a fucking penny. Single-handedly trying to get us a place to live, and you’re just going to the pub with some slag called Keziah who I’ve never even fucking heard of. "

― Lisa Jewell , The Night She Disappeared

15 " Sophie does a double take. She scrolls through the comments and sees that Lexie’s followers are under the impression that these are the doors to her house. That this is her home. And Lexie does nothing to correct these misapprehensions. She lets her followers believe that yes, this is where she lives. "

― Lisa Jewell , The Night She Disappeared

16 " That she needs to stop writing about herself and start writing about the wide world, not just one corner of it. That she is nearly thirty-five and it's time for her to move on. With or without Shaun. "

― Lisa Jewell , The Night She Disappeared

17 " People want to do all manner of things, Kim. If it wasn't for people doing things that the likes of you and I would never do, I'd be out of a job. "

― Lisa Jewell , The Night She Disappeared

18 " There’s a heat contained within their exchange, created from the energy of desperation and loss and frustration and misguided hope, but also from the intimacy that’s built up between the two of them as everything else has peeled away from them and the thing that unites them. "

― Lisa Jewell , The Night She Disappeared

19 " Because Zach is a controller and she has to show him that she cannot and will not be controlled and that all the champagne and big, soft eyes and compliments and expensive fish in the world is not going to change that. "

― Lisa Jewell , The Night She Disappeared

20 " Men don’t know, she thinks, they don’t know how having a baby makes you protective of your skin, your body, your space. When you spend all day giving yourself to a baby in every way that it’s possible to give yourself to another human being, the last thing you want at the end of the day is a grown man wanting you to give him things too. Men don’t know how the touch of a hand against the back of your neck can feel like a request, not a gesture of love, how emotional issues become too cumbersome to deal with, how their love for you is too much sometimes, just too much. "

― Lisa Jewell , The Night She Disappeared