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Heartsick (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell, #1) QUOTES

Heartsick (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell, #1) QUOTES

1 " She was a beautiful girl, but the lack of any spark dampened her prettiness. "

― Chelsea Cain , Heartsick (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell, #1)

2 " Gretchen Lowell was beautiful in a very grown-up way, in a sophisticated, confident way. It was more than beauty; it was the power of beauty. She radiated it. "

― Chelsea Cain , Heartsick (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell, #1)

3 " He had talked to hundreds of witnesses. And he knew that if someone felt pressured, they would try too hard, and their imagination would fill what their memory couldn't recover. "

― Chelsea Cain , Heartsick (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell, #1)

4 " Our relationship is complicated by the fact that I am emotionally retarded. "

― Chelsea Cain , Heartsick (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell, #1)

5 " Something about the way she moves through the world does not lend itself to the care of fragile objects. "

― Chelsea Cain , Heartsick (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell, #1)

6 " Whatever you think this is going to be like," she whispers, "it's going to be worse. "

― Chelsea Cain , Heartsick (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell, #1)

7 " There will be time to diet when people stopped killing one another. "

― Chelsea Cain , Heartsick (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell, #1)

8 " If Gretchen had been feeling charitable she would have let me die...I wanted to die. I was ready to die. If she had put a scalpel in my hand, I would have stabbed myself in the neck and happily bled to death right there in her basement. She didn't do me any favours by not killing me. Gretchen enjoys people's pain. And she just found a way to prolong my pain and her pleasure. Believe me, it was the cruellest thing she could have done to me. If she could have thought of something crueller she would have done it. Gretchen doesn't show people mercy. "

― Chelsea Cain , Heartsick (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell, #1)

9 " Even the most blatant assholes seemed to function in a state of grace when confronted with the brutal loss of a loved one. They moved through the world differently than other people. When they looked at you, you had the feeling that they were really seeing you. Their entire universe was just this one thing, this one event, this one loss. They seemed, for a few weeks, to have things in perspective. Then the inconsequential shit of their lives would start to seep back in. "

― Chelsea Cain , Heartsick (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell, #1)

10 " I wanted you to understand right away how committed I am to you...That you are the only one "

― Chelsea Cain , Heartsick (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell, #1)

11 " ...in that moment she realised that Archie had never told her anything, never let her see anything, that he didn't want her to know. "

― Chelsea Cain , Heartsick (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell, #1)

12 " ...in that moment Archie realised that Gretchen had never told him anything, never let him see anything that she didn't want him to know. She had always been in control. She had always been one move ahead. "

― Chelsea Cain , Heartsick (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell, #1)

13 " The digital clock that sat on the empty bookcase blinked insistently in the dim room. It was an hour and thirty-five minutes off, but Archie had never bothered to reset it, he just did the maths to calculate the time. "

― Chelsea Cain , Heartsick (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell, #1)

14 " He snorted. “Did they tell you that your vagina got you the story?” She smiled sweetly. “My vagina is my most tireless advocate. "

― Chelsea Cain , Heartsick (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell, #1)

15 " She always felt a little uneasy around women who were more sophisticated than she was. "

― Chelsea Cain , Heartsick (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell, #1)

16 " He said that I was his person,” she told him. “He said that we all have people in the world we belong to. Connect with. And that I was his. He said that there was no denying it. "

― Chelsea Cain , Heartsick (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell, #1)

17 " Derek cleared his throat. “Right. Sorry.” He "

― Chelsea Cain , Heartsick (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell, #1)

18 " They looked at him now with a mixture of affection and anxiety. Archie felt bad for them. He always felt bad for people who knew what he had been through. It made them feel awkward. He knew it was up to him to make them comfortable, so they could work effectively for him, no distractions, no pity. "

― Chelsea Cain , Heartsick (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell, #1)