The Girl on the Train
Paula Hawkins
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Hollowness: that I understand. I'm starting to believe that there isn't anything you can do to fix it. That's what I've taken from the therapy sessions: the holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mold yourself through the gaps”
“I have never understood how people can blithely disregard the damage they do by following their hearts.”
“There’s something comforting about the sight of strangers safe at home.”
“I have lost control over everything, even the places in my head.”
“it’s possible to miss what you’ve never had, to mourn for it.”
“The holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mould yourself through the gaps.”
“Life is not a paragraph, and death is no parenthesis. (This is a reference to an E.E. Cummings poem within the author's work)”
“When did you become so weak?” I don’t know. I don’t know where that strength went, I don’t remember losing it. I think that over time it got chipped away, bit by bit, by life, by the living of it.”
“There’s nothing so painful, so corrosive, as suspicion.”
“I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough for that”
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Book Keywords:
life-discovery, hardship, self, life-lessons, answers-to-despair, learning, lessons, brokenness, hopeless, recovery, control, life, hollowness, hurt, self-doubt, experience, feelings, finding-hope, shame, escape
