A Slow Fire Burning
Paula Hawkins
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Everything is material. And comedy equals tragedy plus time. Isn’t that how it goes?”
“Miriam had lost the talent for friendship when she was young, and once gone, it was a difficult thing to recover. Like loneliness, the absence of friendship was self-perpetuating: the harder you tried to make people like you, the less likely they were to do so; most people recognized right away that something was off, and they shied away.”
“Angela was a vandal when it came to books: a cracker of spines, a dog-earer of pages, a scribbler in margins.”
“She glimpsed, opening up in front of her, the possibility of a quite different life from the one she currently led, a far richer (in the cultural sense), more peopled life.”
“He captured movement, he registered nuance, he was empathetic on the page in a way he never seemed to achieve in real life.”
“When they’re born,” she said, her hand resting on the door handle, “you hold them, and you imagine a glorious, golden future. Not money or success or fame or anything like that, but happiness. Such happiness! You’d see the world burn if only it meant they would be happy.”
“There, in her imagination, was everything Irene feared—seeing herself reduced to a cliché of old age, a person without agency, without hope or future or intention, sitting by herself in a comfortable chair with a blanket over her knees, in the waiting room of death.”
“The truth was that you felt a certain way inside, and while the people who had known you your whole life would probably see you that way, the number of new people who could appreciate you as that person, that inside person, rather than just a collection of the frailties of age, was limited.”
“That we were all so happy. It seems unimaginable. All that happiness, wrecked.”
“So uneventful, she remembered almost nothing of it except for an oddly sepia-toned mental image of a terraced house on a narrow street, the sensation of dry, scratchy lawn beneath her feet in summer. Her memory seemed only to bloom into full color from around the age of nine,”
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Book Keywords:
loss-of-family, loss, loss-of-a-child, happiness
