The Family Remains
Lisa Jewell
Top 10 Best Quotes
“And when you hate someone, it leaves deeper scars on your psyche than loving someone ever can.”
“The things that happened behind the closed door of that house were appalling, and like a coward, I did a flit. I left them to it.”
“you. We didn’t have sex for the last ten days of our holiday, you said you thought you’d married a fucking stranger, and now you’re acting like none of that ever happened. You’re … you’re … offering me wine and … and stirring things. I just don’t understand. I don’t understand what’s happening”
“want to get away from these two, now. Their energy is so toxic, I’m virtually choking on it. And I’ve had enough of this guy continuously banging on my phone screen with his big meaty finger.”
“the police can somehow find out that Henry was responsible for killing Birdie Dunlop-Evers with a single blow to the head a full twenty-six years after the crime was committed, then what else are they capable of uncovering? I am home, she thinks, I am in clean pyjamas in a big soft bed in a luxury apartment block in central London. But I will never ever feel safe, not until I know that the French police are not still looking for me.”
“the one that didn’t involve tiptoeing around a middle-aged man’s fragile masculinity, bringing his flaccid penis back to life like a paramedic every night.”
“smooth jawline, softly sculpted lips. That was the face I had been chasing my whole life; with every visit to every cosmetic surgeon, with every beauty treatment, that was what I’d been hoping to recreate. But Phin was not that person any more. Phin has not remained, like me, a creepy boy-child, just on the cusp of curdling, he has embraced his adulthood, his manhood,”
“see what is in his eyes: the truth. He knows that Justin’s suicide note is a fiction. He knows that my tears are theatrical. He knows that I killed Birdie. And he knows that I know he knows.”
“never, ever told you I was classy. Not ever. I fucked you on our first date. What on earth made you think I was classy?”
“mean, Jesus Christ, when you saw me in the pharmacy that first time, I was a total mess. I had a hangover, and I was waiting for the morning-after pill, for God’s sake.”
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