Sweet Little Lies
Caz Frear
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Problem is, while the lie may be sweet as it falls from your lips, the feeling in your gut is always putridly sour. And almost always bang-on.”
“There’s a rising worry in his eyes. ‘No.”
“The most devastating punishments aren’t always the legal ones.”
“I should want to spit at him. Bounce his head off the wall. Tear at his face. But I don't feel angry, I feel nothing. Hollow and weightless. I dig my nails into the palms of my hands just to feel the sensation.”
“I was eight years old, podgy, with a head full of greasy curls and a mouth full of wobbly teeth, and I was almost certainly wearing my Pokémon T-shirt.”
“who I think he is? I can’t ignore the fact I’ve spent most of my life, not exactly sure in the belief, but certainly toying with – then blocking out – the idea that Dad might have killed Maryanne Doyle in 1998. Now that’s been proved impossible, can I trust my own instincts any more than I mistrust him?”
“This isn’t London, Cat. You might be able to run across Piccadilly Circus, naked as the day you were born and no one’d pay a blind bit of notice, but around here, if your washing’s out too long, folk start to speculate. Secrets”
“So I either glide in and wet-nurse him, if that's what the interview needs, or I burst in like a madwoman and tear his nuts off with my teeth?”
“I’m not following, Detective.’ I’m not sure Parnell is either. ‘Well, it’s just that if Alice was conscious about money, and if money was tight, I don’t understand why a fit, able woman”
“I speculate plenty, especially after white wine.”
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