Telling Tales Quotes
"There have been ten years of storms, of hailstones like bullets blown against her windows and trees ripped from the earth by their roots."
"Above the rumble of the wind there came another sound – a car engine; headlights swept onto the square, briefly lighting up the church gate, where dead leaves were blown into a drift."
"The room was at the top of a neat Georgian house, built of red brick and red tile."
"The wind was so strong that she had to force out each breath in a series of pants, much as she would later be taught to do during labour before it became time to push."
"I’ve always thought of suicide as a very selfish act. It’s the people left behind who suffer."
"The only way she could make sense of her own life was to turn it into a story."
"She was desperate, really, for his approval."
"The fury which had overcome him when he’d seen Winter, coming towards him with the chalice, still roared around his head."
"I always found that hard to believe. It was so sad that there were no relatives to help you celebrate your wedding."
"This was all he had ever dreamt of. This house. This family."
"Emma had married him because she had a romantic notion about the sea. And him."
"There are rooms in the old part of the chapel which had televisions, a sound system, a computer, and because the piano was in an extension separated from the rest of the house by thick walls, the sound of the playing was barely audible from those."
"She was wearing a thin, strappy top, but somehow managed to look neither stuffy nor respectable."
"Then the door opened and Keith Mantel was standing there. He was nearly twice Jeanie’s age but even Emma could understand the attraction."
"Jeanie fought back with the only weapon she had – her music."
"It’s hard to forget," she said. "Now, with all that’s going on."
"Don’t you know? Really, are you so thick that you never realized?"
"The funeral had been arranged by the prison chaplain, a young woman so short it had been hard not to think of her as a child."
"They’d never survive without his fundraising."
"Aye, well. Maybe I’ve learned a bit of sense in my old age."
"I went to pieces after you died. You know what I’m like. No good without you. Things’ll be different now."
"‘He was behaving oddly,’ James said. ‘He was drunk but there was more to it than that. He’d always come across as intense about his work, pretty self-obsessed, but last night he seemed completely absorbed by some problem of his own.’"
"I’m sorry to make you go through it again, but it’s the details which can help sometimes. Was there something in the hedge which caught your eye?"
"I've never seen a case handled like this one."
"If you don’t have any evidence, or can’t provide an alibi, you’re wasting your time."
"Sometimes you get a witness who saw him early that morning."
"I knew she could be moody, unpredictable, but that day she lost it completely."
"She was different from the other girls in the village."
"If I’d had her on my side things might have been different. I mean really different."
"You don’t understand. It wasn’t just the name. I didn’t want to be Marty Shaw’s son, associated with backhanders and bribes."
"The music had started. Not ‘The Wedding March.’ They’d decided against that. ‘The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba.’"
"This is who I am, he told himself. A kind man who cares for his family. Perhaps even a good man. There is no deception here."
"Don’t we all do that? Find excuses, justifications?"
"He loves his job. He doesn’t even mind being separated from his wife and kid. Not really. At least he gets a good night’s sleep and a break from the mucky nappies."
"It’s painful. But this place is all we have of Christopher now."
"Thank you for this afternoon. For lunch. For looking after us so well."
"Let me have Matthew for an evening. So you can spend some time on your own together."
"Don’t worry, pet. They don’t mean any of it. All that positive talk."
"Pride was a terrible thing, Vera thought. It had always let her down."
"I wasn’t expecting it. He seemed to be holding it together."
"I thought then that he was incapable of deception."
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