The Woman In Cabin 10 Quotes
"The first inkling that something was wrong was waking in darkness to find the cat pawing at my face."
"I sat up, my heart suddenly thumping, and Delilah leaped onto my bed with a glad little chirrup."
"He had a hoodie on, and a bandanna around his nose and mouth, and everything else was in shadow. Except for his hands."
"Those gloves said, 'I know what I’m doing.' They said, 'I’ve come prepared.' They said, 'I might be after more than your money.'"
"Then I saw something in the man’s hands. My handbag—my new Burberry handbag."
"I wasn’t even sure what had happened. Had Judah and I broken up? Had I dumped him?"
"I love ports. I love the smell of tar and sea air, and the scream of the gulls."
"If you can outdrink your interviewee, you’re on your way to your first scoop."
"A man may never bathe in the same lake twice."
"You only live once. Isn’t that what they say?"
"Beet-pickled razor clam, with a bison grass foam and air-dried samphire shards."
"I think that was for Anne—you know, Richard’s wife? She’s not well."
"She must think very highly of you to send you on a trip like this. Quite the coup, I would have thought."
"I don’t care, you can’t say that anymore, Ben."
"There’s no reason, on paper at least, why I need these pills to get through life."
"The depression I fell into after university wasn’t about exams and self-worth, it was something stranger, more chemical, something that no talking cure was going to fix."
"You get less for murder, I’m led to believe!"
"What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, right?"
"Stick to the facts—be clear and unemotional."
"There was literally no way of calling for help."
"I’m not good with enclosed spaces. I’m kind of claustrophobic."
"It seemed like I had all the pieces of the puzzle in front of me, that I must be able to put them together if I only tried hard enough."
"No one could harm me in front of a room full of witnesses."
"No one was getting through that door without a battering ram."
"I thought of Trondheim, and Judah, and the police."
"They didn’t need to poison me. Why would they?"
"Because I knew what it was like to be you! I know—I know what it’s like to wake up in the night, afraid for your life."
"If he was in love with you he wouldn’t be beating you up and forcing you to dress up as his dead wife."
"You think it’s coincidence he fell in love with someone who bears a startling resemblance to Anne? He planned this from the beginning. You’re just a means to an end."
"All the money, without the controlling wife—I think he had that carrot waved in front of his nose by Anne’s illness, and suddenly found he liked the idea: a future without Anne, but with the money."
"It’s terrifying how long the hours can feel when you have no clock, no means of telling the time, and no way of knowing if anyone will come for you."
"I’m not sure if I did sleep. I dozed, I guess. Hours passed, or seemed to."
"And then I realized. The quiet. That was what had woken me. The engine had stopped."
"I had been afraid before. I’d been scared half out of my wits. But I had never despaired, and it was despair that I was feeling now."
"I choose not to think about these images," I muttered. "I choose to think about..."
"I loved that book as a kid," she said. "My mum used to call me Tigger, you are, no matter how hard you fall, you always bounce back."