Missing Molly Quotes
"There’s no banter, no atmosphere. It’s just… wrong."
"Because without you, Rach, it’s all gone to pieces."
"Our little paper, the South Hackney Herald, is a relic of a bygone era."
"The boss says the paper might have to close."
"There’s only a handful of us working here and if jobs are being lost, as the part-time bookkeeper slash admin person, mine will be the first to go."
"He leans forward, moves his chair a little closer. I bend down a little, instinctively."
"The conference room—as Chris calls it—is basically a corner of the open plan office."
"The new guy. He won’t be happy. He only just started working here, barely a week before I went on leave."
"Podcasts are all the rage these days and sponsors love them."
"I’m twenty-six years old. No I’m not, I’m twenty-four, but I tell people I’m twenty-six because that’s how old Rachel Holloway is. Was."
"I tell people my mother is dead, and that my father is in Australia, with his latest wife and brand-new kids."
"There are only three people left in the world who know the real story."
"You learn to become someone else, and you learn to convince anyone and everyone of that lie."
"I am propelled into an even deeper state of panic."
"I can’t decide whether Jacob knows who I am and is connected to him somehow."
"I’m scared Jacob is trying to flush me out, and that’s what this fucking podcast is really about."
"Everything else was a bonus. But when I got pregnant with my daughter Gracie, I decided I didn’t want to serve food behind a counter for the rest of my life after all."
"That night, there were four of us from work. It was Vivian’s idea that we go out, as usual. She was always trying to meet a guy."
"At your service," she says, and turns on her heels.
"I can't stop staring at the flyer. I've never seen it before."
"We can just do it at the preschool you know, parents do that all the time."
"Happy birthday, my little princess," Vivian's arms are high and open wide.
"She’s three years old! You’re outrageous. You shouldn’t have!"
"It’s not for you, Rach, it’s for my goddaughter."
"The moment she beckoned him to come home, he went running."
"Good riddance. I’ll think of something to make it up to him."
"I would never have dared to hope I’d have a life like this, and I am desperate to hang onto it."
"That’s all I wanted to say, I wish you the best, Jacob."
"She’s pint-sized and already braver than I am."
"I’d say she wanted to speak to someone real, and she found my number, does it matter?"
"It’s the first time in my life that someone has suggested things may not have been as they seemed."
"It’s about priorities. The podcast is good, really good. It’s getting the downloads and the sponsors, which is fantastic."
"I did, I’m not afraid to admit it. It’s a public page anyway, it’s not like I broke into the Internet."
"But I’m trying to fix them and we need him. We need him to get this podcast to the next level."
"Sounds like you’re making a lot of mistakes, Rach."
"You record every single word of what I say, and you put it out there."
"Dennis wouldn’t hurt a fly. He was a gentle young man."
"I know it wasn’t my Dennis. You put that on your tape, you hear? You let the world hear all of it."
"It’s all about the signal, Rach. You have to figure out where the current begins, and where it ends. It can only go one way, just follow the trail."
"We were all in love with Hugo Hennessy. He was the ultimate catch around here. Handsome, rich, charming. He excelled at sports, captain of the soccer team."
"She was kind, and she always had the time for a nice word, a small chat on the side of the road with him."
"We heard you were in town. News travel fast around here."
"She was like my sister. So I thought, if you had any questions about the family, or —"
"It’s not even three o’clock. What are we celebrating here, boss?"
"All the major news outlets are reporting that there’s strong evidence the wrong man was arrested for the murders of the Forster family."
"But let justice prevail. That’s got to be the more important outcome here."
"You’re doing really well for yourself, Rachel, aren’t you?"
"He was obsessed with the oldest daughter Grace. She was kind, and she always had the time for a nice word, a small chat on the side of the road with him."
"I need to come up with a plan. I am shocked at the realisation that I haven’t planned for anything like this."
"My phone. I just want to make sure Vivian got home okay."
"It’s like you’re not here. If I walk into a room, you jump."
"That doesn’t count, I had too much to drink."
"It’s great. Excellent facilities. Great people."
"Don’t worry, Rachel, your secret’s safe with me."
"Please Lord. Please don’t let anything happen to me or my family. Not again. Please protect us."
"Why doesn’t anyone ever believe me when I say the truth?"
"You have to trust me, that’s all I ask. I know it’s hard."
"I am Molly Forster, and there are people looking for me. These people want to kill me because I saw—"
"It’s not the same," I say. "It’s nothing like that."
"If he comes back, I don’t want to see him, okay?"
"There’s no need to apologise. You can sleep as much you want."
"It’s not a test, and there are no right or wrong answers. It’s to help us determine what you need to get better, do you understand?"
"I don’t know, I was deep in thought and I was on autopilot I guess."
"In spite of what he said earlier, I really do want to ‘pass’ this test."
"I would never hurt our daughter and you fucking know it."
"You’ll catch a fly. That’s what my dad used to say."