Before I Go To Sleep Quotes
"I feel like I can't breathe, and not just because of the pollution. The air's thinner at the top of the ladder and I find myself clinging to it, terrified I might fall."
"After he fled the lobby I searched the ground floor of the hotel for him, fuelled by anger and indignation."
"I can’t believe she’s going for the marketing director job. She’s got no chance."
"I poured myself into my work instead. Sometimes I’d stay late because I couldn’t bear the thought of going home."
"The moment the coffin turns into the aisle I collapse against Alex."
"I’m not the person I was. I don’t think you are either. We’ve both changed. No one’s to blame."
"They shared the same scathing sense of humour, a similar background and the same moral code."
"Well, he does, Jim’s track record more than speaks for itself, but they’re … acquaintances, if not exactly friends."
"Biggest regret of his life that was, missing so much of his son’s childhood."
"But something is very much amiss and Steve seems to be the only one who’s noticed it."
"Lightning ripped through the black sky like scissors tearing through cloth."
"The power of the sea, it’s beautiful and terrifying, all at the same time."
"You’re not supposed to touch sleepwalkers, are you?"
"I thought I was done, that there were no more souls to save."
"What I didn’t expect was for it to be so terribly distressing."
"I’ve never cried at work, not in forty-six years."
"I forced myself to smile brightly at a junior nurse as she washed her hands."
"When I talked to my grandson about the accident and asked him if he’d like to see Anna he said no. He didn’t want to see her, he wanted her dead."
"The invisible woman. No cape or superpowers required."
"Imagine my surprise when she told me that not only was Anna fully recovered but she’d also moved to the Isle of Rum to take a job at the island’s only hotel."
"I DIDN’T KILL ANYONE. IT WAS AN ACCIDENT. IT WASN’T MY FAULT!"
"Old people aren’t scary. They’re weak and doddery and a bit boring, always going on about what life was like in their day."
"I only ever wanted to end people’s suffering, dear Katie."
"I used to look up to her, you know, for how restrained she was, how calm and unemotional."
"It’s over. It’s done. What matters now is us, learning from this, putting it behind us and getting on with our lives."
"Shall I bring you your medicine, Mum? It’ll help you to sleep."