The Lies We Told Quotes
"Everything in that moment became absolutely clear."
"Another hour passed before she gave up on sleep."
"Women are nothing to you, are we, Luke?"
"Where are you, where the bloody hell are you, Luke?"
"It wasn’t until she was in the shower that she remembered the importance of the day’s date."
"I didn’t want to be a career woman, didn’t need a big house and lots of money."
"I knew that what I wanted would bring me all the happiness I’d need."
"She was healthy and she was beautiful and she was ours, and that’s all that mattered."
"The magazine publishers where they both worked was in the centre of Soho."
"You wanted to do it. And we have to live with that now."
"Despite everything, despite all that he’d done, she couldn’t do it, not to Luke, and especially not to his parents."
"Why was it that bad things seemed to happen to those who least deserved it?"
"She realized she also felt obscurely guilty, as though she’d let them down somehow."
"You were so enthralled by him, by his whole family... But you are amazing. You are."
"The realization seeped into her like cold water."
"It was as if she was deliberately torturing me."
"I admit, in that one brief moment I wanted to kill her."
"It’s just so fucking tragic the way things turned out. They don’t deserve it, they really don’t."
"No, you stay, pal, I need to return a work call anyway."
"It was just, when she went, it was … a bloody awful time, you know?"
"You selling stuff? Mum says she don’t want any."
"I don't want to talk about all that, to be honest."
"I hate you and Daddy and Toby. I don’t want to live here anyway!"
"It’s where children go when they don’t have a mummy or daddy to look after them any more."
"We never stopped trying to reach her, to make her feel loved and wanted."
"I knew my daughter. I knew when she was up to something."
"I knew Hannah – I knew she wasn’t this girl, the sort of ordinary teenager I’d long given up wishing she’d become. This was Hannah pretending to be someone else entirely."
"‘Doing my head in as usual,’ Hannah sighed. ‘I wish my mum and dad were like yours. They sound so great, you’re so lucky.’"
"We were supposed to forget all about it, pretend we’d played no part in the whole horrible tragedy."
"I thought I had it all, that my dreams had come true at last. Soon it felt as though we truly were just an ordinary, natural family."
"I try my hardest not to dwell on the reasons why any more. I last saw Hannah – I no longer refer to her as my daughter – over twenty years ago. I never want to see her face again."
"‘I just want them to love me – my real family, I mean. I want to know them, to understand where I come from.’ Her eyes brimmed with tears again. ‘Ever since I found out about my real mother and father, I’ve felt so confused.’"
"‘You actually bought that, didn’t you?’ She laughed loudly, a harsh, ugly sound. ‘I always knew you were a fucking idiot, Beth,’ she went on, ‘but I didn’t know you were quite this retarded.’"
What I actually want to do is to fuck them up," she said quietly. "And not just the Lawsons – all of you.
"You all lied to me. All of you. You are all responsible, and you’re not going to get away with it. None of you."
"She wouldn’t have left me. She wouldn’t. I was all she had."
"What greater punishment could there be than allowing me to go on living?"
No, I don’t believe you. My mother was very unhappy," I said firmly, "she was ill, she died by throwing herself into the sea.
"I don’t think it’ll stop. I don’t think it’ll ever stop, Clara."
"I thought I’d still be able to knock her out or something, so I thought, OK, I’ll go along with it, see if she really does know anything about Emily."
"I don’t know what to say. How are my mum and dad? This must have really rattled them."
"You’re lying. There would have been a body. There would have!"
"I have carried the guilt for decades for what I did to Nadia’s grieving family."
"I don’t know, I don’t think so … I don’t know!"
"Like you said, Hannah doesn’t know me; she doesn’t know what I look like."