It’s impossible to resist the kindness of strangers. Someone who looks at you, who doesn’t know you, who tells you it’s OK, whatever you did, whatever you’ve done: you suffered, you hurt, you deserve forgiveness.

Paula Hawkins

Let’s be honest: women are still only really valued for two things—their looks and their role as mothers.

Paula Hawkins

Beautiful sunshine, cloudless skies, no one to play with, nothing to do. Living like this, the way I’m living at the moment, is harder in the summer when there is so much daylight, so little cover of darkness.

Paula Hawkins

I have to find a way of making myself happy, I have to stop looking for happiness elsewhere. It’s true.

Paula Hawkins

Parents don't care anything but their children. They are the centre of the universe; they are all that really counts. Nobody else is important, no one else's suffering or joy matters, none of it is real

Paula Hawkins

There’s nothing so painful, so corrosive, as suspicion.

Paula Hawkins

Life and light will not let me be.

Paula Hawkins

It’s as if people can see the damage written all over me, can see it in my face, the way I hold myself, the way I move.

Paula Hawkins

I have never understood how people can blithely disregard the damage they do by following their hearts.

Paula Hawkins

He loves me so much, it makes me ache. I don’t know how he does it. I would drive me mad.

Paula Hawkins

I have lost control over everything, even the places in my head.

Paula Hawkins

Wait for a man to come home and love you. Either that or look around for something to distract you.

Paula Hawkins