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Paula Hawkins

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    Paula Hawkins

    But the thing people don’t seem to realize is that I don’t want to not feel like this. How can I not feel like this? My sadness feels right. It … weighs the right amount, crushes me just enough.

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    Paula Hawkins

    Cathy's a nice person, in a forceful sort of way. She makes you notice her niceness.

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    Paula Hawkins

    Everything she has is secondhand. I want to know how that makes her feel. I want to call her back and ask her, What does it feel like, Anna, to live in my house, surrounded by the furniture I bought, to sleep in the bed that I shared with him for years, to feed your child at the kitchen table he fucked me on?

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    Paula Hawkins

    Every time I think I'm about to seize the moment, it drifts back into the shadows, just beyond my reach.

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    Paula Hawkins

    For some reason, I am certain that there is something I'm missing, something vital. Perhaps this is just more self-deception, yet another attempt to prove to myself that I'm not worthless.

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    Paula Hawkins

    I don't remember things. I black out and I can't remember where I've been or what I've done. Sometimes I wonder if I've done or said terrible things, and I can't remember. And if...if someone tells me something I've done, it doesn't even feel like me. it doesn't feel like it was me who was doing that thing. And it's so hard to feel responsible for something you don't remember. So I never feel bad enough. i feel bad, but the thing that i've done --it's removed from me. It's like it doesn't belong to me.

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    Paula Hawkins

    I miss him every day. More than anyone, I think. He’s the big hole in my life, in the middle of my soul. Or maybe he was just the beginning of it. I don’t know. I don’t even know whether all this is really about Ben, or whether it’s about everything that happened after that, and everything that’s happened since. All I know is, one minute I’m ticking along fine and life is sweet and I want for nothing, and the next I can’t wait to get away, I’m all over the place, slipping and sliding again.

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    Paula Hawkins

    I'm well aware that there is no job more important than that of raising a child, but the problem is that it isn't valued.

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    Paula Hawkins

    I sit there on the floor with the picture in front of me and think about how things get broken all the time by accident, and how sometimes you just don't get round to getting them fixed.

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    Paula Hawkins

    I wake abruptly, my breath jagged and heart racing, my mouth stale, and I know immediately that's it. I'm awake. The more I want to be oblivious, the less I can be. Life and light will not let me be.

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    Paula Hawkins

    I want to drag knives over my skin, just so that I can feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough to do that.

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    Paula Hawkins

    I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough for that

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    Paula Hawkins

    Louise's grief was like the river: constant and ever-changing. It rippled, flooded, ebbed and flowed, some days cold and dark and deep, some days swift and blinding.

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    Paula Hawkins

    Louises Trauer war wie der Fluss: konstant und doch nie gleich. Sie konnte Wellen schlagen oder alles überschwemmen, vorübergehend abebben oder dahinströmen, an manchen Tagen kalt und dunkel und tief sein, an anderen reißend und blendend.

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    Paula Hawkins

    She felt it when she woke, not a presence but an absence.

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    Paula Hawkins

    She must be very secure in herself, I suppose, in them, for it not to bother her, to walk where another woman has walked before.

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    Paula Hawkins

    She's cuckoo, laying her egg in my nest.

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    Paula Hawkins

    So who do I want to be tomorrow?

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    Paula Hawkins

    That's my fault, of course, because I behaved stupidly, like a child, because I didn't like feeling rejected. I need to learn to lose a little better.

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    Paula Hawkins

    The holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mold yourself through the gaps.

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    Paula Hawkins

    There can be no greater agony, nothing can be more painful than the not knowing, which will never end.

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    Paula Hawkins

    To have my hopes raised and dashed again, it's like cold steel twisting in my gut.

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    Paula Hawkins

    We tell our stories differently, don't we, you and I?

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    Paula Hawkins

    Who's to say that once I run, I'll find that isn't enough? Who's to say I won't end up feeling exactly the way I do right now-not safe, but stifled? Maybe I'll want to run again, and again, and eventually I'll end up back on those old tracks, because there's nowhere left to go. Maybe. Maybe not. You have to take the risk, don't you

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    Paula Hawkins

    You take care of yourself, Rachel," she said, and there was something about the way she said it that made it feel like a warning. We are tied together, forever bound by the stories we told.