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The Girl Before
J.P. Delaney
Top 10 Best Quotes
“One of the strange things about grief is the way it ambushes you when you least expect it.”
“Never apologise for someone you love, he says quietly. It makes you look like a prick.”
“Please make a list of every possession you consider essential to your life. I take a deep breath and pick up my pen.”
“Sometimes it's as if I can shrink away to nothing. Sometimes I feel as pure and perfect as a ghost. The hunger, the headaches, the dizziness—these are the only things that are real.”
“People like to talk about clean slates. But the only truly clean slate is a new one. The rest are gray from whatever’s been written on them before.”
“But one day, when Toby is old enough, I will take down a shoe box from a shelf where it is kept, and I will tell him again the story of his sister, Isabel Margaret Cavendish, the girl who came before.”
“There was a mountain of grief to be climbed, and no amount of talk would help me up it.”
“I have no time for people who don’t strive to better themselves.”
“I realize something. I haven't had a single flashback or panic attack since I stepped inside the house. It's so cut off from the outside world, so cocooned, I feel utterly safe. A line from my favorite movie floats into my head. The quietness and the proud look of it. Nothing very bad could happen to you there.”
“I feel a thrill of excitement at this first tiny glimpse of self-revelation, of intimacy.”
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