Clare Mackintosh Quotes

#1. They speak to each other through the magistrate, like warring children communicating through a parent, their words are extravagantly emotive illustrated with flamboyant gestures that are wasted on the empty court room

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#2. My steps feel lighter now and I realize it's because I'm running toward something, and not away from it.

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#3. I want to fix an image of him in my head, but all I can see when I close my eyes is his body, still and lifeless in my arms. I let him go, and I will never forgive myself for that.

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#4. Gradually, without my noticing, my grief has changed shape; from a raw, jagged pain that won't be silenced to a dull, rounded ache I'm able to lock away at the back of my mind.

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#5. Five years of someone's life is too much to lose over a throwaway comment.

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#6. Such a small impact on the world, yet the very centre of my own.

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#7. Everything has changed. The instant the car slid across the wet tarmac, my whole life changed. I can see everything clearly, as though I am standing on the sidelines. I can't go on like this.

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#8. You must remember that he was a boy. That he had a mother. And that her heart is breaking.

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