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Paula Hawkins Quotes

Total quotes: 36
“There will be no closure, no resolution. I lie awake thinking about it and I ache. There can be no greater agony, nothing can be more painful than the not knowing, which will never end.”
— Paula Hawkins, The Girl On The Train
Tagged: Closure, resolution, Pain, Questions
“I can’t do this, I can’t just be a wife. I don’t understand how anyone does it—there is literally nothing to do but wait. Wait for a man to come home and love you. Either that or look around for something to distract you.”
— Paula Hawkins, The Girl On The Train
Tagged: Waiting, Patience, Marriage, wives
“What I'm interested in is the point at which people do break and treat each other awfully.”
— Paula Hawkins, Interview with Paula Hawkins
Tagged: Breaking Points, Is This Intimacy?
“I have never understood how people can blithely disregard the damage they do by following their hearts.”
— Paula Hawkins, The Girl On The Train
Tagged: Hearts, Damage, careless
“There’s something comforting about the sight of strangers safe at home.”
— Paula Hawkins, The Girl On The Train
Tagged: Comfort, Strangers, Safe
“People you have a history with, they won’t let you go, and as hard as you might try, you can’t disentangle yourself, can’t set yourself free. Maybe after a while you just stop trying.”
— Paula Hawkins, The Girl On The Train
Tagged: History, Escape, humanity
“Who was it said that following your heart is a good thing? It is pure egotism, a selfishness to conquer all.”
— Paula Hawkins, The Girl On The Train
Tagged: Hearts, Ego, Selfish
“How did I find myself here? I wonder where it started, my decline; I wonder at what point I could have halted it. Where did I take the wrong turn?”
— Paula Hawkins, The Girl On The Train
Tagged: depressed, Suffering, Questions
“The sense of shame I feel about an incident is proportionate not just to the gravity of the situation, but also to the number of people who witnessed it.”
— Paula Hawkins, The Girl On The Train
Tagged: Shame, Embarrassment, witnesses
“A familiar ache fills my chest. I have felt this way before. On a larger scale, to a more intense degree, of course, but I remember the quality of the pain. You don’t forget it.”
— Paula Hawkins, The Girl On The Train
Tagged: Pain, Memories, Suffering
“I did become sadder, and sadness gets boring after a while, for the sad person and for everyone around them.”
— Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train: A Novel
Tagged: Depression, Sorrow
“And I’ve just got to let myself feel the pain, because if I don’t, if I keep numbing it, it’ll never really go away.”
— Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train: A Novel
Tagged: Pain, Numb, Life
“He’s a master at it, making me feel as though everything is my fault, making me feel worthless.”
— Paula Hawkins, The Girl On The Train
Tagged: Worthless, depressed, Dating
“Sometimes, I don’t want to go anywhere, I think I’ll be happy if I never have to set foot outside the house again.”
— Paula Hawkins, The Girl On The Train
Tagged: indoors, hermit, homebody
“Nobody warned me it would break us. But it did. Or rather, it broke me, and then I broke us.”
— Paula Hawkins, The Girl On The Train
Tagged: broken, Break Up, damaged
“When I close my eyes, my head is filled with images of past and future lives, the things I dreamed I wanted, the things I had and threw away.”
— Paula Hawkins, The Girl On The Train
Tagged: Past, Future, Dreams, Regrets
“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.”
— Paula Hawkins, The Girl On The Train
Tagged: responsible, Guilt, removed
“Sometimes I feel like seeing if I can track down anybody from the old days, but then I think, what would I talk to them about now?”
— Paula Hawkins, The Girl On The Train
Tagged: old friends, Friends, Communication
“I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough for that.”
— Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train: A Novel
Tagged: Depression, self-harm, Bravery
“The holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mold yourself through the gaps.”
— Paula Hawkins, The Girl On The Train
Tagged: Scars, Pain, Moving On
“I don’t know where that strength went, I don’t remember losing it. I think that over time it got chipped away, bit by bit, by life, by the living of it.”
— Paula Hawkins, The Girl On The Train
Tagged: strength, Life, Pain
“I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough for that.”
— Paula Hawkins, The Girl On The Train
Tagged: Pain, coward, self-harm
“Let’s be honest: women are still only really valued for two things—their looks and their role as mothers.”
— Paula Hawkins, The Girl On The Train
Tagged: Women, Value, mothers, beauty
“Sometimes I catch myself trying to remember the last time I had meaningful physical contact with another person, just a hug or a heartfelt squeeze of my hand, and my heart twitches.”
— Paula Hawkins, The Girl On The Train
Tagged: hugs, Pain, Alone
“I don’t believe in soul mates, but there’s an understanding between us that I just haven’t felt before, or at least, not for a long time. It comes from shared experience, from knowing how it feels to be broken.”
— Paula Hawkins, The Girl On The Train
Tagged: soulmate, Understanding, broken
“I might never have the courage to say the words out loud, I might lose them altogether, they might stick in my throat and choke me in my sleep.”
— Paula Hawkins, The Girl On The Train
Tagged: Courage, Words, Speaking
“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.”
— Paula Hawkins, The Girl On The Train
Tagged: broken, Accidents, Fixing
“I feel as though we're having fight already, even though the fight's only in my imagination. And in my head, thoughts go round and round and round. And I feel like I'm suffocating.”
— Paula Hawkins, The Girl On The Train
Tagged: Fighting, Imagination, Head, suffocating
“I am no longer desirable, I’m off-putting in some way. It’s not just that I’ve put on weight, or that my face is puffy from the drinking and the lack of sleep; 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, The Girl On The Train
Tagged: unattractive, Alcoholic, damaged
“I’m playing at real life instead of actually living it.”
— Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train: A Novel
Tagged: Life, Depression, Acting, Living
“There is a pile of clothing on the side of the train tracks.”
— Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train: A Novel
Tagged: first lines of books
“I have lost control over everything, even the places in my head.”
— Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train: A Novel
Tagged: Control, Insanity, Thoughts
“I have lost control over everything, even the places in my head.”
— Paula Hawkins, The Girl On The Train
Tagged: Control, insane, Head
“I’m not normal.”
— Paula Hawkins, The Girl On The Train
Tagged: normal, Personality, unique
“No matter how much I love him, it won't be enough.”
— Paula Hawkins, The Girl On The Train
Tagged: Love, Dating, inadequate
“I have lost control over everything, even the places in my head.”
— Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train: A Novel
Tagged: Control, Depression, Life
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