Julia Gregson Quotes

“From the top of the bus she could see the vast bowl of London spreading out to the horizon: splendid shops with mannequins in the window, interesting people and already a much bigger world.”

“She had a strange feeling in the pit of her stomach, like when you're swimming and you want to put your feet down on something solid, but the water's deeper than you think and there's nothing there”

“One of the the things she most liked about the city -apart from all its obvious attractions, the theatre, the galleries, the exhilarating walks by the river- was that so few people ever asked you personal questions.”

“I would rather wear honest tears than the most beautiful and elaborately faked smile.”

“In the space, the pause between this breath and the one that follows, you have made a home inside me.”

“All I know, all I can comprehend of the mathematics of a life, are the times your hand is inside my hand, and the times it is not.”

“If you give me homeI will give you adventure.It's both we can have.”

“What an utter disgrace it would be to find something truly magic and spend any time at all pretending and trying to convince yourself it is all just an unbelievably orchestrated and beautifully choreographed illusion.”

“There is more light than darkness, there has always been.”

“Some days I wake upand all I feelare the fracturesin the flesh that coversthe only meI've ever known.Some days,it's those exact fissuresthat let the lighthiding inside mepour outand coverin goldeveryonethat found enough beautyin the cracksto standclose.”