“Imagine if we had no secrets, no respite from the truth. What if everything was laid bare the moment we introduced ourselves?”
Catherine Doyle“You can’t avoid the inevitability of death. It comes at you one way or another, and takes us all to the same place in the end. To apologize for it is to apologize for the sun shining or the rain falling. It is what it is.”
Catherine Doyle“She pulled me into a hug and I squeezed her so tight we lost our breaths."I love you, Soph." She pulled back from me, her eyes wide and searching. "I'll see you really soon.""I know," I said, forcing my smile. "And I love you too."She tapped my nose and dropped her voice to a conspiratorial whisper."We're the real love story here, you know that, don't you?"I wiped a tear from my cheek. "I know that, Mil. I've always known that.”
Catherine Doyle, Mafiosa“People who make time for the sadness in your life, not just the joy, are worth keeping around.”
Catherine Doyle, Mafiosa“I would go into the darkness with you, but you won't come into the light with me.”
Catherine Doyle, Mafiosa“Imagine if we had no secrets, no respite from the truth. What if everything was laid bare the moment we introduced ourselves?”
Catherine Doyle, Vendetta“It was an uncomfortable feeling, staring into the darkest moments of someone’s soul without them knowing.”
Catherine Doyle, Vendetta“And you’re kind of like a snowflake.’Oh, Jesus Christ.He masked his fleeting surprise with a quirked eyebrow. ‘Excuse me?’‘Nothing,’ I said quickly. ‘I didn’t say anything.’‘No, no,’ he said, rounding on me so his face was too close, his eyes too searing, his smile too irritating. ‘I’m a snowflake, am I?”
Catherine Doyle, Inferno“I guess no one can be painted with just one brush. There is light and shade in all of us, pain and hardship, and some of us rise from it while others are darkened by it.”
Catherine Doyle, Inferno“There is beauty everywhere; even in the dark, there is light, and that is the rarest kind of all.”
Catherine Doyle, Vendetta“Do you ever take a holiday? Like, do any of you just wake up and think ‘Today feels like a pyjama day.’? or is it always, ‘Today is a good day for murdering and stalking.’?”
Catherine Doyle, Inferno