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Top 25 Clare Mackintosh Quotes (2025 Update)

Clare Mackintosh Quote: “It’s reactive, not proactive. We shouldn’t be sitting back, waiting for intelligence to come to us: we should be out there looking for it.”

1. “It’s reactive, not proactive. We shouldn’t be sitting back, waiting for intelligence to come to us: we should be out there looking for it.”

— Clare Mackintosh

Clare Mackintosh Quote: “None of us knows what’s going to happen in the future, love. The only thing we can do is make our choices on the way we feel right here, right now.”

2. “None of us knows what’s going to happen in the future, love. The only thing we can do is make our choices on the way we feel right here, right now.”

— Clare Mackintosh

Clare Mackintosh Quote: “When Alexis was born, I thought I’d never have a second child. How could I, when I’d already poured my love into my first? But then I had Brianna, and then Logan, and I realized something they don’t teach you in biology... The heart stretches.”

3. “When Alexis was born, I thought I’d never have a second child. How could I, when I’d already poured my love into my first? But then I had Brianna, and then Logan, and I realized something they don’t teach you in biology... The heart stretches.”

— Clare Mackintosh

Clare Mackintosh Quote: “My steps feel lighter now and I realize it’s because I’m running toward something, and not away from it.”

4. “My steps feel lighter now and I realize it’s because I’m running toward something, and not away from it.”

— Clare Mackintosh

Clare Mackintosh Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

— Clare Mackintosh

Clare Mackintosh Quote: “Five years of someone’s life is too much to lose over a throwaway comment.”

6. “Five years of someone’s life is too much to lose over a throwaway comment.”

— Clare Mackintosh

Clare Mackintosh Quote: “They reach the quiet street where home lies just around the corner, its seductive warmth a welcome sight.”

7. “They reach the quiet street where home lies just around the corner, its seductive warmth a welcome sight.”

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Clare Mackintosh Quote: “I wonder briefly if I have become immune to physical pain: if the human body is not designed to handle both physical and emotional hurt.”

8. “I wonder briefly if I have become immune to physical pain: if the human body is not designed to handle both physical and emotional hurt.”

— Clare Mackintosh

Clare Mackintosh Quote: “Such a small impact on the world, yet the very centre of my own.”

9. “Such a small impact on the world, yet the very centre of my own.”

— Clare Mackintosh

Clare Mackintosh Quote: “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.”

10. “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.”

— Clare Mackintosh

Clare Mackintosh Quote: “Everyone has an opinion, yet the truth is that no one can really know what is right. No one can predict the future, and so all we can do is make a decision based on the facts we have, and – sometimes on what our heart tells us.”

11. “Everyone has an opinion, yet the truth is that no one can really know what is right. No one can predict the future, and so all we can do is make a decision based on the facts we have, and – sometimes on what our heart tells us.”

— Clare Mackintosh

Clare Mackintosh Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

— Clare Mackintosh

Clare Mackintosh Quote: “I don’t trust my instincts anymore – they’ve been wrong so many times before – and so the safest thing to do is to stay well away.”

13. “I don’t trust my instincts anymore – they’ve been wrong so many times before – and so the safest thing to do is to stay well away.”

— Clare Mackintosh

Clare Mackintosh Quote: “Freeze or reheat. Thinking of you. I still don’t know who it’s from. Many of the condolence cards that arrived after my parents’ deaths came with stories of the cars they’d sold over the years. Keys handed to over-confident teens and over-anxious parents. Two-seater sports cars traded for family-friendly estates. Cars to celebrate promotions, big birthdays, retirements. My parents played a part in many different stories.”

14. “Freeze or reheat. Thinking of you. I still don’t know who it’s from. Many of the condolence cards that arrived after my parents’ deaths came with stories of the cars they’d sold over the years. Keys handed to over-confident teens and over-anxious parents. Two-seater sports cars traded for family-friendly estates. Cars to celebrate promotions, big birthdays, retirements. My parents played a part in many different stories.”

— Clare Mackintosh

Clare Mackintosh Quote: “We are programmed to care long after we need to.”

15. “We are programmed to care long after we need to.”

— Clare Mackintosh

Clare Mackintosh Quote: “You must remember that he was a boy. That he had a mother. And that her heart is breaking.”

16. “You must remember that he was a boy. That he had a mother. And that her heart is breaking.”

— Clare Mackintosh

Clare Mackintosh Quote: “Life, changing with a single word. A single lie.”

17. “Life, changing with a single word. A single lie.”

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Clare Mackintosh Quote: “Variety is important. Even the finest steak becomes dull when you eat it all the time.”

18. “Variety is important. Even the finest steak becomes dull when you eat it all the time.”

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Clare Mackintosh Quote: “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.”

19. “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.”

— Clare Mackintosh

Clare Mackintosh Quote: “In a few moments, the doors will open, and the next act of Dylan’s story will begin. No matter what the judge’s ruling, Max’s and Pip’s lives will be irreversibly changed today, and Leila knows they will forever question the choices they made in the weeks leading up to the hearing. But when you stand at a crossroad you cannot see each destination, only the beginnings of the paths that will lead you there. All you can do is choose one, and walk, and hope that someone will walk with you.”

20. “In a few moments, the doors will open, and the next act of Dylan’s story will begin. No matter what the judge’s ruling, Max’s and Pip’s lives will be irreversibly changed today, and Leila knows they will forever question the choices they made in the weeks leading up to the hearing. But when you stand at a crossroad you cannot see each destination, only the beginnings of the paths that will lead you there. All you can do is choose one, and walk, and hope that someone will walk with you.”

— Clare Mackintosh

Clare Mackintosh Quote: “It’s like when two people have the flu,” Blair says. “They know how the other feels, but they’re too sick to nurse each other. They both need to get better first.”

21. “It’s like when two people have the flu,” Blair says. “They know how the other feels, but they’re too sick to nurse each other. They both need to get better first.”

— Clare Mackintosh

Clare Mackintosh Quote: “We can’t change the past... We can only change the way we feel about it, and the way it affects our future.”

22. “We can’t change the past... We can only change the way we feel about it, and the way it affects our future.”

— Clare Mackintosh

Clare Mackintosh Quote: “Pretend you’re okay, and you’ll feel okay. Before too long you really will be okay.”

23. “Pretend you’re okay, and you’ll feel okay. Before too long you really will be okay.”

— Clare Mackintosh

Clare Mackintosh Quote: “Truth slid into my mind like the answer to a crossword clue long after the paper’s been thrown away, and my mouth formed the words I didn’t want to say.”

24. “Truth slid into my mind like the answer to a crossword clue long after the paper’s been thrown away, and my mouth formed the words I didn’t want to say.”

— Clare Mackintosh

Clare Mackintosh Quote: “I let his words fall around me like music; not understanding every line but enjoying the sound they make.”

25. “I let his words fall around me like music; not understanding every line but enjoying the sound they make.”

— Clare Mackintosh

Clare Mackintosh Quote: “People liked boxes, Murray had concluded. You were ill or you were well. Mad or sane. Sarah’s problem was that she climbed in and out of a box, and people didn’t know how to deal with that.”

26. “People liked boxes, Murray had concluded. You were ill or you were well. Mad or sane. Sarah’s problem was that she climbed in and out of a box, and people didn’t know how to deal with that.”

— Clare Mackintosh

Clare Mackintosh Quote: “But when you stand at a crossroad you cannot see each destination, only the beginnings of the paths that will lead you there. All you can do is choose one, and walk, and hope that someone will walk with you.”

27. “But when you stand at a crossroad you cannot see each destination, only the beginnings of the paths that will lead you there. All you can do is choose one, and walk, and hope that someone will walk with you.”

— Clare Mackintosh

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