Top 380 Paula Hawkins Quotes (2026 Update)
Page 8 of 8

351. “I wonder whether we would have loved the weaker, flawed, unembellished version. I think that I would. I would have forgiven his mistakes and his failures. I have committed enough of my own.”

— Paula Hawkins

352. “He smiles – that wide, beautiful smile that used to make me melt – and I start to sob. I can’t believe it, can’t believe we are brought to this, that the greatest happiness I have ever known – my life with him – was an illusion.”

— Paula Hawkins

353. “I snap the laptop shut and jump to my feet, knocking my.”

— Paula Hawkins

354. “This tabloid story, supposedly leaked by someone in the police, about Megan’s involvement in the death of a child.”

— Paula Hawkins

355. “I didn’t want to draw attention to her resting place, but I couldn’t leave her without remembrance.”

— Paula Hawkins

356. “Like the police, he’d probably just think I’m a nutter, some weirdo who’s read about the case in the newspaper.”

— Paula Hawkins

357. “I can’t help the way I am. “You can help what you do, though.”

— Paula Hawkins

358. “The darkness gets bigger; it’s pushing at the edges of my skull, clouding my vision. I grab Evie by the hand and start to drag her inside. She protests vociferously.”

— Paula Hawkins

359. “I think perhaps you are being rather hard on yourself.”

— Paula Hawkins

360. “He captured movement, he registered nuance, he was empathetic on the page in a way he never seemed to achieve in real life.”

— Paula Hawkins

361. “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

362. “Tom said he was going to patch it up, but he didn’t, and I didn’t want to pester him about it.”

— Paula Hawkins

363. “I can see her now, in the spare room upstairs, music blaring, window open, a brush in her hand, an enormous canvas leaning against the wall. She’ll be there until midnight; Jason knows not to bother her when she’s working.”

— Paula Hawkins

364. “I’m almost at the station, just passing the Crown, when I feel a hand on my arm and I wheel around, slipping off the pavement and into the road.”

— Paula Hawkins

365. “We’re in the car park at Wilton Lake. We used to come here sometimes, to go swimming on really hot days. Today we’re just sitting side by side in Tom’s car, windows down, letting the warm breeze in. I want to lean my head back against the headrest and close my eyes and smell the pine and listen to the birds. I want to hold his hand and stay here all day.”

— Paula Hawkins

366. “What if the thing I’m looking for can never be found? What.”

— Paula Hawkins

367. “Now, I think he might be dead.”

— Paula Hawkins

368. “I can’t deny that there’s a part of me that finds the idea of meeting Kamal thrilling.”

— Paula Hawkins

369. “I know that on warm summer evenings, the occupants of this house, Jason and Jess, sometimes climb out of the large sash window to sit on the makeshift terrace on top of the kitchen-extension roof.”

— Paula Hawkins

370. “There’s an explosion of pain, white before my eyes, and I crumple to my knees.”

— Paula Hawkins

371. “Art is legacy, it is solace. It soothes, consoles, arouses. It’s work. It’s what you do all day. It’s how you work things out, how you understand the world. It’s the opportunity to start over, to shed your skin, to take revenge, to fall in love. To be good. To live long.”

— Paula Hawkins

372. “Twice a day, I am offered a view into other lives, just for a moment. There’s something comforting about the sight of strangers safe at home.”

— Paula Hawkins

373. “She has no past, no future. She exists purely in the moment. Drunk.”

— Paula Hawkins

374. “I’m well aware there is no job more important than that of raising a child, but the problem is that it isn’t valued. Not in the sense that counts to me at the moment, which is financial.”

— Paula Hawkins

375. “I’m stupidly pleased that he doesn’t like her, either; another thing we have in common, another thread to bind us.”

— Paula Hawkins

376. “He closed his eyes so that he didn’t have to watch me choke.”

— Paula Hawkins

377. “Tom’s whole life was constructed on lies – falsehoods and half-truths told to make him look better, stronger, more interesting than he was.”

— Paula Hawkins

378. “But with the mind, I think, there are no quick fixes.”

— Paula Hawkins

379. “All those plans I had – photography courses and cookery classes – when it comes down to it, they feel a bit pointless, as if I’m playing at real life instead of actually living it.”

— Paula Hawkins

380. “I can’t do this, I can’t just be a wife.”

— Paula Hawkins

381. “She wanted to chat in person and I thought it might be best. I’m sorry, OK? We just talked. We met in a crappy coffee shop in Ashbury and talked for twenty minutes – half an hour, tops. OK?”

— Paula Hawkins

382. “All those plans I had – photography courses and cookery classes – when it comes down to it, they.”

— Paula Hawkins

383. “I just had to hope that one day we would have the money, and in the meantime I had to bite back the tears that came, hot and fast, every time I saw a stranger with a bump, every time I heard someone else’s happy news.”

— Paula Hawkins

384. “Maybe that was the moment when things started to go wrong, the moment when I imagined us no longer a couple, but a family; and after that, once I had that picture in my head, just the two of us could never be enough.”

— Paula Hawkins

385. “Then I wait. Times and dates, mostly. Not dates. Days. Monday.”

— Paula Hawkins

386. “If he thinks I’m going to sit around crying over him, he’s got another think coming.”

— Paula Hawkins