Top 380 Paula Hawkins Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “He loves me so much it makes me ache.”

— Paula Hawkins

352. “For the first five years I knew him, I was never Rachel, always Rach.”

— Paula Hawkins

353. “I apologized without being sure what I was apologizing for.”

— Paula Hawkins

354. “I see them as others do not; even their owners probably don’t see them from this perspective.”

— Paula Hawkins

355. “I’ll find something, here or elsewhere, I know I will.”

— Paula Hawkins

356. “No one warned you about that when you were younger, no one told you how slow you would become, and how bored you would be by your slowness.”

— Paula Hawkins

357. “I realize that perhaps, after all, she isn’t so different from me. She’s isolated and lonely too.”

— Paula Hawkins

358. “It must take the most incredible self-control, that stillness, that passivity; it must be exhausting.”

— Paula Hawkins

359. “And Jess just goes with Jason, and it goes with her. It fits her, pretty and carefree as she is. They’re a match, they’re a set.”

— Paula Hawkins

360. “And this time” – he glances up at me – “I promise I’ll make sure she won’t bother us anymore.” Anna’s.”

— Paula Hawkins

361. “It comes from shared experience, from knowing how it feels to be broken. Hollowness: that I understand.”

— Paula Hawkins

362. “It’s not a photo I’ve seen before.”

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363. “Angela was a vandal when it came to books: a cracker of spines, a dog-earer of pages, a scribbler in margins.”

— Paula Hawkins

364. “I didn’t even get upset. I was just astounded. And when I brought it up with Tom – calmly, matter-of-factly – he was just as baffled as I was.”

— Paula Hawkins

365. “He wanted me to talk afterwards, about what happened.”

— Paula Hawkins

366. “You know you can’t believe half the stuff they print in the newspapers.”

— Paula Hawkins

367. “I half ran back to the car, feeling needlessly afraid. I was thinking of the violence of my last meeting with Scott, of the way he was at the end – wild and paranoiac, on the edge of madness. There’ll be no peace for him now. How can there be? I think about that, and the way he used to be – the way they used to be, the way I imagined them to be – and I feel bereft. I feel their loss, too.”

— Paula Hawkins

368. “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

369. “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

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

— Paula Hawkins

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

— Paula Hawkins

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

— Paula Hawkins

373. “Upstairs, later. I’ve had too much to drink, I can’t see the computer screen properly, everything doubles, trebles. I can read if I hold my hand over one eye. It gives me a headache. Cathy is home, she called out to me and I told her I was in bed, unwell. She knows that I’m drinking.”

— Paula Hawkins

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

— Paula Hawkins

375. “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

376. “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

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

— Paula Hawkins

378. “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

379. “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

380. “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

381. “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

382. “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

383. “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

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

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385. “Now, I think he might be dead.”

— Paula Hawkins