Let’s be honest: women are still only really valued for two things—their looks and their role as mothers.
Paula Hawkins – The Girl on the Train
Women’s Undervalued Roles
W
The Cost of Passion
T
I have never understood how people can blithely disregard the damage they do by following their hearts.
Paula Hawkins – The Girl on the Train
Life Beyond Sentences
L
Life is not a paragraph, and death is no parenthesis.
Paula Hawkins – The Girl on the Train
Pretending to Live
P
I’m playing at real life instead of actually living it.
Paula Hawkins – The Girl on the Train
Mourning the Never-Had
M
It’s possible to miss what you’ve never had, to mourn for it.
Paula Hawkins – The Girl on the Train
Finding Purpose
F
I am no longer just a girl on the train, going back and forth without point or purpose.
Paula Hawkins – The Girl on the Train
The Fear of Insufficiency
T
Who’s to say that once I run, I’ll find that isn’t enough?
Paula Hawkins – The Girl on the Train
The Pain of Suspicion
T
There’s nothing so painful, so corrosive, as suspicion.
Paula Hawkins – The Girl on the Train
The Dilemma of Waiting
T
And I can’t do this, I can’t just be a wife. I don’t understand how anyone does it—there is literally nothing to do but wait. Wait for a man to come home and love you. Either that or look around for something to distract you.
Paula Hawkins – The Girl on the Train
The Lies We Tell Ourselves
T
I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.
Paula Hawkins – The Girl on the Train