The Fear of Insufficiency

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

I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I’m not even brave enough for that.

Paula Hawkins – The Girl on the Train

You’re stuck in a place you don’t want to be, with no way out, no options.

Paula Hawkins – The Girl on the Train

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 is not a paragraph, and death is no parenthesis.

Paula Hawkins – The Girl on the Train