Quotes by J.P. Delaney, The Girl Before

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Saul is as different from Simon Wakefield as it's possible to get, I find myself thinking. And Edward Monkford is utterl — J.P. Delaney, The Girl Before
And when I realized you had secrets too, I was glad. I thought we could be honest with each other. That we could finally — J.P. Delaney, The Girl Before
Life is simply too short to live it less perfectly than it could be lived. — J.P. Delaney, The Girl Before
There's a kind of purity to a relationship unencumbered by convention, a sense of simplicity and freedom. — J.P. Delaney, The Girl Before
It's the sketch Edward did of me before he went away, the one he said was fine but didn't want to keep. It's as if he's — J.P. Delaney, The Girl Before
That was Emma—she'd have enjoyed knowing she had something like that, something that could blow her whole fucking life a — J.P. Delaney, The Girl Before
But one day, when Toby is old enough, I will take down a shoe box from a shelf where it is kept, and I will tell him aga — J.P. Delaney, The Girl Before
The same goes for Edward Monkford. Yes, based on what you've told me, it seems Emma was the real narcissist, not him. Bu — J.P. Delaney, The Girl Before
But I know he loves me. I know he needs our games, that they answer some deep-seated hunger in him. — J.P. Delaney, The Girl Before
But don't you see, I say, I don't care. I don't care what you've done or how bad you are. Edward, we belong together. We — J.P. Delaney, The Girl Before
Love flows from me into him, and his blue eyes crinkle, huge and happy. Such a smiley baby. The midwife says it can't be — J.P. Delaney, The Girl Before
Sometimes it's as if I can shrink away to nothing. Sometimes I feel as pure and perfect as a ghost. The hunger, the head — J.P. Delaney, The Girl Before
I know it must look odd, given that I didn't even know Emma. But it seems to me that almost no one really knew her. Ever — J.P. Delaney, The Girl Before
I will take what I can from Edward. And then I will let them fade into history, all the characters in this drama. Emma M — J.P. Delaney, The Girl Before
We're all connected now, I think as I send it off into cyberspace. Everyone and everything. — J.P. Delaney, The Girl Before
I feel a thrill of excitement at this first tiny glimpse of self-revelation, of intimacy. — J.P. Delaney, The Girl Before
I loved Emma.' The words, so flat and final, explode into the air. 'But she lied to me. I thought perhaps I could have t — J.P. Delaney, The Girl Before
All these men who loved Emma, I think. For all her problems, men were fixated on her. Will anyone ever feel like that ab — J.P. Delaney, The Girl Before