Clare Mackintosh Quotes & Sayings

Five years of someone's life is too much to lose over a throwaway comment. — Clare Mackintosh

My steps feel lighter now and I realize it's because I'm running toward something, and not away from it. — Clare Mackintosh

Everything has changed. The instant the car slid across the wet tarmac, my whole life changed. I can see everything clearly, as though I am standing on the sidelines. I can't go on like this. — Clare Mackintosh

You must remember that he was a boy. That he had a mother. And that her heart is breaking. — Clare Mackintosh

I want to fix an image of him in my head, but all I can see when I close my eyes is his body, still and lifeless in my arms. I let him go, and I will never forgive myself for that. — Clare Mackintosh

They speak to each other through the magistrate, like warring children communicating through a parent, their words are extravagantly emotive illustrated with flamboyant gestures that are wasted on the empty court room — Clare Mackintosh

Such a small impact on the world, yet the very centre of my own. — Clare Mackintosh

Gradually, without my noticing, my grief has changed shape; from a raw, jagged pain that won't be silenced to a dull, rounded ache I'm able to lock away at the back of my mind. — Clare Mackintosh