Sharon Bolton Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Sharon Bolton
Every time Tom was tempted to turn back, he made himself think of his brother. Joe, who he sometimes thought had been sent to earth to make his life miserable, who had been a complete pain from the day he was born, who was always getting his own way and who he fantasized about killing at least once a week. Joe, who he really didn't think he could live the rest of his life without. — Sharon Bolton
The sound of running footsteps made them all start. Then the refectory door opened and the round, freckled face of Sister Belinda appeared. She was breathing heavily, and her veil was crooked, showing short tufts of red hair sprouting around her glowing face like unruly weeds in a parched garden.
"Excuse me, Mother, Sisters," she said. "But there is a police car waiting at the gate and what looks like the Black Maria behind it. Also, another car approaching from the farm and a uniformed constable coming in via the beach path. It would appear that the filth have us surrounded. — Sharon Bolton
Our names are an integral part of the faces we show to the world. If we're judged first on outward appearances, we're assessed next on our names. — Sharon Bolton
The people we love fall into two distinct camps, it seems to me. First, those whom we are obliged to care for, connected to us through ties of blood and, occasionally, other people's marriages. Then there are those few souls who suit us so perfectly that we cannot help but love them. Those whose very presence seems to lift our spirits, soothe our ruffled feathers, tilt the disturbed world so that its axis is true again. — Sharon Bolton
On an island, anything can happen. In a crime novel, it usually does. — Sharon Bolton
I learned the hard way that people are quick to judge, will jump at the chance of a cheap ego boost at another's expense. — Sharon Bolton
On the advice of my U.K. publishers, I chose a sexless anonymity and published my first five books under the semi-pseudonym, S. J. Bolton. I was happy. I could hide behind a genderless, classless persona and let my creepy, psychological murder-mysteries speak for themselves. — Sharon Bolton
He'll never know what it would be like, to wake up beside her. — Sharon Bolton
Scared by the noise, Millie looked down at her brothers. Then she held out both arms and Tom's stomach turned cold. She was going to jump to him, like she did from the back of the sofa. She was going to jump, confident that he'd catch her, like he always did. — Sharon Bolton
my experience, people who are very keen on The Lord of the Rings can be a bit odd. On the other hand, I was quite a Tolkien fan myself. — Sharon Bolton
I was prepared to be lenient when it was my own safety at stake but if he hurts my dog, I will kill him. — Sharon Bolton
My first novel, 'Sacrifice,' was set on the Shetland Islands. — Sharon Bolton
THERE ARE TIMES when just waking up can feel like the hardest thing anyone could ever ask you to do. The first morning after your child has died, perhaps. Or after the man you adore has walked out. You would give anything, certainly the rest of your life, to stay down in the darkness of not knowing.
It never happens, though, does it? You always come back to yourself. The world is still there. You are still there... — Sharon Bolton
Crime writers adore islands. We love the sense of being trapped within a community apart, where normal codes of behavior, if not ignored, can be allowed to slip. — Sharon Bolton
She nods and the elephant in the room throws back its head and trumpets so loud I think the roof might come off. — Sharon Bolton
But death has taken root inside you and you know it will grow, like a cancer with a voice, from now until the day it consumes you whole. — Sharon Bolton
'The Magus,' usually described as a book for the young, is about learning that the world is a mysterious and limitless place, beyond our control, and all the more exciting - and daunting - because of it. — Sharon Bolton
If you have to choose between terrible grief and terrible guilt, I think grief is easier, in the end. — Sharon Bolton
Whenever I find myself in an exceptionally beautiful environment, I can't help asking myself - what lies beneath? I'm fascinated by the idea of a perfect surface concealing a rotten core. — Sharon Bolton