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The Girl On The Train

The #1 New York Times Bestseller, USA Today Book of the Year, soon to be a major motion picture. Nominated for the 2016 Holden-Crowther Book Award. The debut psychological thriller that will forever change the way you

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Paula Hawkins (55)

“I have lost control over everything, even the places in my head.”

— Paula Hawkins, amazon.com

Tagged: Control, Thoughts, Losing Control

“There’s nothing so painful, so corrosive, as suspicion.”

— Paula Hawkins, amazon.com

Tagged: Painful, suspicion, Doubt

“I feel a rush of gratitude so strong, it feels almost like love.”

— Paula Hawkins, amazon.com

Tagged: Gratitude, thankful, Intense emotions, Love

“The holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mould yourself through the gaps.”

— Paula Hawkins, amazon.com

Tagged: Self Acceptance, Embrace Imperfection, Healing from Suffering

“I have lost control over everything, even the places in my head.”

— Paula Hawkins, amazon.com

Tagged: Imagination, Overthink, Inability to Control the Mind

“After everything he's been through he deserves to be happy, I will never begrudge him happiness, I only wish it could be with me.”

— Paula Hawkins, amazon.com

Tagged: Happiness, Exes, Love

“Sometimes I feel like seeing if I can track down anybody from the old days, but then I think, what would I talk to them about now?”

— Paula Hawkins, amazon.com

Tagged: old friends, Friends, Communication

“The more I go over it, the less sense it makes, and I can’t stop going over it.”

— Paula Hawkins, amazon.com

Tagged: overanalyzing, Thinking, Confusion

“I am furious, nails digging into my palms, tears stinging my eyes. I feel a flash of intense anger. I feel as though something has been taken away from me.”

— Paula Hawkins, amazon.com

Tagged: Anger, Feelings, emotions

“One more day of drinking, perhaps, and then I’ll get myself straight tomorrow.”

— Paula Hawkins, amazon.com

Tagged: Drinking, Alcoholic, Drunk

“They’re a match, they’re a set. They’re happy, I can tell. They’re what I used to be, they’re Tom and me five years ago. They’re what I lost, they’re everything I want to be.”

— Paula Hawkins, amazon.com

Tagged: Happiness, Couples, Relationship Goals

“On the train, the tears come, and I don’t care if people are watching me; for all they know, my dog might have been run over. I might have been diagnosed with a terminal illness. I might be a barren, divorced, soon-to-be-homeless alcoholic.”

— Paula Hawkins, amazon.com

Tagged: Crying, Tears, staring, Pain

“What if the thing I’m looking for can never be found? What if it just isn’t possible?”

— Paula Hawkins, amazon.com

Tagged: Dreams, Wants, Missing

“I feel as though we're having fight already, even though the fight's only in my imagination. And in my head, thoughts go round and round and round. And I feel like I'm suffocating.”

— Paula Hawkins, amazon.com

Tagged: Fighting, Imagination, Head, suffocating

“One minute I’m ticking along fine and life is sweet and I want for nothing, and the next I can’t wait to get away, I’m all over the place, slipping and sliding again.’”

— Paula Hawkins, amazon.com

Tagged: Happiness, Sadness, Depression

“It’s so hard to feel responsible for something you don’t remember. So I never feel bad enough. I feel bad, but the thing that I’ve done—it’s removed from me. It’s like it doesn’t belong to me.”

— Paula Hawkins, amazon.com

Tagged: responsible, Guilt, removed

“When I close my eyes, my head is filled with images of past and future lives, the things I dreamed I wanted, the things I had and threw away.”

— Paula Hawkins, amazon.com

Tagged: Past, Future, Dreams, Regrets

“Usually, I would pretend to be nice, but this morning I feel real, like myself. I feel high, almost like I’m tripping, and I couldn’t fake nice if I tried.”

— Paula Hawkins, amazon.com

Tagged: pretending, kindness, faking

“I can’t blame my parents or my childhood, an abusive uncle or some terrible tragedy. It’s my fault.”

— Paula Hawkins, amazon.com

Tagged: Blame, Family, Responsibility

“I became lonely, so I drank a bit, and then a bit more, and then I became lonelier, because no one likes being around a drunk. I lost and I drank and I drank and I lost.”

— Paula Hawkins, amazon.com

Tagged: Drinking, Lonely, Drunk, Alcohol, Alcoholic