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The Girl on the Train: A Novel

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 (12)

“In any case, I can’t risk looking backwards. It’s always a bad idea.”

— Paula Hawkins, amazon.com

Tagged: Moving Forward, Uncertainties

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: Marriage, Wife, Waiting, Patience

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

— Paula Hawkins, amazon.com

Tagged: Control, Insanity, Thoughts

“There is a pile of clothing on the side of the train tracks.”

— Paula Hawkins, amazon.com

Tagged: first lines of books

“She’s buried beneath a silver birch tree, down towards the old train tracks, her grave marked with a cairn.”

— Paula Hawkins, amazon.com

Tagged: first lines of books

“And I’ve just got to let myself feel the pain, because if I don’t, if I keep numbing it, it’ll never really go away.”

— Paula Hawkins, amazon.com

Tagged: Pain, Numb, Life

“I did become sadder, and sadness gets boring after a while, for the sad person and for everyone around them.”

— Paula Hawkins, amazon.com

Tagged: Depression, Sorrow

“I’m playing at real life instead of actually living it.”

— Paula Hawkins, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, Depression, Acting, Living

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: Depression, self-harm, Bravery

“'When did you become so weak?’ I don’t know. I don’t know where that strength went, I don’t remember losing it. I think that over time it got chipped away, bit by bit, by life, by the living of it.”

— Paula Hawkins, amazon.com

Tagged: Weakness, strength, Life

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

— Paula Hawkins, amazon.com

Tagged: Control, Depression, Life

“Hollowness: that I understand. I'm starting to believe that there isn't anything you can do to fix it. That's what I've taken from the therapy sessions: the holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mold yourself through the gaps.”

— Paula Hawkins, amazon.com

Tagged: Emptiness, Depression, therapy