Nicola Sanders > Quotes

“Something that still fits me? Something that won’t make me look like salami encased in twine?”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“I think you’re losing your mind, Joanne. Just like your mother.”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“Chloe was eleven years old when her mother passed away. They were living near Reading at the time. Diane had been ill for some time, and Richard was away in Spain when she died unexpectedly.”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“He knows. He knows what she’s like, but he pretends he doesn’t. Or maybe he is so much in denial that he can’t bring himself to admit it. But one thing is suddenly very clear: he doesn’t want to provoke her.”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“Apart”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“First”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“She behaves like daddy’s twelve-year-old little girl when he’s around. So he thinks the problem is with me. That I see the worst in her. He actually thinks I might be paranoid like my mother.”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“Oh my god. This woman is like a sorceress. She has enchanted them all.”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Believe Her

“She hasn’t always been well, is what I meant”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“I’m going to make sure she’s happy and well-adjusted, even if it kills me.”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“What do you mean?’ ‘You’re limping.’ ‘Oh, it’s nothing. An old injury.’ She nods then drives off without even saying goodbye.”
― Nicola Sanders, All the Lies

“He takes my shoulders. ‘I don’t want to call the police. Not yet.”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“I saw Mr Atkinson and Chloe together once when I came to the house to speak to him for my article. He quickly sent her out of the room, but I saw the way she looked at him, and it was cold. Like she was dead inside. It gave me the shivers. Then I caught the look on Mr Atkinson’s face and believe me, Joanne, he was scared of her. That man was afraid of his eleven-year-old daughter.”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“Carla, sweetheart. Wait.’ Everyone else frowns at me. The villain. The evil twin. The arm breaker. The hair burner. And I’m still standing on my ottoman like a bride on a cake topper. A bride who’s been left at the altar, obviously.”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Believe Her

“Two hours and fifty-five minutes. That's how long it takes before I find something that makes me sit up in bed.”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“And does he have a last name?’ I ask. ‘Mmm. Smith.’ ‘John Smith?’ I say. ‘Yes.”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Believe Her

“tired to wash my hair.”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“Come out, Chloe! You evil little psycho! I’ll find you eventually!’ ‘Why does he keep calling you that?’ I whisper.”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“A certain type of person will quite happily hurt other people they pretend to love, just to score a point against an imaginary enemy.”
― Nicola Sanders, All The Lies

“After I hang up, Nick says, ‘Aren’t you glad you didn’t do your podcast?”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Believe Her

“Oh bugger it,’ I mutter, and walk across, helping myself to two of them.”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“I don’t know what’s going on anymore.”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“I should up my game. That’s what I should do. I should make him a delicious home-cooked meal. No, make that a candlelit dinner. And we haven’t had sex in weeks and that’s my fault. I’ll wear something sexy. Do I have something sexy to wear? Something that still fits me? Something that won’t make me look like salami encased in twine?”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“And you do that often? Get drunk and fuck other men?”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“Can’t you? Jo, my love.”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“wasn't”
― Nicola Sanders, All The Lies

“Nothing up there, Mrs Atkinson. Just an open window. I closed it. Was there anything else?”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“But I can’t find the video anymore. I look and look, scroll back and forth, check the dates, but it’s gone. ‘Chloe,’ I whisper. ‘What has she done now?’ ‘She got my passcode the other day. She must have gone through my phone and deleted it.”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“With Chloe in our lives our family would be complete. I couldn’t wait to meet her, to show her that I was no threat, that I respected their relationship, that I would never, ever get in the way of their bond.”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“DON'T LET HER STAY An unputdownable psychological thriller with a breathtaking twist”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay