Paula Hawkins quote: "I don't have a partner, so I take care of the mortgage by myself, and I was thinking, 'Oh God, I'm going to have to sell the house or find a new career.' I was not in a good place, but it was a real spur to get 'The Girl on the Train' right. I had to nail it and do it really well. It really concentrates the mind, that kind of thing."

I have lost control over everything, even the places in my head.
PAULA HAWKINS

Things like the movie 'Memento' are interesting to me because our memories of the things we&...
PAULA HAWKINS

I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave ...
PAULA HAWKINS

I have a fascination with the nasty things people do to each other and the way relationships go wron...
PAULA HAWKINS

Hollowness: that I understand. I'm starting to believe that there isn't anything you can do to fix i...
PAULA HAWKINS

I'm not naturally an extrovert. I'm a writer - I sit in a room by myself making things up. T...
PAULA HAWKINS

There’s something comforting about the sight of strangers safe at home.
PAULA HAWKINS

Life is not a paragraph, and death is no parenthesis.
PAULA HAWKINS

He lied all the time, about everything. Even when he didn't need to, even when there was no point. ....
PAULA HAWKINS

some battles aren’t worth fighting.
PAULA HAWKINS

I am no longer just a girl on the train,
PAULA HAWKINS

I'm well aware that there is no job more important than that of raising a child, but the problem is ...
PAULA HAWKINS

I am not a model wife. I can’t be. No matter how much I love him, it won’t be enough.
PAULA HAWKINS

He lies to himself the way he lies to me. He believes this. He actually believes that he was good to...
PAULA HAWKINS

I am no longer just a girl on the train, going back and forth without point or purpose.
PAULA HAWKINS

here will be no closure, no resolution. I lie awake thinking about it and I ache. There can be no gr...
PAULA HAWKINS

I’ve been the fool. If he does it with you, he’ll do it to you.
PAULA HAWKINS

It’s ridiculous, when I think about it. How did I find myself here? I wonder where it started, my ...
PAULA HAWKINS

He’s a master at it, making me feel as though everything is my fault, making me feel worthless.
PAULA HAWKINS

let’s be honest: women are still only really valued for two things—their looks and their role as...
PAULA HAWKINS

I spent a lot of time writing about tax and pensions and mortgages.
PAULA HAWKINS

You can do fascinating things with the tricks memory can play and tell. People can come to believe t...
PAULA HAWKINS

The holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete;...
PAULA HAWKINS

I have never understood how people can blithely disregard the damage they do by following their hear...
PAULA HAWKINS

I don't remember things. I black out and I can't remember where I've been or what I've done. Sometim...
PAULA HAWKINS

I know people like to read about serial killers and spies, but most of us will never encounter these...
PAULA HAWKINS

The journalism, I was a financial journalist - it's very good training as a writer. You have to ...
PAULA HAWKINS

People think it's terribly sad to spend Christmas alone, but it's no sadder, really, than sp...
PAULA HAWKINS

You take care of yourself, Rachel," she said, and there was something about the way she said it that...
PAULA HAWKINS

There can be no greater agony, nothing can be more painful than the not knowing, which will never en...
PAULA HAWKINS

But then I think, this happens sometimes, doesn’t it? People you have a history with, they won’t...
PAULA HAWKINS

To have my hopes raised and dashed again, it's like cold steel twisting in my gut.
PAULA HAWKINS

For all of those willing to help me start a family, I am flattered. I will let you know when I need ...
PAULA ABDUL

I don't care what the haters and naysayers say. If they make jokes about me, I'll laugh beca...
PAULA DEEN

I deliberately returned slowly to training after Raphael was born and everything, apart from being b...
PAULA RADCLIFFE

Never set limits, go after your dreams, don't be afraid to push the boundaries. And laugh a lot ...
PAULA RADCLIFFE

I know when you think about the South, you think about fried foods, but we eat a tremendous amount o...
PAULA DEEN

I would be happy with an Olympic bronze. What I don't have is an Olympic medal.
PAULA RADCLIFFE

In my early twenties, that's when I really began to write. Before that, I was too busy working, ...
PAULA FOX

Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real c...
PAULA ABDUL

Women's battle for financial equality has barely been joined, much less won. Society still tradition...
PAULA NELSON

Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's...
PAULA NELSON

I'm a late bloomer, so I'm going to embrace it all.
PAULA PELL

There are those wonderful moments of clarity in life when one is reminded how irreparably flawed we ...
PAULA POUNDSTONE

Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painfu...
PAULA DANZIGER

The best business plans are straightforward documents that spell out the who, what, where, why, and ...
PAULA NELSON

The position of First Lady has no rules, just precedent, so its evolution has been at a virtual stan...
PAULA POUNDSTONE

Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking ...
PAULA POUNDSTONE

I didn't expect to be doing a whole bunch of Amber Browns. And because it was just one book, and...
PAULA DANZIGER

My mother was always in those films where it's the end of the world and a meteor's about to ...
PAULA YATES

When we save the rain forest, the polar bear, and Al Gore, we should party so hard that Canada calls...
PAULA POUNDSTONE

Of course, I will continue to share my favorite Southern recipes, just like my mama, grandmother and...
PAULA DEEN

I think it's important to find the little things in everyday life that make you happy.
PAULA COLE

Find a good teacher that will keep the game fun. Work hard and don't be afraid to have success o...
PAULA CREAMER

I like women who can throw a ball and laugh loud and have some spine, and I like men who don't m...
PAULA COLE

Didgeridoo was something I picked up while I was on tour in Australia with Peter Gabriel in '93....
PAULA COLE

At the age of 15 months my daughter was diagnosed with very bad asthma, and essentially I put my car...
PAULA COLE

When you're a plebeian you want success, and when you're successful you want to be a plebeia...
PAULA COLE

I think of my shows as family reunions. I give 100% every time. I just do. It's a huge therapeut...
PAULA COLE

But looking back, the fact was that I had a couple of big hits too quickly and it was simply too muc...
PAULA COLE

I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to acc...
PAULA COLE

I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subj...
PAULA COLE

I struggled with being in the public eye, losing my anonymity when my star rose quickly in the late ...
PAULA COLE

I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs.
PAULA COLE

The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge aby...
PAULA COLE

Being a writer is a very private, internal process. Ultimately I am more the writer, being an introv...
PAULA COLE

For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tende...
PAULA COLE

I find that the older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness o...
PAULA COLE

I was curious and hungry at a young age, and jazz was such a mystery to me, an ocean where you can e...
PAULA COLE

The monsters are in your own head.
PAULA COLE

If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the qu...
PAULA COLE

People have become less discriminating listeners, which is tragic, really. There's a lot of empe...
PAULA COLE

The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I'm taking more chances; I'm bol...
PAULA COLE

Just watching my cats can make me happy.
PAULA COLE

I want to keep meeting new people, enlarging my circle of friends. I have great friends now... reall...
PAULA DANZIGER

Starting probably with Janeane Garofalo and that era of stand-up ladies who were starting to be more...
PAULA PELL

Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yo...
PAULA ABDUL

I don't need a holiday or a feast to feel grateful for my children, the sun, the moon, the roof ...
PAULA POUNDSTONE

I am living proof that the American dream still exists. It is still alive and well. There is only on...
PAULA DEEN

You don't want to make a steady diet of just lettuce. You don't want to make a steady diet o...
PAULA DEEN

I'll keep peace at all cost, even if I choke to death on my tongue.
PAULA DEEN

I signed on with Disney to star and choreograph an original film.
PAULA ABDUL

He had had to be father and mother to her, and he had taken to his tasks with determination, seeking...
PAULA BRACKSTON

I'm a big hit at parties. Friends ask me to sing B-I-N-G-O all the time. I'm thinking, you k...
PAULA PELL

When we live up to our Constitution, let's form a Conga line around the Capitol and bungee jump ...
PAULA POUNDSTONE

It's important that athletes can compete on a level playing field. And youngsters coming into th...
PAULA RADCLIFFE

I am not driven by any bitterness by what happened in Athens. I learnt a lot of lessons from it and ...
PAULA RADCLIFFE

I plan my golf outfits for the tournaments, I recycle some for the practice rounds, but I always hav...
PAULA CREAMER

All the women I've grown up with at 'SNL' and other areas, and even the women that work ...
PAULA PELL

Walking is magic. Can't recommend it highly enough. I read that Plato and Aristotle did much of ...
PAULA COLE

I'm so glad I'm not a dentist. How many times does someone say, 'Oh, Doc, it felt so goo...
PAULA DEEN

I was determined to share my positive approach and not let diabetes stand in the way of enjoying my ...
PAULA DEEN

I hope and believe we are paving a better future for female artists to come.
PAULA COLE

I've left Bethlehem, and I feel free. I've left the girl I was supposed to be, and some day ...
PAULA COLE

It takes a special kind of family to bathe together in their 40s.
PAULA PELL

You can be strong and true to yourself without being rude or loud.
PAULA RADCLIFFE

Onions and bacon cooking up just makes your kitchen smell so good. In fact, one day I'm going to...
PAULA DEEN

The thought of eating rabbit and squirrels doesn't appeal to me. And that was on our table quite...
PAULA DEEN

President Obama could keep a big map with push pins on it to keep track of how many countries hate u...
PAULA POUNDSTONE

Listen, I'm from Belfast. We're not polite people. And it's language. We're direct.
PAULA MALCOMSON

I'm accepting I'm not living that younger, dreamed version of myself in the big city.
PAULA COLE

I wanted to be a cheerleader, like my sister was - all the most popular and beautiful girls are chee...
PAULA COLE

I'll probably never have children because I don't believe in touching people for any reason.
PAULA POUNDSTONE

Rose lived the same life I did, but she doesn’t have PTSD. No bad dreams, no missing memories. Som...
PAULA STOKES

I can't wait to be back on the dance floor. I feel really good about it.
PAULA ABDUL

It gave me a sharp kind of sadness to think that no matter how much I loved him and tried to put him...
PAULA MCLAIN

When I sat down to write I just felt like a geek writing about myself. And then it dawned on me, jus...
PAULA POUNDSTONE

Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up ’cause they’re looki...
PAULA POUNDSTONE

I know I can cook, but the place where I cook... it's a mess! I'm very disorganized.
PAULA DEEN

The farther we've gotten from the magic and mystery of our past, the more we've come to need Hallowe...
PAULA GURAN

I talk to a lot of librarians, and there's always a steady drumbeat of how libraries are places ...
PAULA POUNDSTONE

Find fitness with fun dancing. It is fun and makes you forget about the dreaded exercise.
PAULA ABDUL

There is etiquette in golf, but it's not any harder to learn than what to do at a dinner party. ...
PAULA CREAMER

Someone has to take the garbage out, someone has to cook the food, and someone has to clean the dish...
PAULA CREAMER

I don’t make to-do lists, but if I did, today’s would have gone something like this: 1. get drun...
PAULA STOKES

I have my new food line in the works - I think it's over 200 items. Hopefully I can make a diffe...
PAULA DEEN

I have short-term memory loss, though I like to think of it as Presidential eligibility.
PAULA POUNDSTONE

They shared the chores of living as some couples do--she did most of the work and he appreciated it.
PAULA GOSLING

The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
PAULA POUNDSTONE

I don't have a bank account, because I don't know my mother's maiden name.
PAULA POUNDSTONE

There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discip...
PAULA POUNDSTONE

Can you remember when you didn't want to sleep? Isn't it inconceivable? I guess the definition of ad...
PAULA POUNDSTONE

The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
PAULA POUNDSTONE

Breath is life, and the intermingling of breaths is the purpose of good living. This is in essence t...
PAULA ALLEN

An odd thing occurs in the minds of Americans when Indian civilization is mentioned: little or nothi...
PAULA ALLEN

He doesn't discuss his feelings with us. We try not to talk about it. It's hard enough as it is. ......
PAULA ALLEN

He's not feeling very well. He's tired a lot. You could tell he kind of wanted to cut the visit shor...
PAULA ALLEN

From my earliest childhood memories, Clarence Ray Allen imparted the most loving, giving and generou...
PAULA ALLEN

He'd be sitting on the other side of the room. Before you know it, it would start moving. It worked ...
PAULA ALLEN

For the American Indian, the ability of all creatures to share in the process of ongoing creation ma...
PAULA ALLEN

I think we'll be OK tomorrow. We all know what's happening here. We just gotta make the best of it.
PAULA ALLEN

I loved the arrangement, and I loved that you made it your own. You are one funky white boy.
PAULA ABDUL

Great. Just what I needed was a compliment on my wardrobe from someone who's always on the worst-dre...
PAULA ABDUL

You look phenomenal. You dressed the part. ... Your vocals were impeccable.
PAULA ABDUL

grateful this ordeal is over.
PAULA ABDUL

IÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢m grateful this ordeal is over, and IÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â�...
PAULA ABDUL

when you have a show this successful it's crazy we haven't had any more discrepancies.
PAULA ABDUL

I think casting directors need to take a good look at you because the camera loves you.
PAULA ABDUL

an admitted liar and opportunist who engages in unlawful activities.
PAULA ABDUL

Even if you get one gem.
PAULA ABDUL

I'm speechless
PAULA ABDUL

We were walking the floor. We weren't cutting the TV off at all just hoping to get a glimpse of him.
PAULA DEEN

Their space was very small ... so it was a real challenge.
PAULA DEEN

Keep the faith, don't lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct.
PAULA ABDUL

I grew up in a strong faith-based family. I think I have selected to return to those roots for stren...
PAULA BROADWELL

Once I was gone for a month and I was just miserable, so I flew back from Florida for two hours just...
PAULA POUNDSTONE

I took my first creative writing class when I was 24, then went onto to get a graduate degree in poe...
PAULA MCLAIN

Chaotic, ... After three holes, I knew I had to fight. I found some rhythm and calmed myself down.
PAULA CREAMER

On my show I share all these yummy, fattening recipes, but I tell people, in moderation, in moderati...
PAULA DEEN

People see me on TV two and three times a day, and see me cooking all these wonderfully Southern, fa...
PAULA DEEN

If you're hired to be a funny person, you have to trust your judgment but also be open because s...
PAULA PELL

My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried abou...
PAULA DANZIGER

I don't like going away from my children.
PAULA RADCLIFFE

We do not see this as a replacement, we see it as a complement to the Kyoto Protocol.
PAULA DOBRIANSKY

In order to have good fried chicken, you should wash and season the bird the morning you're prep...
PAULA DEEN

Bottom line, it's just your most natural insect repellent.
PAULA COMPANIO

The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their face whether they see a moth or ...
PAULA POUNDSTONE

When I'm hired just to be an actress, I don't have to worry about anything else but showing ...
PAULA GARCES

What they're doing is perpetuating a stereotype,
PAULA NELSON

determine, once and for all, whether Cindy Sheehan is Rosa Parks or Lyndon Larouche.
PAULA ZAHN

We're just delighted that management has come around to my way of thinking.
PAULA ZAHN

Sir, you're not telling me that you just learned that the folks at the convention centre didn't have...
PAULA ZAHN

It would never be both Michael and myself running because as a mother ... I would never put my child...
PAULA ZAHN

I'm excited by the complete shift in attitudes,
PAULA ZAHN

I have a painter's memory. I can remember things from my childhood which were so powerfully impr...
PAULA FOX

My act is sort of improvisational. I have a skeleton in my head, but no fat or skin on it.
PAULA POUNDSTONE

I'd love to act. I feel that it's another naked, mysterious challenge, like jazz. It kind of...
PAULA COLE

That was our key phrase. They don't remember how you start, but how you finish.
PAULA CREAMER

Not only do I never lie, I never respond to lies, no matter how vicious, no matter how hurtful.
PAULA ABDUL

Sometimes I do yoga, sometimes it's kickboxing, sometimes it's weight training, sometimes it...
PAULA PATTON

Some children challenge themselves to maybe run a marathon or something. I challenged myself to stay...
PAULA PELL

When every high school graduate can spell the word, 'inauguration,' let's put lampshades...
PAULA POUNDSTONE

You should only be scared of your imagination because it'll haunt you at night
PAULA ACEDO

It's insane. She's like the Tiger Woods of Japan. She's got cameras on her everywhere she goes.
PAULA CREAMER

The Internet, especially, can be a liberating force. Topics once politically taboo can become freely...
PAULA DOBRIANSKY

You're under the gun at all times because it's live TV. A lot of time, between dress and air...
PAULA PELL

I’m glad you still have your survival instinct.”

“We’ve all got something.” I l...
PAULA STOKES

I love key lime pie, although it's never made the proper way.
PAULA POUNDSTONE

I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.
PAULA POUNDSTONE

You know, nobody can ever cook as good as your mama.
PAULA DEEN

In my house, the Rose Parade and the Rose Bowl Game have always been a grand tradition for ringing i...
PAULA DEEN

The first thing I did was give up sweet tea because I drank so much. I'd start drinking at lunch...
PAULA DEEN

The patrons of the library were somewhat inconvenienced due to the voter traffic and parking spaces.
PAULA PASCHAL

We can’t define people by their worst actions.
PAULA STOKES

I will never use a substitute for butter. Margarine is one molecule away from eating plastic. If I&#...
PAULA DEEN

You are basically going to have a paralyzed region.
PAULA SCALINGI

I see the photographers. I know I'll be doing some things later on.
PAULA CREAMER

I am very, very disappointed because Paris was my main aim for the year. I have had my preparations ...
PAULA RADCLIFFE

I don't really have an explanation. I'm struggling myself to comprehend what has happened and find a...
PAULA RADCLIFFE

I am not going to let Athens affect the rest of my life.
PAULA RADCLIFFE

I have never said I was doubling up for both titles,
PAULA RADCLIFFE

It wasn't easy. It was my plan to keep a good pace going.
PAULA RADCLIFFE

It's definitely very special - right up there with running the world record,
PAULA RADCLIFFE

Down South, even our vegetables have some pig hidden somewhere in it. A vegetable isn't a vegeta...
PAULA DEEN

I love Hershey's chocolate. I feel the same about chocolate as I do about wine. Connoisseurs lik...
PAULA DEEN

Growing up with Jennifer Lopez and Salma Hayek - people who were always trying to do something else ...
PAULA GARCES

I am proud to be a Southerner. I think Southern hospitality is very... I don't think it's ju...
PAULA DEEN

You might think about putting some heavy-duty hooks into the ceiling joists and beams so that you ca...
PAULA YATES

When it's said and done, the one thing I want to leave on this earth is hope. I have felt hopele...
PAULA DEEN

At my confirmation, where you get the Holy Spirit, I came down the stairs at my party and had torn, ...
PAULA PELL

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