The Pact Sharon Bolton Quotes

Amber, he'd decided while they were still at school, was vanadium, strong and useful on the surface, especially when she had others to bounce off, but basically nothing under the hood.

Are you sure?’ he managed. ‘I mean, what would you gain? You know it happened, you paid the price. You can move on now, surely? Put it behind you. We’ll help you. Actually, there’s been something I’ve been meaning to—’ ‘But that’s the point, I can’t put it behind me until I understand,’ she said. ‘I need to know what made me do such a stupid thing. When I had my whole life ahead of me, and such great friends. We were going to conquer the world, weren’t we? Why would I throw that away?’ She was

Don’t you remember the old accountants’ saying: “Turnover is vanity, profit is sanity and cash is reality”?

They reached a wooden bench, dedicated to the memory of someone in whom they had no interest but took advantage of the generosity of his friends all the same, and sat.

Xav, with his brilliance and physical beauty, was gold, of course: rare, fascinating, with a hundred different uses, but ultimately rather soft and unreliable. People had lusted after gold since the dawn of time, but no one had ever built a house from it.

As the years had gone by, he’d started to ask himself if this crippling guilt would have been less if he’d taken his share of the blame twenty years ago.