Don't Let Her Stay Quotes

“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

“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

“I think I'm going to scream.”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“but my brain is like mashed potato.”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“My heart is full of love and happiness when I’m with my baby.”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“Also I’m not giving her my passcode. ‘If you let me change the music, then we can talk about whatever you like,’ she says. ‘One five oh one.”
― 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

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

“I try to think of something else to say, but my brain is like mashed potato.”
― 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

“I’m getting paranoid. It worries me, how paranoid I’m becoming. It worries me a lot. It makes me wonder if I’m just like my mother.”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“She can stay here as long as she likes,’ I say, not really meaning it. ‘But I don't want her to be Evie's nanny.’ I don’t want her anywhere near Evie.”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“I’ve done it. I’ve put two cameras where they matter most. I set both to record to the cloud and finally go to sleep.”
― 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

“And then he moans. ‘I… don’t… tell her.’ Don’t tell her what? That you’re a total psycho? I think she knows by now.”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“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

“She’s not a kid. She just acts like one so you’ll believe whatever she says. She’s manipulating you.”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“He pulls out his handkerchief and dabs at her eyes.”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

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

“Why didn’t you tell me?’ ‘Tell you what?’ ‘That you and Diane had another baby?”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“I don’t care about your father’s money. I’m here because I love him. You might not believe it, but that says more about you than about me.”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“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 that young woman lives with you?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Then don’t stand too close to any balustrades, Mrs Atkinson.”
― 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

“I know. But it will be all right.”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

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

“That she did it.”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

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

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

“Two hours and fifty-five minutes. That's how long it takes before I find something that makes me sit up in bed. It’s dark, late evening. Evie asleep in the nursery. We must have been downstairs. At one point there’s movement. Evie’s little nightlight wasn’t on, but if you squint, you can see a shadow against the far wall. Chloe. She's crouched in the corner of the room. Then Evie starts to cry and literally one second later the shadow slips out of the room.”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay