The Heiress Quotes

“...you can put miles and mountains between you and home, but eventually, home will call you back.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

“I hope you never have to watch the one person you love most in the world, the person who loves you just as fiercely in return, lose that love, day by day, bit by bit, a steady draining away until there’s nothing left. Until they’re just a person who sleeps inches from you at night, and eats meals across a table from you, and reads books at your side, even smiles at you or laughs with you, but whose heart has shut you out forever.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

“A haunted house where the ghosts hadn’t had the courtesy to die yet.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

“A terrible thing, wanting someone and hating them all at the same time.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

“The Rockies are beautiful, but they don’t have shit on the Appalachians,”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

“One rarely finds salvation in Florida.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

“There should be some kind of warning when your life is about to change forever.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

“Just a child stolen from poor parents to replace the one the rich parents had been too careless with.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

“And if you can’t tell the truth at the end of it all, then what, I ask, is the fucking point?”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

“You had an ancestor who did those things once, and he made so much money that now that money makes money. I suppose this is why some countries eventually round up people like us and cut our heads off.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

“So, yeah, fucking sue me: when I found out the man I was married to had access to that kind of wealth, but wouldn’t touch it because the family who adopted him was a bag of dicks? I thought, Fuck that, and tried to figure out how to fix it.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

“He was twenty-five years my senior, and handsome in a bland way—comforting, familiar, will do in a pinch, but nothing to get all that excited about. The saltines and tomato soup of men.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

“It always comes back to the money with them. Even now, even when Ben is, in his own way, trying to make amends, he just can’t help himself. It would almost be funny if it weren’t so fucking tragic.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

“When something as cataclysmically horrible as your husband being shot to death on your honeymoon happens, people are both fascinated and repulsed by you.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

“This would be my life now, until Duke pushed too hard, or my head hit something at just the wrong angle, and I would never know when that moment was coming, only that it was.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

“In Tavistock, Ruby McTavish is talked about the way some ancient people must have discussed deities—a distant figure, mysterious and unknowable, but benevolent, a magnanimous provider,”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

“because I’d always have to deal with you, her little . . . project. The child she molded into her own image. But then you left, too, and finally, I was free. Finally, this house was my own.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

“This probably isn’t much of a defense, but I want you to know, I did wait at least two weeks before I finally opened Cam’s laptop when he was at work and searched his email for any communication from his family.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

“I grew up in a trailer park in Panama City. I’ve dug in the seats of my car for spare change to pay for hamburgers at McDonald’s.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

“I’ve watched the Nelles and the Libbys and the Bens from the fancier suburbs drive by in nice cars, spending money like they’ll always have it. So, yeah, fucking sue me: when I found out the man I was married to had access to that kind of wealth, but wouldn’t touch it because the family who adopted him was a bag of dicks?”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

“I knew it. I knew she’d interfered somehow. Howell said I was being paranoid, that she couldn’t have done such a thing, but he never knew Ruby like I did. None of you did. A snake in the grass from the day she slithered into this house.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

“I knew she was dead when I opened the door,” he goes on, and he turns, our gazes meeting, and I want to tell him to stop there, not to say the next part, the part that he won’t be able to take back, the part I won’t be able to unhear. “I knew. Because I killed her.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

“But it doesn’t feel like anything. It’s just a fact, one I’ve tried to run from, though I’ve now learned you can’t run from these kinds of things.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

“When nothing has ever been hard for you. When you’ve never had to do the normal shit everyone else does to get through their day, you start thinking maybe you aren’t a normal person. Maybe you are better.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

“Setting me up with her handsome son, ensuring that I would ultimately inherit her estate? What wasn’t there to like?”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

“realized that you can put miles and mountains between you and home, but eventually, home will call you back.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

“Lord Byron wrote, “There is a pleasure in the pathless woods / There is a rapture on the lonely shore / There is society where none intrudes / By the deep Sea, and music in its roar.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

“and realized that you can put miles and mountains between you and home, but eventually, home will call you back.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

“then.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

“Sometimes it's fun to give people enough rope with which to hang themselves.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress