Louise quotes

Question 1

Finally escaped

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the breakfast table

Question 2

An avoidance

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of the inevitable return home

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She had married the right man,

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it was just that she was the wrong woman

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She wanted to give in,

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leave the battlefield

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I can’t

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do relationships

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Reggie was sixteen

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and could have passed for twelve.

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Sometimes she wondered is she was

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invisible

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It was very easy to

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slip between the cracks, especially if you were small

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She didn’t want Dr Hunter to

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think of her as anything but heroically, cheerfully competent.

Question 10

Reggie leaped

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instinctively to her feet

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What did he mean she’d

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gone away? Gone away? Gone away where? And why?

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Tossed

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restlessly

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so-called

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aunt

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You gave him

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a chance

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Sprawled out

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on his back

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the wrong

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train

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Not dead, not yet.

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Not exactly alive though.

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You can’t

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fight a train crash

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Something had

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happened to Dr Hunter.

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over-excited

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imagination

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stain that was

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blood

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Had rung the doorbell and

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Needler had opened the door and shot him in the chest

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Victims faded,

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murderers loved on in the memory. Only the police kept the eternal flame alight.

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Clever and

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funny and surprising

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thirty

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years later

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Edinburgh medical student,

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holding aloft a trophy

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slammed the heel of her hand

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upwards into Peter’s windpipe as hard as she could

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Common

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carotid artery

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her

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lifeline

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Run,

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Joanna run

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Their father

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(‘the bastard’)

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Joseph was nothing yet

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He was just a baby, fat and happy.

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He was making a funny,

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huffing, puffing noise.

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the great silver knife

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carving through her heart as if it was slicing butcher’s meat

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Run,

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Joanna, run

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the thing that drove her to distraction

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was that she couldn’t remember what the dog was called. And there was no one left to ask.

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scope

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out the village hid studied

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He liked male

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paraphernalia- cars, knives, gadgets, watches

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third-floor

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shoebox

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runty

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brother

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Dr Hunter saw

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the potential for sadness everywhere

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He was on the

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road to nowhere

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absurd wrestling

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match

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being police was just

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the obverse of being criminal, after all

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It’s my job

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to be obsessed.

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He hadn’t caught the train to King’s Cross, he had

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caught the train from King’s Cross

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He was going the

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wrong way

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Her brain started to be nibbled at

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by her crabby tumour

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Alison’s nerves were tuned

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as tight as piano wires twenty-four hours a day

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Her life was

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a train wreck

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plenty of life left

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for him to live

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always the purveyor of bad news,

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like some dark messenger angel

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Unicorn

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Magic-themed birthday party

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you had to watch

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out for the ordinary ones

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Reggie Chase, as small as a mouse, as

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quiet as a house with no one home

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She could see the bottom

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of her wine glass already

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‘Hello, soldier’

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the nurse said

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A coincidence is just

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an explanation waiting to happen

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Heart clubs, diamonds

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spades, warrant. Trumps.

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London

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Marathon

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This is my life, it said, this is me.

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No longer a victim.

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Where was the

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third suit?

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It belonged with the baby. The baby belonged with

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Dr Hunter. The dog belonged with Dr Hunter. Reggie belonged with Dr Hunter. It was all wrong.

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Who could remember one of

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the Yorkshire Ripper’s victims

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‘The bad man is locked away for ever darling’

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Not forever, it turned out, just thirty years

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she was chronically

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camera-shy

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He was a detective. Used to be.

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Detectives knew how to find people. People who were missing.

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‘So you used to find people?’

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‘Sometimes. I also lost people.’

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‘There is no aunt’

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‘Interesting. It’s like something out of Agatha Christie.’

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‘You’ve comitted a crime, several crimes actually.’

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‘You haven’t arrested me’ ‘Not yet’

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The girl was a

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terrier

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Not so much a Madonna as

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a great dark avenging angel

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The baby woke up

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and laughed when he saw her

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‘Just tell me, has she been

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kidnapped, yes or no?’

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She had wanted to be in

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there at the kill

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She wanted to have torn

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him apart with her bare hands, like a crazed Maenad

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No sign of

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Tessa

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He had fallen

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like the biggest fool ever

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willed Jackson

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to come back

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I am not pregnant.

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But hey

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Louise supposed she could have pushed it,

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found some forensic evidence somewhere

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Maybe you could have broken

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her if you had really wanted to

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Anderson came up

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smelling of roses

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Louise would opt for Joanna Hunter to be

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fighting on her side.

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It was the easy

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way out

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Call me

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Louise.

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She tucked all the little plastic bags of heroin

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[…] into the coffin with Ms MacDonald.

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The Co-op

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