I can't do this, I can't just be a wife. I don't understand how anyone does it—there is literally nothing to do but wait. Wait for a man to come home and love you.

Sometimes, I don't want to go anywhere, I think I'll be happy if I never have to set foot outside the house again.

—Paula Hawkins in The Girl on the Train

There was a time when I thought he could be everything, he could be enough. I thought that for years. I loved him completely. I still do. But I don't want this any longer.

—Paula Hawkins in The Girl on the Train

If he does it with you, he'll do it to you.

—Paula Hawkins in The Girl on the Train

Sometimes I catch myself trying to remember the last time I had meaningful physical contact with another person, just a hug or a heartfelt squeeze of my hand.

—Paula Hawkins in The Girl on the Train

I don't believe in soul mates, but there's an understanding between us that I just haven't felt before, or at least, not for a long time.

—Paula Hawkins in The Girl on the Train

The home is the chief school of human virtues.

—William Ellery Channing

I let it go. It's like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.

—Joanne Harris in Five Quarters of the Orange

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

—Twyla Tharp

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters daydreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

—Gaston Bachelard

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

—Simone Weil