"The victories have a tendancy to wash off you. The destruction-the dead-stay by your side, tap you on the shoulder, slow your step, haunt your sleep." Harlan Coben, 'Promise Me'

"One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl... Three for a girl. I'm stuck on three, I just can't get any further. My head is thick with sounds, my mouth thick with blood. Three for a girl. I can hear the magpies- they're laughing, mocking me, a raucous cackling. A tiding. Bad tidings. I can see them now, black against the sun. Not the birds, something else. Someone's coming. Someone is speaking to me. Now look. Now look what you made me do." Paula Hawkins 'The Girl On the Train'