# Pat Barker

- Quotes: 25
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-barker

## Books

- [Border Crossing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-barker/border-crossing.md) — 25 quotes

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> But [Tom] was used to switching off, to living his life in separate compartments.

> But sir, certainly, there isn't any proof as to my guilt...

> It was extraordinarily distracting: this feeling of a pivotal moment in his own life being played out in front of an uninvited audience.

> The man needs to learn how to controll his anger, he is crossing a border here, and he has no right

> I don't know why I killed her, I didn't know then and I don't know now. And I don't know how to live with it.

> ...he'd seen the boy's [Danny's] body hang suspended... an umbilical cord of silver bubbles linking his slack mouth to the air.

> [Tom] was less than halfway across the causeway when the mist thickened.

> [Danny] was very, very good at getting people to step across that invisible border. Lambs to the slaughter.

> I thought he was one of the most dangerous boys we've ever had through the school.

> The forensic evidence for Danny's guilt was overwhelming, but he was a good liar.

> You wring a chicken's neck, you don't expect to find it running round the yard next morning, do you?

> ...the horror of the images impossible to connect with the child he'd just left.