3 Quotes & Sayings By Cleary James

Cleary James is an award-winning author whose novels and short stories have been published in twenty-three countries. He has sold over 1.5 million copies of his books, and his work has been featured in multiple publications including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, USA Today, Washington Post, and The Atlantic. His books have been translated into nineteen languages and remain classics of the genre.

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The first time he had hit her, he had been so wracked with remorse, she had actually felt sorry for him. Consumed by guilt and self-loathing, he had sobbed in her arms like a child, swearing it would never happen again and begging for her forgiveness. Her stomach turned over now at the thought of how she had comforted him, assuring him that she trusted him and promising that she would never leave. She saw now with sickening clarity that she had been setting a precedent - giving him permission to do it again; reassuring him that she would tolerate anything. If only she had walked out there and then. Cleary James
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She preferred to be numb. And mostly these days she was. She played dead, sleepwalking her way through her life on autopilot, hardly caring whether he hit her or kissed her - it was all the same in the end. Cleary James