Keep Your Friends Close Quotes

“I didn’t see what the big deal was. Dude hasn’t worked a solid job in six years. They were almost bankrupt, and they have a kid with cancer undergoing really expensive treatment right now, so he didn’t leave her with a lot of options.”
― Lucinda Berry, Keep Your Friends Close

“I’m not playing with you, Whitney. I know you’ve spent your life in a big, huge bubble of white privilege, but all that’s about to end. I’m going to lay out how things are going to work for you moving forward. If I decide to come after you—and believe me, that’s not something you want me to do—the first thing I’m doing is going through your list of escorts to see if there are any minors.”
― Lucinda Berry, Keep Your Friends Close

“Listen, you can look down your nose all snotty and judgmental at me all you want, but it’s a situation where everyone wins. Yes, I have a talent agency. A reputable one that’s constantly filling leads within the industry. But I also have a husband who gambles away our money as fast as I can make it. I worked hard to build this life, and I wasn’t going to give it up just because my husband has a problem. I had to do something.”
― Lucinda Berry, Keep Your Friends Close

“They were looking at all of us, and they’d probably be looking at her even more since she was the closest person to Kiersten. Sort of like how the husband was always a suspect in murder investigations? She was the next closest thing.”
― Lucinda Berry, Keep Your Friends Close

“I’d been reminding myself ever since my most recent session with my therapist. That was the biggest thing she was working with me on—to stop seeing and treating my husband like one of my children and start treating him like a responsible adult.”
― Lucinda Berry, Keep Your Friends Close

“Like we were a business transaction or a purchase she’d changed her mind about. But we both knew what this was really about. Liza.”
― Lucinda Berry, Keep Your Friends Close

“Getting married had been her idea too. Just like having kids, and I’d let her talk me into both the same way I let her talk me into everything like a stupid dummy. I gave up everything for her. Everything. Every single piece of me. Why? Why was I so stupid?”
― Lucinda Berry, Keep Your Friends Close

“I have no clue why Brooke acts the way she does.”
― Lucinda Berry, Keep Your Friends Close

“Whitney was a spoiled princess living in a palace,”
― Lucinda Berry, Keep Your Friends Close

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― Lucinda Berry, Keep Your Friends Close

“Abby just walked into the kitchen while I was unloading the dishwasher four nights ago and announced, “I don’t want to be married to you anymore.” There was no beating around the bush. It didn’t get any clearer than that. This wasn’t an I’m confused and need some time to figure things out or I’m not sure I want to do this anymore. She was out. Just like that. In the blink of an eye.”
― Lucinda Berry, Keep Your Friends Close

“unstable people do unstable things.”
― Lucinda Berry, Keep Your Friends Close

“After the worst thing happened to you, you weren’t afraid of bad things happening anymore.”
― Lucinda Berry, Keep Your Friends Close

“Men didn’t have the same burden, so how could he know? How could I expect him to understand? No man really could. They got points just for sticking around and not leaving. Their bar for parenthood was set so low, you could step over it. Ours was impossible to reach, and there was no way to win no matter what you did.”
― Lucinda Berry, Keep Your Friends Close

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― Lucinda Berry, Keep Your Friends Close

“Keeping secrets is poisonous.”
― Lucinda Berry, Keep Your Friends Close

“Sometimes the happiest people on the outside are the saddest ones on the inside,”
― Lucinda Berry, Keep Your Friends Close

“Remember when the only person you had to worry about was yourself?”
― Lucinda Berry, Keep Your Friends Close

“Women bond over secrets. That’s what female friendships are made of—shared secrets. It doesn’t matter if they’re yours or somebody else’s. You want to know the hidden parts of a woman’s life? The things she keeps tucked away from the outside world? Ask her best friend. She knows all her secrets.”
― Lucinda Berry, Keep Your Friends Close

“She was impressive, and she knew it.”
― Lucinda Berry, Keep Your Friends Close

“the only logical thing I could come up with was the same thing I’d told Tommy last night: she didn’t know she was pregnant. Especially because she’d been drinking at the party.”
― Lucinda Berry, Keep Your Friends Close

“One of them is that ‘How do you know if an addict is lying?’” This time I was the one to be silent while I waited for her to speak. She finally shrugged. Not amused. But it wasn’t a joke. “‘Their lips are moving.”
― Lucinda Berry, Keep Your Friends Close

“How dare Abby act like this wasn’t what she wanted?”
― Lucinda Berry, Keep Your Friends Close

“It was only eleven in the morning, but some days called for day drinking, and this might be one of them.”
― Lucinda Berry, Keep Your Friends Close