Maribelle’s Shadow Quotes

“When is the right time to tell your husband you know he's a cheater? Over breakfast? When he comes home from a business dinner, or he pretends to work overtime? These past few months, I wake in the middle of each night, chilled or feverishly hot, wondering this”
― Susannah Marren, Maribelle’s Shadow

“No other family in Palm Beach was as insular as theirs, Maribelle was sure of that. Maybe not insular but tethered”
― Susannah Marren, Maribelle’s Shadow

“Include everyone rather than forget someone and make an error, it's best not to offend a soul. The grander the bash, the better one's status”
― Susannah Marren, Maribelle’s Shadow

“A serious schism with Travis would have to wait. She had to endure him until Violet was at least ten, a better age to break up a family and destroy a child's life. Depending on which expert on divorce one followed”
― Susannah Marren, Maribelle’s Shadow

“Her mother always had tentacles to draw her daughters in - slippery tentacles that had grazed the bottom of the river in Kesgrave. In Palm Beach, they had been soaked in the Intracoastal”
― Susannah Marren, Maribelle’s Shadow

“What Alex said about people was true, including her family, especially her family. There were plenty of ulterior motives and a shortage of empathy”
― Susannah Marren, Maribelle’s Shadow

“Samuel claimed that art should be chosen with one's gut, not one's head or wallet”
― Susannah Marren, Maribelle’s Shadow

“Maribelle wondered what it might be like to have a mother who was not always bandying about the idea of whom she preferred. A mother who didn't continually evaluate her her friends, her daughters, and their husbands”
― Susannah Marren, Maribelle’s Shadow

“Raleigh realized this must be what shock felt like, when the person inside didn't feel present. It was like being invaded by some unknown force. The disbelief rushed at them”
― Susannah Marren, Maribelle’s Shadow