My Wife, The Worm Quotes

“With my heart racing, I looked down my body and to where I slapped myself. My heart sunk at the sight of a mangled spider there, upon my pale skin… What have I done?”
― Matt Shaw, My Wife, The Worm: Not Your Average Romance

“She’d been diagnosed with cancer, and I told her not to worry for I’d be following her soon after she leaves. Don’t you dare, were her exact words. And I didn’t - even though there was a huge part of me which wished I could just end things. That part now, loudly screaming at me once again; only to be drowned out by my wife saying, Don’t you dare again. Still. The temptation.”
― Matt Shaw, My Wife, The Worm: Not Your Average Romance

“I grabbed the ice-cream sundae from in front of her placing. ‘Yes, thank you. Thank you for the dessert. Very generous of you.’ She went to protest but, I simply took the spoon from her hand about turned and headed for the doors and where I’d left my… I dropped the ice-cream. The glass bowl smashed on the floor. The ice-cream splatted on the clean, tiled floor. ‘What’s it doing?’ I pointed through the glass window to where my wife and I had been seated. ‘What’s it fucking doing?!’ A blackbird was sitting - quite comfortably - on the table, next to the salad bowl. Next to my wife. ‘Will someone please tell me what it’s fucking doing?!”
― Matt Shaw, My Wife, The Worm: Not Your Average Romance

“In my head, I envisioned opening up the mouth of my penis and feeding a little of her into it. Let her wriggle her sexy little butt around in the mouth as I stroke myself. I’d even wondered whether it would work if I were to cut her in half and make two of her. Half would go into my penis mouth and the other half, if I were to lay on my side, could tickle my backside; something she used to do with her little pinky, back when she was a real woman.”
― Matt Shaw, My Wife, The Worm: Not Your Average Romance

“I hope they never have to understand. I hope they live long, happy lives with their loved ones and they meet up in the next world to continue their adventures together.”
― Matt Shaw, My Wife, The Worm: Not Your Average Romance

“Had you not come back, I would still be at home. I’d be locked away in my misery, mourning you.’ You could have met someone else. You would have met someone else. ‘I don’t want anyone else. Whatever shape you take… No matter what… I would always want you to come home to me.”
― Matt Shaw, My Wife, The Worm: Not Your Average Romance

“So if your partner came back to life as a worm, you’d what? You would leave them out in the dirt? You know, I actually feel sorry for you. For all of you. The fact I loved my wife so much I could love her in this form too… That’s real love.”
― Matt Shaw, My Wife, The Worm: Not Your Average Romance

“No. I brought my wife into the restaurant.’ ‘I’m sorry, sir, but I’m going to have to ask you to leave.’ ‘You’re kicking us out?’ ‘You can’t bring a worm into the restaurant. It’s just… It’s just not done.’ ‘Point to me where there are signs stating my wife can’t be here.”
― Matt Shaw, My Wife, The Worm: Not Your Average Romance

“We can have a holiday next year. Somewhere nicer too, given we’ll be debt free and have more spare income… The holiday never happened. Instead, the diagnosis was given. Had we known the closing chapters were approaching, we would have seized every day and lived every minute to the fullest.”
― Matt Shaw, My Wife, The Worm: Not Your Average Romance

“I raised my hand to my face and - gently - I gave my wife a kiss. Across the way, I couldn’t help but notice a nosey woman turning her nose up in disgust. Apparently I had timed my show of affection with absolute perfection to give the battle-axe a not-so-private show.”
― Matt Shaw, My Wife, The Worm: Not Your Average Romance