Between Husbands and Friends Quotes

“The most terrible thing about marriage, I suppose, is that we know and understand each other’s weaknesses and fears as much as we know our strengths and desires.”
― Nancy Thayer, Between Husbands and Friends

“Perhaps in every close friendship there is an element of, if not competition, then comparison. Perhaps that is one of the things that makes a friend belong especially to us. Somehow, in the secrecy of our hearts, a scale must balance.”
― Nancy Thayer, Between Husbands and Friends

“Does every woman at some point in her life wander through the sleeping house, looking in at her husband and children, and wonder what she’s doing here, in this particular life?”
― Nancy Thayer, Between Husbands and Friends

“It’s funny, but if I had to say whom I’m closer to, who knows me better, I’d have a hard time choosing between my husband and my best friend.”
― Nancy Thayer, Between Husbands and Friends

“I need magic. I want spells and incantations. I want someone to help me. I can’t do this by myself. This is how a criminal feels when she has pleaded guilty and stands all alone, when the judgment has been given and the gavel dropped down. This is how she feels, full of self-loathing and a smothering terror, unable to breathe, choking on her very life.”
― Nancy Thayer, Between Husbands and Friends