Married to the Black Widow Quotes

“I closed my eyes and thought back through the years – everything that had happened, how I’d got here, how many times I’d wondered whether ‘this’ year would be different from the last? But it never was. All that time trying to find a way to take away Grace’s pain and asking what else I would have to give up to put an end to the conflict.”
― Rob Parkes, Married to the Black Widow: A chilling true story of lies and deception

“But even when I was refusing to be provoked (or perhaps I might cynically suggest because of that fact), Victoria continued to up the ante.”
― Rob Parkes, Married to the Black Widow: A chilling true story of lies and deception

“I, like so many others, had held on to the hope that just getting to court would be the solution: it would provide fairness and clarity to a situation which had neither. But what I got was a catch-all proclamation that gave all the power and control in the relationship to one of us and then expected that we should share nicely.”
― Rob Parkes, Married to the Black Widow: A chilling true story of lies and deception

“The depths of the twisted power play, things that I had seen first-hand and more that I feared had happened when I wasn’t there, gave rise to the issues that I was being forced to confront.”
― Rob Parkes, Married to the Black Widow: A chilling true story of lies and deception