Good Husband Material Quotes

“Tish, help me! I’ve cut my wrist on the damned glass – it’s pouring blood – probably an artery! Let me in before I bleed to death!’
‘Go and bleed over the rose bushes, they’re supposed to thrive on it,’ I suggested heartlessly. He was by now directly underneath me and I couldn’t see any sign of draining arteries.
‘You heartless bitch!’ he raged, which was more like the James I’d come to know and didn’t love.”
― Trisha Ashley, Good Husband Material

“There are more men lurking in sheds in my garden than in any D.H. Lawrence novel.”
― Trisha Ashley, Good Husband Material

“Who needs men when they can have chocolate?
Who needs sex when they can have chocolate, come to that”
― Trisha Ashley, Good Husband Material

“He let me go so suddenly I staggered. ‘So you settled for respectable dullness, Angel, while I settled for—’
‘Disreputable excitement!’ I finished for him, rather tartly. ‘And I don’t know why you think my life is dull – especially since we moved here.’ (That was true at least!) ‘Anyway, I’d rather have dullness than be a hanger-on on the fringes of the sort of life you lead.’
‘You know nothing about the sort of life I lead.”
― Trisha Ashley, Good Husband Material

“You have to watch them all the time,’ she assured me darkly. ‘Even if the spirit’s willing, the flesh is weak!”
― Trisha Ashley, Good Husband Material