The Wife in the Photo Quotes

“That's the thing about humans that a lot of people don't realize - so many people are worried about what others think of them when in reality it doesn't matter. Nobody cares. People are all too busy worrying about themselves to think about another person, let alone judge them”
― Emily Shiner, The Wife in the Photo

“She hates Evan, but not the way I do. I hate him because of what he did to my family; she hates him because of what he might do to hers”
― Emily Shiner, The Wife in the Photo

“There are a lot of people who believe in coincidences, but I'm not one of them. Nothing on this planet happens without reason, without purpose, and most of the time the reason something happens is because someone somewhere is being an idiot”
― Emily Shiner, The Wife in the Photo

“She flew down the stairs. I always hated that term, like she was a bird flying free, but still tethered to the earth, her feet pounding hard on the stairs like she was beating them into submission”
― Emily Shiner, The Wife in the Photo

“Living in the same house as someone who doesn't love you any longer is a strange dance. It's like Evan and I have opposing magnetic fields in us, like we can't get too close without repelling each other”
― Emily Shiner, The Wife in the Photo

“A good wife would walk away from the phone because we all know that snooping in your significant other's messages is a great way to feel terrible about yourself or stir up problems, but the problems were already stirred up, weren't they? How in the world could me looking at his phone cause any additional issues?”
― Emily Shiner, The Wife in the Photo

“That's the thing about teenagers - they don't need to verbally express their disappointment for everyone to know how they're feeling. Instead, it oozes out of them, creating an aura around them, something so physical that it feels like you should be able to reach out and touch it”
― Emily Shiner, The Wife in the Photo

“It should be poetic. It would be poetic, but it's so trite, so overused. There's nothing poetic about death, nothing attractive about the way a body looks when it has gasped out its last breath and drawn nothing in”
― Emily Shiner, The Wife in the Photo