Wife Project Quotes

“I’m twenty-three,” she says firmly. “That’s not that young.” “It is when you’re thirty-six.”
― Chloe Maine, Wife Project

“You really do have a dirty mouth when you’re turned on, huh?” “You should hear my thoughts.”
― Chloe Maine, Wife Project

“Clover isn’t leaving this apartment—isn’t putting on that dress again—until she agrees to be my fiancée, for real. And the only negotiating tool I can reach for at the moment is my deep, year-long craving to make her feel good. The kind of good that was off-limits until she called me darling. Now nothing else matters.”
― Chloe Maine, Wife Project

“Clover isn’t leaving this apartment—isn’t putting on that dress again—until she agrees to be my fiancée, for real. And the only negotiating tool I can reach for at the moment is my deep, year-long craving to make her feel good.”
― Chloe Maine, Wife Project

“I would never joke about something as serious as your pleasure,” I promise her.”
― Chloe Maine, Wife Project

“I swallow the last of my drink and turn to follow, bracing myself for that first, annoying glimpse of Andrew gripping his fiancée Heather a little too tightly to his side like she’s a virility badge of honor.”
― Chloe Maine, Wife Project

“I hear a muffled but still clearly exasperated greeting from my boss to his co-founder. They started this business together in college, and it’s grown into a multinational firm with offices on three continents. Rufus is happiest when Andrew is on one of the other two continents.”
― Chloe Maine, Wife Project

“I’m supposed to be on top of things in this office. I’d like to be on top of Rufus. That is never going to happen. So I’ll have to settle for making him happy in the limited, non-naked ways I can imagine.”
― Chloe Maine, Wife Project

“I wonder if my feelings are stunningly obvious. Probably have been since day one, when I was assigned to his desk by central Human Resources. Before I arrived, Rufus Newton Smith, half of the brains behind Braxton Newton Smith Enterprises, churned through assistants like they were made of tissue paper. I was warned I wouldn’t last more than a week, and then I would get placed elsewhere in the company. It’s been eleven months and he’s never barked at me once.”
― Chloe Maine, Wife Project

“Get a grip, Clover. Can’t help it, though. I have a crush on my boss, a hopeless, one-sided crush,”
― Chloe Maine, Wife Project

“Please hold for a moment and I’ll transfer you to Mr. Newton Smith.”
― Chloe Maine, Wife Project

“BNSE started as an eco-friendly, producer-driven import/export company inspired by a backpacking trip Andrew and I took”
― Chloe Maine, Wife Project

“Clover?”
― Chloe Maine, Wife Project

“Call me Rufus,” he said the first day I started to work for him. And I do—to his face. But I really quite like calling him Mr. Newton Smith to everyone else when I can. It has a lovely formality to it that makes me sit up a little straighter in my chair.”
― Chloe Maine, Wife Project