Husbands & Lovers Quotes

“I think every day about how we’re all here because of a series of little miracles we know nothing about. The miracles that brought me right here, sitting in this chair beside you. What they sacrificed so I could live.”
― Beatriz Williams, Husbands & Lovers

“I think every day about how we’re all here because of a series of little miracles we know nothing about.”
― Beatriz Williams, Husbands & Lovers

“Every exchange between human beings is a bargain of some kind. Actual treasure or moral treasure, it’s all the same. You agree on your price and make the transaction.”
― Beatriz Williams, Husbands & Lovers

“How you start out with all these paths, all these choices. And then you realize that once you choose one path, you can’t go back. You think about all the paths you could have taken and didn’t.”
― Beatriz Williams, Husbands & Lovers

“For me, what happens on social media is like a tree falling in a forest on the other side of the world. Besides, ignorance is bliss.”
― Beatriz Williams, Husbands & Lovers

“Who filled an old jam jar with fireflies the night before he left for camp and told me he figured the lights came from all your ancestors in heaven, keeping watch over you.”
― Beatriz Williams, Husbands & Lovers

“It’s important to know where you came from,” she says. “It’s a part of you. But it doesn’t have to define you. They give you the paper and ink, but you write the story yourself.”
― Beatriz Williams, Husbands & Lovers

“Men fall over themselves for a beautiful woman, women fall over themselves for a rich man. So who’s the more greedy? At least money is useful. And it doesn’t fade with time.”
― Beatriz Williams, Husbands & Lovers

“I remember thinking how strange it was to feel sad in the middle of so much happiness, how you couldn’t just experience joy all by itself without feeling as if you had somehow stolen it from somewhere else. That there was only so much joy in the world.”
― Beatriz Williams, Husbands & Lovers

“Sorry if that sounds a little primal. Men are Neanderthals, what can I say.”
― Beatriz Williams, Husbands & Lovers

“for some reason that grin lasts a second or two longer than it should, the gaze holds a second or two longer than it should, and (as you probably know) a gaze that lasts a whole couple seconds might as well last for an hour. It feels the same, like someone lit a torch to your nerves.”
― Beatriz Williams, Husbands & Lovers

“her?”
― Beatriz Williams, Husbands & Lovers

“Music was the only thing that saved me,”
― Beatriz Williams, Husbands & Lovers

“we connected at this deep, honest level, the way we always had, like drinking from a well when you’re dying of thirst,”
― Beatriz Williams, Husbands & Lovers

“I suppose, when your parents fail you, you either go to pieces or you become the grown-up you require. Or maybe Monk is just that kind of extraordinary boy who would’ve thrived wherever you planted him.”
― Beatriz Williams, Husbands & Lovers

“Irregardless—” “That’s not a word, damn it!”
― Beatriz Williams, Husbands & Lovers