First Wife's Shadow Quotes

“guess that’s a money thing, the ultimate privilege of being rich: you get to believe in the fairy tale of fairness; you think people have the energy to do the right thing, when most of us just get by doing something.”
― Adele Parks, First Wife’s Shadow

“She had a grim power about her; despite being only five foot four, she had always seemed threatening, evil.”
― Adele Parks, First Wife’s Shadow

“Why was it that with everything to do with Becky he was left feeling like he was playing catch-up? She had lied to him. Again. Bitch. He did know that Susan”
― Adele Parks, First Wife’s Shadow

“It offends me that Matthew might think I’m the sort of person who would lose control to alcohol, be controlled by alcohol. I thought I could trust him with my thoughts, no matter how odd or intimate.”
― Adele Parks, First Wife’s Shadow

“You only have to consider Instagram and the blistering bouts of FOMO you get over people you don’t know – people you will never meet, who are not even having as good a time as they pretend to be having – to know that appearances can become the reality.”
― Adele Parks, First Wife’s Shadow

“Successful actors have to be either extremely lucky and connected or utterly relentless, ruthless and resilient. Mattie isn’t any of these things.”
― Adele Parks, First Wife’s Shadow

“You have a high-powered job, a lot of responsibility and stress; it’s not surprising you drink to relax. Maybe you should try to meditate or something. Forest bathing? I’ve heard that’s good for stress.”
― Adele Parks, First Wife’s Shadow

“I’ve always thought of it as restful, wholesome, open. Now the endless glass windows do not create a sense of opportunity and space, but instead make me feel vulnerable, exposed, like an insect under a microscope.”
― Adele Parks, First Wife’s Shadow

“years of thinking of my body as nothing more than an efficient vessel to get me from A to B, I now think of it as something much more lascivious and decadent. Something sexy and sexed up. I glow with the thought of pleasing and being pleasured.”
― Adele Parks, First Wife’s Shadow

“I was the sort to run a personal social media account to showcase my perfect life, I know I’d be able to post the most stunning little tiles to make our friends sigh with longing and envy.”
― Adele Parks, First Wife’s Shadow

“Misunderstandings between us pop up like mushrooms on a waterlogged field.”
― Adele Parks, First Wife’s Shadow

“Right now, I share with two postgrad students. It’s really not dignified at my age. I’m a bit embarrassed to take you there, frankly. I mean, I do my best to make it look presentable. I’m constantly fixing things.”
― Adele Parks, First Wife’s Shadow