The Unwanted Wife Quotes

“I'm your husband...”
“No. You are not my husband,” she interrupted in a voice thickened with hatred and tears. “You have never been my husband. A husband loves, honours and cherishes! A husband is a lover and a champion... Look into the next room if you want to see what a real husband is, because you are no such thing!”
― Natasha Anders, The Unwanted Wife

“Chemistry was a terrible thing, sometimes it simply sparked between the wrong people”
― Natasha Anders, The Unwanted Wife

“Wife trumps all.”
― Natasha Anders, The Unwanted Wife

“Suddenly it felt like there was a ticking time bomb in the house. I didn’t have all the time in the world to make you love me again; I had only a few short months.”
― Natasha Anders, The Unwanted Wife

“I told you before, I don’t want out of this marriage. And if you give me nothing but daughters for the next twenty years, I would consider myself blessed.”
― Natasha Anders, The Unwanted Wife

“It’s like putting a band-aid on an amputation!”
― Natasha Anders, The Unwanted Wife

“All the air suddenly seemed to leave his sails and his shoulders sagged as he dropped to his knees in front of her,bringing his eyes down to the same level as hers."I want to be here with you. Why is that so hard for you to understand?”
― Natasha Anders, The Unwanted Wife

“A year ago… Eighteen months ago even but not now! Don’t you realise that this is too little too late?” She shook her head in frustration. “It’s like putting a band-aid on an amputation!”
― Natasha Anders, The Unwanted Wife

“I won’t leave you. What if you have another contraction? What if your water breaks and they rush you into the delivery room? What if there are complications?” He asked hoarsely, his eyes dilating more with each anxious question. And Theresa rolled her eyes in exasperation.

“I doubt any of those things will happen in the two minutes it would take you to leave the room and get a cup of coffee, Sandro,” she sighed impatiently.”
― Natasha Anders, The Unwanted Wife

“Go out, get wasted, bang a bimbo.”
― Natasha Anders, The Unwanted Wife

“The only reason you brought me here tonight was because you thought it would appease me. Throw the vicious dog a bone and it’ll soon be eating out of your hand!”

“More like vicious bitch,” he muttered beneath his breath and when he realised that she had heard him, he shrugged unrepentantly. “If you’re going to be using animal metaphors, you may as well get it right.”

“Fine, I’m a bitch… whatever!” She knew her response was childish but she was feeling more than a little put out by the situation.”
― Natasha Anders, The Unwanted Wife

“Give the woman what she wants and maybe her rebellion will subside and she will get down to the business of being a human incubator!”
― Natasha Anders, The Unwanted Wife

“Unfortunately, much like a car accident, she could see it coming but couldn’t seem to find a way to prevent the inevitable disaster from occurring.”
― Natasha Anders, The Unwanted Wife

“How the hell am I supposed to respect someone who sold herself to the highest bidder?" he growled with tight control, and she gasped, stung. "I have no respect for you, Theresa, not even as the potential mother of my child, because, quite frankly, you can't even do that right.”
― Natasha Anders, The Unwanted Wife

“don’t want her! Those are feelings reserved for you…only for you.” His voice deepened”
― Natasha Anders, The Unwanted Wife

“what the specifics of that loan were, but she had always assumed that it was done out of generosity. Staring up at him now, she couldn’t believe her own naïveté. Sandro did nothing out of sheer generosity, and that loan was merely another weapon for him to use against her. “You wouldn’t,” she responded. “Lisa has done nothing to deserve this.” “Cara, I will do whatever it takes to get what I want from you.” “I have money too, I can help her…” she began desperately. “No, you have a rich father, and he had the opportunity to help Lisa, but he made his contempt of the idea more than obvious to everyone at the time, and you know that he would never support you through a messy divorce, Theresa.” “I still don’t believe you would do it! You have a reputation to uphold. You’re an honest businessman, and you wouldn’t destroy a small business just to prove a point. What kind of message would that send?” she asked. “That I’m not to be trifled with.” He shrugged. “Do you honestly think I”
― Natasha Anders, The Unwanted Wife

“Yes, I’m feeling sorry for myself,” she acknowledged bitterly. “And it’s very liberating. In the past all I’ve done is accept everything you and my father dished out…thinking it was my lot in life, even thinking I deserved it. After all, if two such powerful men as you thought that I wasn’t worthy of love and respect, then who was I to differ? But I’m starting to recognize that I’m not the one at fault here.”
― Natasha Anders, The Unwanted Wife

“maybe…the woman who replaced the girl could find a way to love the flawed man she’d once placed on a pedestal he had no business being on?”
― Natasha Anders, The Unwanted Wife

“You know what it’s like when you have an overwhelming urge to scrape the touch, the smell, the very essence of someone off your skin, don’t you? After all, that’s what you usually do thirty seconds after your orgasm, and I can finally relate to that.”
― Natasha Anders, The Unwanted Wife

“The one thing I’d wanted above all else in the beginning was now a noose around my throat, tightening with every passing day.”
― Natasha Anders, The Unwanted Wife

“You don’t love me? No news there. You’re in love with someone else? Again: old news…”
― Natasha Anders, The Unwanted Wife

“With a father who felt nothing for him, a mother who didn’t want to get pregnant, and a megalomaniacal grandfather waiting in the wings, it’s probably best that the last one didn’t make it”
― Natasha Anders, The Unwanted Wife

“Except love, specifically my husband’s love and my father’s love. Apparently I’m not quite worthy of that.”
― Natasha Anders, The Unwanted Wife

“She had valiantly believed that if she loved him enough, he would go back to being the laughing, affectionate man she had known in the first few months after they had met.”
― Natasha Anders, The Unwanted Wife

“I have no respect for you, Theresa, not even as the potential mother of my child, because, quite frankly, you can’t even do that right.”
― Natasha Anders, The Unwanted Wife

“You have never been my husband. A husband loves, honors, and cherishes. A husband is a lover and a champion. Look into the next room if you want to see what a real husband is, because you are no such thing!”
― Natasha Anders, The Unwanted Wife

“Chemistry was a terrible thing, sometimes it simply sparked
between the wrong people.
“I need a shower,” she whispered bitterly. “You know what it’s like when
you have an overwhelming urge to scrape the touch, the scent, the very essence
of someone off of your skin, don’t you? After all, that’s what you usually do
thirty seconds after your orgasm and I can finally relate to that” She turned and
left the room before he had the opportunity to respond.”
― Natasha Anders, The Unwanted Wife

“All the air suddenly seemed to leave his sails and his shoulders sagged as he dropped to his knees in front of her, bringing his eyes down to the same level as hers. "I want to be here with you. . . why is that so hard for you to understand?" His voice had dropped down to a whisper. His eyes suddenly, shockingly, filled with moisture which he made no attempt to hide from her and he muttered something in Italian, his voice thick with emotion.”
― Natasha Anders, The Unwanted Wife