The Dead Husband Cookbook Quotes

“When you no longer need your parents, you treat them the way they treated you when you were little.”
― Danielle Valentine, The Dead Husband Cookbook

“Murder, cannibalism, meatballs made of people.”
― Danielle Valentine, The Dead Husband Cookbook

“If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.”
― Danielle Valentine, The Dead Husband Cookbook

“Maybe it sounds like an overreaction to kill a man because of a few recipes.”
― Danielle Valentine, The Dead Husband Cookbook

“You keep my secrets and I’ll keep yours.”
― Danielle Valentine, The Dead Husband Cookbook

“I’ve always said recipes are like family. Even the best ones are hiding something.”
― Danielle Valentine, The Dead Husband Cookbook

“I know I’m not perfect”
― Danielle Valentine, The Dead Husband Cookbook

“But people like that expected mothers to be perfect. They would accept nothing less. Fathers were allowed to be complex”
― Danielle Valentine, The Dead Husband Cookbook

“becoming. I’d sacrificed everything for him. And he resented me for it.”
― Danielle Valentine, The Dead Husband Cookbook

“missed my husband. But I missed myself more. I missed the woman I’d been before I’d become a mother.”
― Danielle Valentine, The Dead Husband Cookbook

“loved my daughter more than anything. I adored our family. But I didn’t know how to be everything to them all the time.”
― Danielle Valentine, The Dead Husband Cookbook

“Motherhood had shifted something fundamental inside of me. I was like that paradox”
― Danielle Valentine, The Dead Husband Cookbook

“Our curse was that”
― Danielle Valentine, The Dead Husband Cookbook

“When you no longer need your parents”
― Danielle Valentine, The Dead Husband Cookbook

“Maybe it sounds like an overreaction to kill a man because of a few recipes. But you have to understand”
― Danielle Valentine, The Dead Husband Cookbook

“Over the years, I’d become an expert at knowing his mood the second I walked into any room he was in. I could smell it in the air, like too-strong cologne. What a strange and horrifying gift, to infect everyone around you with your emotions.”
― Danielle Valentine, The Dead Husband Cookbook

“was reminded of the iconic dramatic masks: smiling Thalia, the muse of comedy, and sobbing Melpomene, the muse of tragedy.”
― Danielle Valentine, The Dead Husband Cookbook

“But love could make fools of us all.”
― Danielle Valentine, The Dead Husband Cookbook

“I’ve spent most of my marriage plotting my husband’s death.”
― Danielle Valentine, The Dead Husband Cookbook

“The moment I saw you, I knew you were going to be last woman I would ever be with. I wasn’t ready for that yet.”
― Danielle Valentine, The Dead Husband Cookbook