Best Kept Vows Quotes

“Let him shout at the ghosts.”
― Maya Alden, Best Kept Vows

“I knew she wouldn’t cheat, but I didn’t think I could stand it if she were even attracted to him.”
― Maya Alden, Best Kept Vows

“You’re not allowed to be with other men. This ain’t Friends, and we’re not on a break.” I giggled. “Define be.”
― Maya Alden, Best Kept Vows

“And all this in just fifty-five fucking minutes!”
― Maya Alden, Best Kept Vows

“I’d spent my life trying to impress a man who was about to become a memory. What a fucking waste!”
― Maya Alden, Best Kept Vows

“I’d never been able to see the appeal of being a cougar but now, oh, yeah, I could so see it.”
― Maya Alden, Best Kept Vows

“grown-ass”
― Maya Alden, Best Kept Vows

“time for him to leave this world,”
― Maya Alden, Best Kept Vows

“It made me realize that I had lost touch with you and my father. I’d…lost touch with myself.”
― Maya Alden, Best Kept Vows

“I’m sorry, baby. I didn’t know it was this bad.” I rubbed my chin on her hair. “I didn’t know how miserable I was.” Her voice was muffled with tears, and because she was burrowing into me. “But I was…I am.” I sucked in a shaky breath. “Do you…want a divorce?” It damn near killed me to wait for her answer. “No.” She looked at me, her eyes pleading. “I don’t want that, but I don’t want to…Sebastian, I need space.”
― Maya Alden, Best Kept Vows

“Lia was leaving me.”
― Maya Alden, Best Kept Vows

“I hated that I didn’t trust my husband, but I didn’t.”
― Maya Alden, Best Kept Vows

“he was drunk or sedated; I wasn’t sure which.”
― Maya Alden, Best Kept Vows

“I knew my husband; I knew what he was capable of, and fucking some woman who wasn’t me was not it.”
― Maya Alden, Best Kept Vows

“But the more I reflected on our marriage, the more I realized that I hadn’t told him how I felt because, deep down, I didn’t believe he’d listen. I didn’t think he cared”
― Maya Alden, Best Kept Vows

“this life we were living, separate but together, was death by a thousand cuts.”
― Maya Alden, Best Kept Vows

“Third, I’m not asking for your permission. I’m telling you since we live in the same house.” The way she said that got my hackles up even more. “Live in the same house? Like roommates?” “I think so. We hardly see each other. You’re never home, and now that I’ll be working, I’ll endeavor to never be home, either.”
― Maya Alden, Best Kept Vows

“Also, I didn’t find Jane attractive the way I did my wife. I wanted Lia.”
― Maya Alden, Best Kept Vows

“I didn’t shit where I ate.”
― Maya Alden, Best Kept Vows

“Careful, Sebastian, your old white man is showing,”
― Maya Alden, Best Kept Vows

“I also didn’t want to be around when Lia woke up.”
― Maya Alden, Best Kept Vows

“Did he not realize how often he disrespected me?”
― Maya Alden, Best Kept Vows

“but this man, who called something significant that happened to me today a silly little ceremony, wasn’t mine.”
― Maya Alden, Best Kept Vows

“Marriage vows meant nothing if there was no marriage—regardless of the legalities.”
― Maya Alden, Best Kept Vows

“there weren’t any fresh wounds left on my soul—because I was the wound. Raw. Exposed. So, when he said things meant to make me feel small, old scars didn’t just ache—they ripped open, bleeding all over again.”
― Maya Alden, Best Kept Vows

“was drowning in problems, and I really needed my family not to be one of them. They needed to get with the program, understand the pressure I was under, and support me, not add to my burden.”
― Maya Alden, Best Kept Vows

“due to his negligence and my inability to stand up for myself, I believed that now our marriage was in trouble as well.”
― Maya Alden, Best Kept Vows

“somewhere along the line, he stopped showing up for me altogether.”
― Maya Alden, Best Kept Vows

“Sebastian was always there for his parents and sister, regardless of whether the children or I needed him.”
― Maya Alden, Best Kept Vows

“I was a good society wife; I knew how to be polite to people I couldn't stand.”
― Maya Alden, Best Kept Vows