The Headmaster's Wife Quotes

“And she thinks perhaps that is what love is: letting someone else see that part of you that shatters like glass...They will grow old together, broken together, and as long as they both don't completely shatter at the same time, they might find a way to pick each other off the ground.”
― Thomas Christopher Greene, The Headmaster's Wife

“I used to think that all marriages ran the same trajectory. They start with wanting to climb inside the other person and wear her skin as your own. They end with thinking that if the person across from you says another word, you will put a fork in her neck.”
― Thomas Christopher Greene, The Headmaster's Wife

“She considers the past. She measures it and weighs it and holds it in her hand like a plum. The past is everything now, and she understands that this is what it means to be dying: You stop looking forward, instead living for moments that happened years before.”
― Thomas Christopher Greene, The Headmaster's Wife

“Make sure your children live longer than you do. Do that and you've really done something, okay? The rest is filler”
― Thomas Christopher Greene, The Headmaster's Wife

“What? She won't graduate because she can't swim the length of a pool? Really? Is this a serious academic position for a serious academic place?”
― Thomas Christopher Greene, The Headmaster's Wife