My Husband, My Friend Quotes

“Since he had no happy, sentimental memories of his childhood, he felt always at odds with the world”
― Neile Adams McQueen, My Husband, My Friend: A Memoir

“1970, someone repeated to him something that Karl Wallenda of the Flying Wallendas had said: “Life is walking on the wire; the rest is waiting in the wings.”
― Neile Adams McQueen, My Husband, My Friend: A Memoir

“I still loved him with all my heart. And I expected I always would. But there was a difference this time around. I knew I was no longer in love with him, and somehow I felt stronger for that knowledge. Yet I believed, and always will, that I owe much of what I am today to him. Our strong history together was unerasable.”
― Neile Adams McQueen, My Husband, My Friend: A Memoir

“What I know is that marriages go on longer than marriages, and two people who’ve shared a lot of years can’t become unrelated even if they want to, and often as not, they don’t want to.”
― Neile Adams McQueen, My Husband, My Friend: A Memoir