Homewrecker Quotes

“accountability and identity weren’t the same thing.”
― Netra Antionette, Homewrecker

“names other people gave you didn’t have to become the ones you answered to.”
― Netra Antionette, Homewrecker

“Home was truth. Home was peace. Home was disagreement without deception. Home was knowing that if something became broken, both people could look directly at the crack instead of finding someone else to hide inside.”
― Netra Antionette, Homewrecker

“For years, I had treated milestones like proof. Ring meant chosen. Marriage meant worthy. Baby meant family. A man coming home meant love. I didn’t need proof anymore. I had peace and that felt better.”
― Netra Antionette, Homewrecker

“Peace isn’t the absence of a painful history. It’s being able to remember it without having to live there.”
― Netra Antionette, Homewrecker

“You cannot control the story people tell about you. You can only control whether you keep giving them new chapters that support it.”
― Netra Antionette, Homewrecker

“Loving someone requires accepting that you cannot control the outcome.”
― Netra Antionette, Homewrecker

“What I’m saying is, don’t turn me staying into proof that you’re worthy. You can’t keep letting other people’s choices decide how you feel about yourself. People leaving doesn’t prove you’re bad and me staying doesn’t prove you’re good. You have to know who the fuck you are without either one.”
― Netra Antionette, Homewrecker

“Reality hurt, so I stopped living there. I built somewhere prettier inside my head and moved in permanently.”
― Netra Antionette, Homewrecker

“mistakes are not identities.”
― Netra Antionette, Homewrecker

“stop acting shocked when chaos behaves like chaos.”
― Netra Antionette, Homewrecker

“I think making a decision that you know people might judge you for because you believe it’s the healthiest decision for you takes courage.”
― Netra Antionette, Homewrecker

“You don’t owe anybody permanent misery because something in your past went bad.”
― Netra Antionette, Homewrecker

“I immediately felt like shit because Nash was comforting a version of me he didn’t fully know.”
― Netra Antionette, Homewrecker

“My heart opened so quickly to him that it embarrassed me. “You do?” “Yeah.”
― Netra Antionette, Homewrecker

“Yeah.”
― Netra Antionette, Homewrecker

“Accountability wasn’t supposed to mean I could never enjoy anything again.”
― Netra Antionette, Homewrecker

“Sometimes people communicate every day and still aren’t telling each other anything real.” He continued. “Once trust is gone, communication becomes a performance.”
― Netra Antionette, Homewrecker

“Sometimes people communicate every day and still aren’t telling each other anything real.”
― Netra Antionette, Homewrecker

“They’re grown. That’s their marriage, and stop letting their dysfunction become yours.”
― Netra Antionette, Homewrecker

“Healing is ghetto.”
― Netra Antionette, Homewrecker

“My daddy hugged me longer than usual but didn’t apologize because men like my father had spent their whole lives believing love could sometimes stand in for accountability.”
― Netra Antionette, Homewrecker

“If I took this family seriously, I’d need Blair’s therapist.”
― Netra Antionette, Homewrecker

“I’d learned early that love and betrayal could live in the same house, sleep in the same bed, raise the same children, and sit at the same dinner table and pass a fucking bowl of grits around to share.”
― Netra Antionette, Homewrecker

“The strangest part was that there had been so much love in that house. That’s what people never understood about dysfunctional families. It didn’t have to be miserable every day for something to damage you.”
― Netra Antionette, Homewrecker

“There had been no reason to think otherwise, so I didn’t.”
― Netra Antionette, Homewrecker

“That was the thing about lies… The best ones didn’t always require words. Sometimes all someone had to do was leave an empty space in the conversation and let you fill it with whatever made the most sense to you.”
― Netra Antionette, Homewrecker

“What bothered me was how easily he’d become a man with a past while I had become a woman with a definition. Caleb had cheated, but I was a homewrecker. Caleb had made a mistake, but I was a mistake women needed to protect their marriages from.”
― Netra Antionette, Homewrecker

“wouldn’t even fuck him with his wife’s pussy, but telling his wife that probably wouldn’t help my reputation.”
― Netra Antionette, Homewrecker