The Substitute Bride Quotes

“thoughts. “Marly,” her mother said firmly. “You know the longer you wait to emerge, the harder it will be.”  Marly touched her temple, her head beginning to pound. A lecture was inevitable. The virtue of facing down your problems. The futility of denial. The shame of surrendering to weakness, fear, fatigue.”
― Kathleen O'Brien, The Substitute Bride

“newsroom walls, as if something in the history of Marietta—the copper boom, the copper bust, the near-escape from becoming a ghost town—could help her. “If you leave a void,” Angelina continued slowly, her enunciation crisp and formal, as always, “people will inevitably fill it with gossip. Every hour you don’t show”
― Kathleen O'Brien, The Substitute Bride

“almost everything—her mother, the job, the town, and especially Drake Everett, the cocky, gorgeous jock who broke her heart in high school. I hope you enjoy her story—and all the other Montana Born stories, especially the Great Wedding”
― Kathleen O'Brien, The Substitute Bride

“once upon a time—confining you too much, defining you all wrong, reminding you of a million little wounds you’d rather forget—can suddenly fit as perfectly as a glass slipper. For the Marly Akers, the heroine of THE SUBSTITUTE BRIDE, Marietta, Montana, is just such a place.  Nine years ago she left the small town, and her mother’s iron-fisted”
― Kathleen O'Brien, The Substitute Bride

“permission”
― Kathleen O'Brien, The Substitute Bride

“all wrong, reminding you of a million little wounds you’d rather forget—can suddenly fit as perfectly as a glass slipper. For the Marly Akers, the heroine of THE SUBSTITUTE BRIDE, Marietta, Montana, is just such a place.  Nine years ago she left the small town, and her mother’s iron-fisted control, in the dust.  But now that her life has been upended by a series of spectacular failures, she’s forced to come home to heal. Working for her”
― Kathleen O'Brien, The Substitute Bride

“doesn’t mean it isn’t worth the trip.  Even a place that was miserable”
― Kathleen O'Brien, The Substitute Bride

“on a town. After much research, he’d decided the peak in”
― Kathleen O'Brien, The Substitute Bride

“Marly Akers had believed that, for better or worse,”
― Kathleen O'Brien, The Substitute Bride