After the Wedding Quotes

“There is no point getting angry at a bad hand, he had used to say. Especially if the dealer cheated when distributing the cards. Anger leads to mistakes. Don’t get angry; that’s what they want. Get calm. They’ll never expect you to do that. Don’t get angry; get creative. Take the hand you have and see whether you might not be holding something your enemy has overlooked. Don’t get angry at the cards; get the dealer out of the game.”
― Courtney Milan, After the Wedding

“We're all self-serving.' Camilla shrugged. 'It's just a matter of what we do to others in service of ourselves.”
― Courtney Milan, After the Wedding

“They said that hell had no fury like a woman scorned, but they were wrong. Women were scorned again and again and again. It was only after the seventieth scorning that they let loose a fraction of their righteous anger. Frankly, men had no idea how lucky they were that any woman was rational at all.”
― Courtney Milan, After the Wedding

“We’re all self-serving.” Camilla shrugged. “It’s just a matter of what we do to others in service of ourselves.”
― Courtney Milan, After the Wedding

“You need a sympathetic ear and a real conversation. Sometimes the only way to find the route forward is to grumble about all the paths that have closed.”
― Courtney Milan, After the Wedding

“Hope is not weak. It takes courage to hope and hope and hope, when nothing comes out right. It takes strength to continue to believe that this time everything will come out right when it’s always gone wrong before. You are not weak.”
― Courtney Milan, After the Wedding

“We’re women, dear. It’s not an easy world for us, if we lie to ourselves”
― Courtney Milan, After the Wedding

“I believe you because you were kind. I believe you because you did come back. I believe you because holding onto my hopes, however irrational they are, is better than the alternative, which is horrid. You don’t need to convince me. Just—please. Don’t disappoint me.”
― Courtney Milan, After the Wedding

“They thought we were expendable. They were wrong. Before we’re done, they’ll know that. “Say it,” the rector said. They don’t know who I am, but before I’m finished, they will.”
― Courtney Milan, After the Wedding

“She tried not to judge—a little bit—but alas. That would no doubt be engraved on her tombstone: Camilla tried to be good, but not for very long.”
― Courtney Milan, After the Wedding

“Hope was forever beckoning, and having allowed herself to hope for so little, she had believed that surely she could not be disappointed. It just went to show: Fate had a sense of humor, and she was a capricious bitch.”
― Courtney Milan, After the Wedding

“His uncle had provided Adrian with some incredibly valuable lessons in how English society functioned. One of those lessons was that being married to the wrong person was worse than being dead.”
― Courtney Milan, After the Wedding