The Deep End Quotes

“None of this was part of the plan all the girls I'd grown up with had been given. Not a written plan, unless the book about Cinderella counted. The plan was in the water we drank, the air we breathed. It was poured into the pavement on the streets we called home. Marry a nice man, one who was a good provider, and live happily, or at least comfortably, ever after.

Safe to say I'd followed the plan. I'd married a banker. Had a baby. But the plan had failed me. It left me alone huddled in a window seat with every emotion I'd refused to let myself feel seeping through my pores until the air in my bedroom was heavy with sadness and angst and confusion. (p. 235)”
― Julie Mulhern, The Deep End

“(About a woman's funeral) Do you remember the part in The Wizard of Oz when the witch is dead and the Munchkins start singing? Think that kind of happiness. I swear every woman there was ready to break into song. Maybe a few of the men, too. (p. 80)”
― Julie Mulhern, The Deep End

“I have a teenage daughter, a mother with strong opinions, a Weimaraner named Max who plots to take over our house on his path toward world domination, and a husband.”
― Julie Mulhern, The Deep End

“My morning swim doesn’t usually involve corpses.”
― Julie Mulhern, The Deep End

“I clutched a pillow to my chest, stared into the darkness and wished I didn’t know what I did. But, once bitten, Eve’s apple cannot be returned to the tree. It hardly seemed fair. I hadn’t plucked the damn fruit. I’d had it shoved into my hands then down my throat.”
― Julie Mulhern, The Deep End