My Husband's Wife Quotes

“The fact that you no longer have a right to grieve for someone you once shared your life with makes the pain even worse.  •”
― Jane Corry, My Husband's Wife

“There are times when you’ll find yourself swearing that blue is black. You’ll truly believe it yourself. We all do it. It’s not that lawyers lie. It’s that they twist the real facts to make another world that everyone else believes in, too. And who’s to say that won’t be a better world?”
― Jane Corry, My Husband's Wife

“When you’re constantly prepared for things to go wrong, it’s a shock when they go right.”
― Jane Corry, My Husband's Wife

“Sometimes you have to do something wrong before you can make things right.”
― Jane Corry, My Husband's Wife

“It occurred to me then, as it occurs to me frequently, that one never really knows a person properly. Especially ourselves.”
― Jane Corry, My Husband's Wife

“Well, we all want something better from time to time, Carla. But if we stopped to appreciate what we’ve got, the world might be a better place.”
― Jane Corry, My Husband's Wife

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― Jane Corry, My Husband's Wife

“Did you know that the average person produces enough saliva to fill two swimming pools during their life?”
― Jane Corry, My Husband's Wife

“the past is only a second ago. The present merely exists for a brief second before becoming history itself.”
― Jane Corry, My Husband's Wife

“So many questions without answers! But we all have layers of good and bad inside us. Of truth and deceit. However much we deny it.”
― Jane Corry, My Husband's Wife

“But that’s the problem with lies. As I said at the beginning, they start small. And then they multiply. So that the white lies become as black as the real thing.”
― Jane Corry, My Husband's Wife

“How is it possible to care for someone who had hurt you so badly?”
― Jane Corry, My Husband's Wife

“It’s an exhilarating feeling when someone gives you permission to break all rules—especially when that person is yourself.”
― Jane Corry, My Husband's Wife

“Marriages go through all kinds of ups and downs. But you can make them work.”
― Jane Corry, My Husband's Wife

“Coincidences are one of those things that sound contrived until they happen in real life.”
― Jane Corry, My Husband's Wife

“What we want and what we need in life are two very different things. But it takes death to put those two contenders into perspective. Right now, there’s only one thing I really want. To live.”
― Jane Corry, My Husband's Wife

“Love each day as if it were your last”
The words of the gym reach out to me. It’s a salutary reminder that the past is only a second ago.”
― Jane Corry, My Husband's Wife

“Or maybe we could be a pair of tourists staying at one of the hotels on the promenade, taking a stroll before breakfast.”
― Jane Corry, My Husband's Wife

“Just them and two witnesses off the street.”
― Jane Corry, My Husband's Wife

“But that’s the problem with lies. They start small. And the. They multiply. So that the white lies become as black as the real thing.”
― Jane Corry, My Husband's Wife

“Birth. Death. Two opposites that have more in common than we realize. Both are beginnings. Both are ends.”
― Jane Corry, My Husband's Wife

“It’s an exhilarating feeling when someone gives you permission to break all the rules - especially when that person is yourself.”
― Jane Corry, My Husband's Wife

“Live each day as if it were your last” The words of the hymn reach outs to me. It’s a salutary reminder that the past is only a second ago. The present merely exists for a brief second before becoming history itself.”
― Jane Corry, My Husband's Wife

“Who knows where blame really lies? It’s never as simple as it seems.”
― Jane Corry, My Husband's Wife

“You must let the past be the past.”
― Jane Corry, My Husband's Wife

“When a couple goes through a tragedy, they either become closer than before or drift apart.”
― Jane Corry, My Husband's Wife

“People show emotion in different ways. Who’s to say that the person who wails loudest is the most distressed?”
― Jane Corry , My Husband's Wife

“It strikes me that different people from various walks of life might be tending their gardens at precisely this moment all over the world.”
― Jane Corry, My Husband's Wife

“customer behind. It was getting dark now and she’d forgotten how much colder England was than Italy. Shivering and hungry, she asked directions from person after person in the crowds swarming past. Eventually she found it. Carla stared with distaste at the dirty concrete building with peeling green paint on the door. Two girls came out, arm in arm, wearing tights with big, glaring holes in them. Over the tights were denim shorts. Smoothing down the neat cream linen jacket that Mamma had made specially for the trip, Carla went in. “I have booked a room,” she said politely”
― Jane Corry, My Husband's Wife

“The fact that you no longer have a right to grieve for someone you once shared your life with makes the pain even worse.”
― Jane Corry, My Husband's Wife