Reader, I Married Him Quotes

“Oh, I was lucky, you know, to get anyone. I was what they called an old bride of twenty-six. Of course I married him. Everyone needs to keep something private from their family.

Like a shutter in a rainstorm, banging against the window, I venture forth, retreat back, try afresh, retreat again. Nothing changes in my life and yet nothing is the same.

That did not help, Ed knew as the words hung between them and he had that all-too-familiar sensation of wanting to claw them from the air and stuff them back in his mouth.

We were all in small pieces that didn't fit together, too many countries, too many scars, too many secrets inside us.

How do you make a stranger so intimate when they could easily destroy you?”
― Tracy Chevalier, Reader, I Married Him: Original Stories by Acclaimed Women Writers Celebrating Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre

“I stood in bars, clothed but naked, looking from their eyes to my feet and back again. Still there was the longing to contend with: the heavy, bloody, chemical urge to consume another body and spit out its bones in a new child. How do you make a stranger so intimate when they could so easily destroy you?”
― Nadifa Mohamed, Reader, I Married Him: Original Stories by Acclaimed Women Writers Celebrating Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre