The Marriage Lie Quotes

“Dread begins to burrow under my skin like a parasite, slow and steady, eating away at my certainty.”
― Kimberly Belle, The Marriage Lie

“When you know what to look for, spotting a lie is pretty easy. You see it in the fidgets and sudden head movements or sometimes, when the person is overcompensating, through no movements at all. In how their breathing changes, or how they provide too much information, repeating phrases and offering up irrelevant details. In the way they shuffle their feet or touch their mouths or put a hand to their throats. It’s basic psychology, physical signals that the body doesn’t agree with the words coming out of its mouth.”
― Kimberly Belle, The Marriage Lie

“There’s a sucker born every minute out of heartache.”
― Kimberly Belle, The Marriage Lie

“You aren’t gullible, honey. You were deceived by the man you loved. There’s a big difference.”
― Kimberly Belle, The Marriage Lie

“Technology lies by design because it is created and controlled by humans. There are bugs. There are crashes. There are false positives and false negatives, too”
― Kimberly Belle, The Marriage Lie

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― Kimberly Belle, The Marriage Lie

“College taught me to be a feminist, but marriage has taught me to be practical.”
― Kimberly Belle, The Marriage Lie

“Good morning, this is Shefali Majumdar speaking.” Except for her name, Shefali sounds as American as apple pie. Her voice is smooth and pleasant, without the slightest trace of an accent I can detect,”
― Kimberly Belle, The Marriage Lie

“Orlando. “Yes.” I clutch my stomach with an arm. “I’m his”
― Kimberly Belle, The Marriage Lie

“But he also knows I teach my students to move past their baggage by becoming accountable. I teach them responsibility for their own actions and behaviors, to follow the rules and live up to expectations.”
― Kimberly Belle, The Marriage Lie

“Narcissists are masters at manipulation, and though his silence says he’s listening, his movements are preoccupied. His eyes scan the windows, and his body draws in on itself, like a rattlesnake coiling to spring.”
― Kimberly Belle, The Marriage Lie

“Narcissists love to play the victim.”
― Kimberly Belle, The Marriage Lie

“Corban’s narcissistic personality disorder is textbook. A grandiose sense of self, a preoccupation with power and success, an outrageous sense of entitlement and a distinct lack of empathy.”
― Kimberly Belle, The Marriage Lie

“Love and sacrifice. Honesty. Trust. We see what we want to see. We gather information, use it or ignore it to shape our own beliefs, to make our own choices, to withhold love or to give it freely.”
― Kimberly Belle, The Marriage Lie

“The more messed up the parents, the more messed up the kid.”
― Kimberly Belle, The Marriage Lie

“College taught me to be a feminist, but marriage has taught me to be practical”
― Kimberly Belle, The Marriage Lie

“Corban’s narcissistic personality disorder is textbook. A grandiose sense of self, a preoccupation with power and success, an outrageous sense of entitlement and a distinct lack of empathy. The symptoms are all there. In his manic state, he’s no longer bothering to disguise any of them.”
― Kimberly Belle, The Marriage Lie

“Hancock High School is a massive complex of brick and mortar in Seattle’s Central District, a downtown neighborhood on the confused end of gentrification. It’s a neighborhood with multiple personality disorder—housing projects on one block, hulking renovated Victorians on another, boarded-up convenience stores on the next.”
― Kimberly Belle, The Marriage Lie

“I could very well be pregnant already. “Most people give wool or copper for their seventh anniversary. You gave me sperm.”
― Kimberly Belle, The Marriage Lie

“also knows I teach my students to move past their baggage by becoming accountable. I teach them responsibility for their own actions and behaviors, to follow the rules and live up to expectations.”
― Kimberly Belle, The Marriage Lie

“College taught me to be a feminist, but marriage has taught me to be practical. Making lasagna is so much more pleasant than cleaning the gutters.”
― Kimberly Belle, The Marriage Lie

“My education has taught me to see nature and nurture as equal propositions, but my job has taught me nurture wins out every time. Especially when it’s lacking. The more messed up the parents, the more messed up the kid. It’s really that simple.”
― Kimberly Belle, The Marriage Lie

“have splurged on a better ride? Or, hell, I don’t know, bought himself a wallet that wasn’t held together with duct tape?” “He splurged on jewelry.” “Please. The only jewelry he ever wore was the wedding ring you bought him. And before you say anything, his watch doesn’t count. I’m pretty sure that thing was made of plastic.” “For me.” I twist my hand around, and the Cartier winks in the sunshine. “He splurged on jewelry for me.” Corban’s smile drops like a guillotine. “That ring doesn’t prove a thing. Will didn’t like to spend money on himself, but he would gladly spend it on you. He probably saved up for months, or maybe he financed it. Doesn’t matter. The point is, he had a good job. He did well enough”
― Kimberly Belle, The Marriage Lie

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― Kimberly Belle, The Marriage Lie

“Children are the product of their parents, and crappy or nonexistent parenting skills load down a child with baggage that’s no fault of their own. I’ve said it often enough that Will knows I believe this to be true. He knows I won’t think less of him”
― Kimberly Belle, The Marriage Lie

“Grief, after all, is a solitary venture.”
― Kimberly Belle, The Marriage Lie

“Why do they call it grief, when really it’s a whole gamut of awful emotions, confusion and regret and anger and guilt and loneliness, wrapped up into one little word?”
― Kimberly Belle, The Marriage Lie

“Whoever said God doesn’t give you more than you can handle was full of shit, because this—this grief that slams me over and over like a Mack truck, this weight of missing Will that presses down on all sides until I can’t breathe—is going to kill me.”
― Kimberly Belle, The Marriage Lie

“The inertia is as thick and sticky as flypaper.”
― Kimberly Belle, The Marriage Lie

“That smile of his whenever I came into the room, the one that no one else ever got but me.”
― Kimberly Belle, The Marriage Lie