The Secret Wife Quotes

“London and New York, and the hire car’s Sat Nav told her she had driven 252 miles since leaving the airport. A whole ocean and half a state lay between her and Tom. She should have been upset but instead she felt numb. Back in the UK it was four-thirty on a Sunday afternoon and she wondered what Tom was doing, then grimaced as she pictured him pottering around the house in his jogging bottoms and t-shirt. He would no doubt have called her closest friends, all innocence, asking if they knew where she was. How long would it take him to work out she had flown to America to look for the lakeside cabin she’d inherited from her great-”
― Gill Paul, The Secret Wife

“To feel that another human being truly understood the core of you and loved what they saw, while you felt the same about them – that was the best feeling of all. In”
― Gill Paul, The Secret Wife

“The girls were always trying to rope me in to their games, dressing me in costumes and making me perform in their plays. You have no idea how character-forming it is for a young boy to be forced to wear a wig and gown and have his cheeks rouged!”
― Gill Paul, The Secret Wife

“Each expressed whatever was on his or her mind at the moment and it flowed back and forth in a fast-moving current of companionship.”
― Gill Paul, The Secret Wife

“supporting each other as they succumbed to the ailments and indignities of old age and”
― Gill Paul, The Secret Wife

“This was one of the extraordinary things about a close relationship: it was possible for your partner to know you better than you knew yourself.”
― Gill Paul, The Secret Wife

“After that she changed the subject: Did”
― Gill Paul, The Secret Wife

“rescued her the rest of her family might still be alive, but”
― Gill Paul, The Secret Wife

“without”
― Gill Paul, The Secret Wife

“She sighed, sounding blissfully happy. ‘I am going over the priest’s prayers in my head. I never want to forget a single detail of this night. No grand state wedding could ever compare to the beautiful simplicity of the promises we have made.”
― Gill Paul, The Secret Wife

“America had welcomed him with open arms and he hoped their constitution and ethnic mix would prevent any extreme political parties taking power as they had in Russia and Germany.”
― Gill Paul, The Secret Wife

“Kitty drove to the vacation park coffeehouse for the second time that day and opened her laptop to search for Russian to English translators. There was one called Vera Quigley in the town of Gloversville, about seventy miles away. She called and made an appointment to drop by the following afternoon.”
― Gill Paul, The Secret Wife

“to leave Tobolsk”
― Gill Paul, The Secret Wife

“away.”
― Gill Paul, The Secret Wife

“Back in the UK it was four-thirty on a Sunday afternoon and she wondered what Tom was doing, then grimaced as she pictured him pottering around the house in his jogging bottoms and t-shirt. He would no doubt have called her closest friends, all innocence, asking if they knew where she was. How long would it take him to work out she had flown to America to look for the lakeside cabin she’d inherited from her great-grandfather? She”
― Gill Paul, The Secret Wife

“a male character ponders why his relationship is so different twenty years down the line; the dynamic has changed, the power base has shifted. And he realises that as his own position in life has changed, it has skewed the way he views his partner.”
― Gill Paul, The Secret Wife

“Kitty saw a dancing point of light in the direction he indicated. She hadn’t considered anyone might be watching through binoculars and flushed to”
― Gill Paul, The Secret Wife

“It was twenty-nine hours since Kitty Fisher had left her husband and in that time she had travelled 3,713 miles. The in-flight magazine had said there were 3,461 miles between London and New York, and the hire car’s Sat Nav told her”
― Gill Paul, The Secret Wife

“Civil War, including the disappearance of his wife,”
― Gill Paul, The Secret Wife

“Alexandra and Nicholas in the centre and little Alexei in front. 21st November 1914. Had tea at home with Mama [we] four, and Malama sweetheart was [here]. [Was] awfully glad to see him. And we said goodbye as he is going to the front soon. If Dmitri and Tatiana corresponded while he was at the front, the letters have not survived. A year and a half later, once he had returned to Tsarskoe Selo, Alexandra wrote of him to Tsar Nicholas: ‘He had matured, though still a lovely boy. I have to admit, he would make an excellent son-in-law. Why are foreign princes not like him?’ Had it not been for the Revolution, there is a good chance Malama and Tatiana could have married: Malama’s family were part of Russia’s old nobility and there were precedents because Nicholas’s sister Olga had married an army officer in 1916. Tatiana also had an admirer called Volodya, but there is no doubt Malama was her favourite from the many times she mentions him in her diaries and from the”
― Gill Paul, The Secret Wife

“he advised.”
― Gill Paul, The Secret Wife

“It was an unrelentingly horrific way to die. Kitty thought of the last entry in Tatiana’s diary: although it was pessimistic, she could never have predicted such barbarity, the terror they must have experienced, the agony of the slash wounds. Kitty”
― Gill Paul, The Secret Wife

“The air filled with smoke, making it difficult to see, and the guards panicked. They began stabbing viciously with bayonets to finish off their victims, turning the scene into a bloodbath. Some of the girls were murmuring prayers, others screaming. Bullet after bullet was pumped into little Alexei. Tatiana was shot in the back of the head as she and Olga huddled in a corner, her brain tissue spattering Olga’s face.”
― Gill Paul, The Secret Wife

“overflowing with dirty dishes but now they were washed and stacked away”
― Gill Paul, The Secret Wife

“possessed, as he picked one path and rode down it into the”
― Gill Paul, The Secret Wife

“intelligent. I cannot stop to write more now but will try to find a moment soon. Your very own, Malama. He sealed the note and hurried to the postal clerk’s tent to send it, still feeling discomfited. How could Tatiana not see through such a ruffian? Was she so lacking in judgement? He pondered the question as he lay in bed that night, unable to sleep, and it came to him that her very limited exposure to the outside world must mean she did not have well-tuned instincts about human nature. She was a good creature who saw only good in everyone she met. It would be his role gently to teach her more of the world. As soon as he realised this, he regretted the pompous tone of his note and hoped it would not upset her or even change her opinion of him. He lay awake long into the night worrying and as soon as the camp awoke the following morning he rushed to the postal tent to retrieve his letter, only to find it had”
― Gill Paul, The Secret Wife

“swathed from head to toe in furs. ‘For God’s sake, I ask”
― Gill Paul, The Secret Wife

“wondered if Tatiana”
― Gill Paul, The Secret Wife

“Dmitri and Tatiana’s lives had been full of tragedy. And yet theirs had been such a strong love, lasting through the decades and transcending all obstacles, that you could also say they had been fortunate. Not many people find such life-affirming intimacy.”
― Gill Paul, The Secret Wife