The Stepmother Quotes

“It took me a lifetime to understand that, all too often, people are just plain nasty. They can't see beyond their own stuff. They're scarred forever, and they want to take you down too.”
― Claire Seeber, The Stepmother

“Still, the thing lurks in the corners of my mind, that squat little beast called memory, its sticky fingers covering everything with a thin layer of slime.”
― Claire Seeber, The Stepmother

“Happy endings? In my book, they're what you get down the massage parlour on the Old Kent Road. They are not real life.”
― Claire Seeber, The Stepmother

“But what is nice anyway? Nice is so often only on the surface in my experience. The debris usually lies beneath.”
― Claire Seeber, The Stepmother

“Don’t mind me,’ I joked, but no one really laughed. Matthew raised”
― Claire Seeber, The Stepmother

“touch really soon, I swear.”
― Claire Seeber, The Stepmother

“When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.’ I”
― Claire Seeber, The Stepmother