The Good Widow Quotes

“It’s ridiculous how your life doesn’t need your permission to turn upside down.”
― Liz Fenton, The Good Widow

“fear only lives where you let it.”
― Liz Fenton, The Good Widow

“She can kill with a smile She can wound with her eyes She can ruin your faith with her casual lies And she only reveals what she wants you to see She hides like a child But she’s always a woman to me —Billy Joel”
― Liz Fenton, The Good Widow

“I've figured out a funny little secret about life: Even if you stay on the sidewalks and pay your bills on time and use hand sanitizer, bad things still happen. Yes, maybe you can cut your odds by playing it safe. By attempting to predict each and every possible pitfall. But your fate will still find you, no matter how much you hide from it.”
― Liz Fenton, The Good Widow

“The person who boarded that flight from LAX to Maui was weak. She was scared. Now I feel strong. Not quite indestructible, but much more durable. Like I used to be that crappy paper towel they show in the commercial, and now I’m the five-ply one. I used to break easily when there was a spill. Now I can mop up almost any mess. Pour that shit on me. I can handle it.”
― Liz Fenton, The Good Widow

“To realize you can love a person and not know them at all. To start to question everyone and everything in your life. What else do you not know? Who else is keeping things from you?”
― Liz Fenton, The Good Widow

“Now I feel strong. Not quite indestructible, but much more durable. Like I used to be that crappy paper towel they show in the commercial, and now I’m the five-ply one. I used to break easily when there was a spill. Now I can mop up almost any mess. Pour that shit on me. I can handle it.”
― Liz Fenton, The Good Widow

“never-seeing-another-vagina monogamy?”
― Liz Fenton, The Good Widow

“James and I had eight years together, but in many ways we hadn’t even made it out of the gate, like a racehorse that gets spooked by the sound of the gun. So many things had held us back.”
― Liz Fenton, The Good Widow

“a”
― Liz Fenton, The Good Widow

“I'm so sorry, Jacks. I promise I won't ever take advantage of you like that again.'

I bob my head up and down several times in agreement and hope he's lying to me.”
― liz fenton, The Good Widow

“fate will still find you, no matter how much you hide from it.”
― Liz Fenton, The Good Widow

“I’ve figured out a funny little secret about life: Even if you stay on the sidewalks and pay your bills on time and use hand sanitizer, bad things still happen”
― Liz Fenton, The Good Widow

“Even if you stay on the sidewalks and pay your bills on time and use hand sanitizer, bad things still happen. Yes, maybe you can cut your odds by playing it safe. By attempting to predict each and every possible pitfall. But your fate will still find you, no matter how much you hide from it.”
― Liz Fenton, The Good Widow

“would always want my sister with me.”
― Liz Fenton, The Good Widow

“fear only lives where you let it. That they can do anything they set their minds to.”
― Liz Fenton, The Good Widow

“there’s nothing worse, right, than trying to grieve a death when you are so mad at the person.”
― Liz Fenton, The Good Widow

“was something in the way his lip curved a little bit higher on the right as he’d said he didn’t know anything about it that had made me wonder if he was lying. I’d seen that look before, and would again. I ignored it, as I always did.”
― Liz Fenton, The Good Widow

“But now I realize that lies, even small, well-meaning ones, just pile up until they eventually topple over.”
― Liz Fenton, The Good Widow

“realize you can love a person and not know them at all. To start to question everyone and everything in your life. What else do you not know? Who else is keeping things from you?”
― Liz Fenton, The Good Widow

“Dylan wondered where he stored the anger and sadness—the helplessness he witnessed each day. Because she knew there was only so much one person could handle, and a small part of her often worried he might be close to bursting. But maybe he was like an earthquake—there would be no way of knowing it was coming until it was already there.”
― Liz Fenton, The Good Widow

“there was an invisible barrier between the words he spoke aloud and the ones that danced inside his head.”
― Liz Fenton, The Good Widow

“Google Images”
― Liz Fenton, The Good Widow

“Even if you stay on the sidewalks and pay your bills on time and use hand sanitizer, bad things still happen. Yes, maybe you can cut your odds by playing it safe. By attempting to predict each and every possible pitfall. But your fate will still find you, no matter how much you hide from”
― Liz Fenton, The Good Widow

“Dylan wanted to know more—but she didn’t ask. Because if she did, then he’d know she was interested. And she wasn’t sure what exactly it was he wanted from her, or she from him. All she knew for sure was that she’d begun to feel differently about Nick. Like”
― Liz Fenton, The Good Widow

“I’m not sure anything about the drive to Hana would be worth dying”
― Liz Fenton, The Good Widow

“home, she’d buy that book about what to expect and go see her doctor. She’d get all of her questions answered.”
― Liz Fenton, The Good Widow

“met him, he’d charm the shit out of them. Because that’s what he did. My mom started to lap the kitchen island. I knew what she was thinking. How could I go off script? This wasn’t how we did things in the Conner family. “I need to process this.” She stopped and pressed her palms into the counter. “I know it’s fast. We’ve only been dating a few months, but he’s—” I had planned to list my favorite things about him. He was smart, he was a gentleman, he was close with his own mom.”
― Liz Fenton, The Good Widow

“breathed the name Dylan, I would have remembered. He doesn’t want sex. Our sex life was sporadic, but good. He traveled so much that it’s hard to say how often we did it. But when he was home, it would happen. Over those last six months, did I see a difference? Not that I can say. My lip quivers, and I bite it to make it stop, looking up at Nick, who’s watching me. “I was wondering about something,” Nick says. “What?” “Is the pill you took to help with this? Is it for anxiety?” My cheeks get hot. “You saw that?” “Not much gets past me,” he says, then stops short, both of us realizing that nothing could be further from the truth. Dylan had hidden an entire life from him. “I took it to deal with the car ride. I have trouble since . . .” “You don’t need to say any more.” Nick rakes his fingers through his hair. “Why don’t we put our bags in our rooms, then grab a drink? I think we could both use a mai tai.” “Agreed,” I say, following him to the elevator bank, relieved we’ve stopped talking about my self-medication. It makes me feel like more of a victim that I have to take pills so I can handle what my life has become. Nick steps out on the fourth floor of the ocean tower, and I keep going up to nine. As I’m sliding my key card in the slot for 955, my cell phone rings and Beth’s face appears on the screen. I could ignore it, but we haven’t spoken live since I left her house, and I know she’ll keep calling until I answer. She’s always been that way—relentless. It’s”
― Liz Fenton, The Good Widow

“kicked him off my front steps,” I say as I watch her face soften. She thinks this means I’m not”
― Liz Fenton, The Good Widow