The Silent Wife Quotes

“For once in my life, I wanted to surrender to romance, to believe love was sparkly and special and not something that made you look in the mirror and shake your head at your own stupidity.”
― Kerry Fisher, The Silent Wife

“But after years of Dad saying, ‘Fear keeps you safe, darling, because, as we know, the worst can happen,”
― Kerry Fisher, The Silent Wife

“My wedding day took place on a non-descript afternoon in the middle of January, well away from any big deal occasions like Christmas or Valentine’s Day. I was thirty-five and I’d never even lived with a man before. Not because I was the last nun in the convent – too late to pull that stunt with my ten-year-old son, Sam, in tow – but because I was addicted to wrong ’uns. The sort of men who would have dads bundling their daughters into basements and throwing burning oil out of the top window. But”
― Kerry Fisher, The Silent Wife

“wondered if Beryl had the measure of Anna. She wasn’t stupid. She’d clocked Anna practically reaching for the smelling salts when Beryl didn’t know the difference between penne and fusilli – ‘It’s all pasta, isn’t it?’ But unlike me, Beryl didn’t resolve to do better, to read more, to think faster, to”
― Kerry Fisher, The Silent Wife

“Perhaps stepmother sounds a bit “Come on, dearie, have a nice bite of the apple”.”
― Kerry Fisher, The Silent Wife

“important”
― Kerry Fisher, The Silent Wife

“hate me. I felt the breath return to my lungs. ‘I didn’t force him”
― Kerry Fisher, The Silent Wife

“Instead, for all the joy evident in the ‘ceremony’ room, we could have been gathered for a collective colonoscopy.”
― Kerry Fisher, The Silent Wife

“Talking to him was like trying all the switches to see which one turned the lamp on.”
― Kerry Fisher, The Silent Wife

“And instead of him finding me less incredibile as time wore on, he’d asked me to marry him. Which for a woman in the Parker family was as rare as knowing for certain who your father was. So as I walked in on Sam’s arm, as ready as I’d ever be to take my wedding vows, I should have felt like a mountain climber finally bursting onto a craggy peak after years of standing at the bottom, asking, ‘How the hell do I get up there?’ Instead I felt more like a failed football manager carrying the weight of the fans’ woes upon him. I tried to catch Francesca’s eye as I came down the aisle. I wanted to show her I understood, that it wouldn’t be as bad as she feared; that we could make this work. But she refused to look up, her teenage face pointed to the floor, her body locked in a fragile battle between antagonism and anguish. I wanted to pause, to ask the tiny”
― Kerry Fisher, The Silent Wife

“couples do. They share each other’s problems and work out”
― Kerry Fisher, The Silent Wife

“sorry, Anna. There’ve been a few happenings in the family that you should know about.”
― Kerry Fisher, The Silent Wife

“She wore adulthood so lightly, as though it were a state to be dipped into when absolutely necessary, an interruption to having fun and letting tomorrow take care of itself.”
― Kerry Fisher, The Silent Wife

“So many thoughtful gestures to balance his hurtful outbursts. But”
― Kerry Fisher, The Silent Wife

“home.’ Lara’s head slumped towards her chest. She started”
― Kerry Fisher, The Silent Wife

“being a tireless publicity whirlwind. It’s been a privilege to be part”
― Kerry Fisher, The Silent Wife

“There were so many”
― Kerry Fisher, The Silent Wife

“my own all day long. Just as all the other boys joined in the wheelbarrowing – a chaotic tangle of shrieks and skinny limbs – the mayhem came to a halt. Massimo strode down the garden, dressed in a proper goalkeeping outfit, clapping his hands and barking out an authoritative, ‘Right, gather round.’ I’d been trying to get their attention for the last half an hour. It was still a man’s world. But right now, I was glad this particular man with his child-taming abilities was here. He ran through the rules of the splash and score game involving transferring water from one dustbin to another before shooting at the goal. ‘Two teams, you’re the goalie for that one, Nico; I’ll be the other.’ Not for Massimo the ‘Ready, Steady, Go, let’s all enjoy ourselves’ approach. Oh no. He blew a whistle and launched into a stream of team encouragement that made me feel as though he was trying to cheer an Olympic marathon runner to the finish line rather than a gaggle”
― Kerry Fisher, The Silent Wife

“Rhodesian Ridgeback wandered out from the French windows at the back of the house. Such a majestic creature. Massimo told me they were bred to hunt lions in Africa, which made me wonder whether poor old Lupo felt a bit short-changed at finding himself confined to a suburban garden in Sussex.”
― Kerry Fisher, The Silent Wife

“I’d resolved to instruct Sam to donate my body to medical science and to celebrate random memories of me as they popped up without the stress of a big gloomy date rolling round every year.”
― Kerry Fisher, The Silent Wife