A Good Wife Quotes

“While the shame of my failed marriage has been remarkably tenacious, as the years have passed my confidence has grown. Whenever that sort of negativity flickers through my mind, I remind myself that it is not what I really believe - it is only the remnant of flawed cultural conditioning.”
― Samra Zafar, A Good Wife

“The truth, my truth, was that there were only two real choices - lightness or darkness, energy or defeat, happiness or despair. I was choosing happiness.

I had lived for over ten years in the murky half-light of "what if" and "if only" and "maybe in the future." But there was only "right now." What I did and how I lived in the present.”
― Samra Zafar, A Good Wife

“My husband taught me how not to treat people," I explained. "He showed me what I didn't want to become. In a way, he taught me how to be strong because he forced me to be strong. Because of what he put me through, what I had to rise above, I learned what I was capable of."

While I wouldn't wish my experience on anyone else, I might never have known the truth of my strength or discovered its dimensions if Ahmed had not driven me to it.”
― Samra Zafar, A Good Wife

“If every woman thinks it's too shameful to talk, how is anything going to change?”
― Samra Zafar, A Good Wife

“I wouldn't want to give the impression that I found my past easy to shed. My route out of marriage wasn't fast, and it wasn't linear. Even while I was trying my hardest to change direction, it was a painful little dance, the emotional steps so incremental that it sometimes appeared I wasn't moving at all. Even when it seemed as if I had made a big leap, I could find myself pulled down.”
― Samra Zafar, A Good Wife

“Through all the years of our marriage, if had been Ahmed who did the talking. I had had no voice in our relationship. But those times were truly past. I was no longer afraid, but what surprised me more, I was no longer angry. All the resentment, the hurt, the humiliation had somehow slipped away. And in its place - a peaceful confidence and the power of forgiveness.”
― Samra Zafar, A Good Wife

“That is why the fear of isolation can be positively debilitating. After all, we are in this world for connection. As human beings, that is our basic need.”
― Samra Zafar, A Good Wife