The Other Wife Quotes

“We should wish our children full lives, jam-packed with triumph and tragedy, boredom and excitement, beautiful, messy, passionate and worth celebrating. I”
― Michael Robotham, The Other Wife

“If I wanted to talk to a bearded man with delusions of grandeur, I’d ask my barista how his band is doing.”
― Michael Robotham, The Other Wife

“Haven’t you heard – fat isn’t the killer any more. Now I can eat more pork than Kermit.”
― Michael Robotham, The Other Wife

“the worst hour of your life only lasts for sixty minutes.”
― Michael Robotham, The Other Wife

“In a deep psychological sense, we have no self unless we have a secret.”
― Michael Robotham, The Other Wife

“Anger, self-pity and frustration jostle for ascendancy, until a newer sharper feeling overwhelms me – utter despair.”
― Michael Robotham, The Other Wife

“We moved back to London a year ago, after selling the cottage in Somerset. I used the money from the sale and a bank loan to buy a top-floor flat in a mansion block called Wellington Court in Belsize Park, not far from Primrose Hill. Airy and bright, with high ceilings and a large bay window in the sitting room, it has three bedrooms and a small roof terrace, accessible from the kitchen window, where Emma and I sometimes watch the sun setting over London while sitting on deckchairs like passengers on an ocean liner”
― Michael Robotham, The Other Wife

“David changes the subject and talks about school. We were both at Brighton College, although not at the same time. I’m a dozen years older, but we remember the same teachers, classrooms and dormitories. David went on to become a boarding school legend after getting caught in flagrante delicto with the headmaster’s daughter in the cricket pavilion. Felicity, aged seventeen, had more curves than a scenic railway and by all reports had starred in countless adolescent fantasies among the boarders”
― Michael Robotham, The Other Wife

“In a deep psychological sense, we have no self unless we have a secret. We grab for them whenever we begin losing ourselves in our social group or work or marriage. We reassert our identity as somebody apart.”
― Michael Robotham, The Other Wife

“I apologise. There are many medical myths. People believe that sweating gets rid of toxins, or that reading in poor light damages eyesight, or we shouldn't go swimming after eating, or shaving hair makes it grow back thicker & draker. It's not true. Cold weather doesn't give us more colds. Coffee doesn't sober you up. Your heart doesn't stop when you sneeze. And one arsehole isn't any smarter than another, although proctology isn't really my field.”
― Michael Robotham, The Other Wife

“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.’ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray”
― Michael Robotham, The Other Wife

“How do I explain to someone like my mother that love and hate are not absolutes, or opposite sides of the same coin. Hate is an evil passion and love an inspired one,”
― Michael Robotham, The Other Wife

“All parents disappoint us eventually.”
― Michael Robotham, The Other Wife

“David.”
― Michael Robotham, The Other Wife

“Remember, Joseph, the worst hour of your life only lasts for sixty minutes.”
― Michael Robotham, The Other Wife

“but we often meet our fate on the road we take to avoid it.”
― Michael Robotham, The Other Wife

“Men always imagine that women are bonded by ideas of sisterhood and solidarity, but we pick our fights and our friends.”
― Michael Robotham, The Other Wife

“I’ve heard it said that you can discover how you feel about someone when you watch them sleeping. You see things you don’t look for at other times. The elegance of an open mouth, the absence of anxiety, the vulnerability of each breath, a small vein pulsing beneath her pale skin.”
― Michael Robotham, The Other Wife