The Woman in Our House Quotes

“Who the fuck is Carl?”
― Andrew Hart, The Woman in Our House

“Carl,” she said again, her voice flat.”
― Andrew Hart, The Woman in Our House

“The only man who had ever been interested in her was Carl, and God knew that hadn’t been about attraction.”
― Andrew Hart, The Woman in Our House

“Carl.”
― Andrew Hart, The Woman in Our House

“The men who like me . . . Well, there was only ever one, to be honest, and he turned out not to be very nice. Not nice at all. Believe me, I’m better by myself.” “But you are so warm and loving!” I exclaimed. “So good with people, with kids. People can see that. One day . . .”
― Andrew Hart, The Woman in Our House

“The men who like me . . . Well, there was only ever one, to be honest, and he turned out not to be very nice. Not nice at all. Believe me, I’m better by myself.” “But you are so warm and loving!” I exclaimed. “So good with people, with kids.”
― Andrew Hart, The Woman in Our House

“Then it shut with a thunk, and I was alone in the house for the first time in what felt like years.”
― Andrew Hart, The Woman in Our House

“Carl,”
― Andrew Hart, The Woman in Our House

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here. —William Shakespeare, The Tempest”
― Andrew Hart, The Woman in Our House

“But I remembered the semicircular shadows of the dogwood leaves as they had been during the eclipse, and I felt the truth of the private message they had sent me. Eclipsed. Happiness wouldn’t just arrive like dawn. I had to go to meet it.”
― Andrew Hart, The Woman in Our House

“Love. The two women looked at each other, and that most loaded of words hung between them, stuffed full of misconceptions willful and otherwise, a word that meant everything and nothing.”
― Andrew Hart, The Woman in Our House

“I sat with them both until the X-rays were done and the arm—with its hairline fibula fracture—was braced and set.”
― Andrew Hart, The Woman in Our House