Marriage and Murder Quotes

“Having a beautiful future doesn’t lessen what you’ve lived through, it doesn’t mean you’re not grieving hard enough or that you’re ignoring weighty matters. It means you honor everything you’ve been through, all the hellish obstacles, and you recognize that you’re worthy of happiness, of beauty, of peace.”
― Penny Reid, Marriage and Murder

“You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.” ​— ​Abraham Lincoln”
― Penny Reid, Marriage and Murder

“He paused, opening the velvet box and revealing a white gold or platinum necklace, the chain comprised of delicate but wide filigree sections with diamonds set in star shapes at each of the links.”
― Penny Reid, Marriage and Murder

“Billy, of course, didn’t need a new suit. He already owned eleventy thousand. The dandy coxcomb.”
― Penny Reid, Marriage and Murder

“I wondered if, fundamentally, the world was made up of people who either sought justice at the expense of redemption, or those who sought redemption at the expense of justice.”
― Penny Reid, Marriage and Murder

“You have a future, and it will be beautiful. Having a beautiful future doesn’t lessen what you’ve lived through, it doesn’t mean you’re not grieving hard enough or that you’re ignoring weighty matters. It means you honor everything you’ve been through, all the hellish obstacles, and you recognize that you’re worthy of happiness, of beauty, of peace.”
― Penny Reid, Marriage and Murder

“Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.” ​— ​C.S. LEWIS, THE SILVER CHAIR”
― Penny Reid, Marriage and Murder

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” ​— ​ALDOUS HUXLEY, COMPLETE ESSAYS, VOL. II: 1926-1929”
― Penny Reid, Marriage and Murder

“I wasn’t ashamed. Men need to cry. Life can be shitty and overwhelming and if a man doesn’t cry when he can’t do anything else, then he turns bitter, resentful, and deranged. I was none of those things because I cried.”
― Penny Reid, Marriage and Murder

“This story was ours. We were weird. I was so glad I’d stayed away from the normals, because I wouldn’t have traded being weird with Cletus for being normal with absolutely anyone else. -”
― Penny Reid, Marriage and Murder

“Our love story might’ve been a little mixed up. Some folks might even call it weird. I’d threatened and blackmailed him. We’d become friends. We’d fallen in love. We’d made love. We’d become engaged, sorta. We’d become engaged for real. I’d almost died, a few times. We’d married, waited a year, took a honeymoon, and now we were getting married again.”
― Penny Reid, Marriage and Murder

“You want someone to look at you like how Jenn looks at me,” I repeated, considering the words and all the information I had on Jackson James. He wasn’t a philanderer, but he was an indiscriminate baker.”
― Penny Reid, Marriage and Murder

“We all sit in judgment of each other, the bad decisions and evil deeds others make. Perhaps the most difficult of all truths is that no one can ever know, or understand, or share your own.”
― Penny Reid, Marriage and Murder

“Folks like it when justice applies to other people, but always think it’s unfair when applied to them.”
― Penny Reid, Marriage and Murder

“the world was made up of people who either sought justice at the expense of redemption, or those who sought redemption at the expense of justice.”
― Penny Reid, Marriage and Murder

“Reasons is another word for excuses.”
― Penny Reid, Marriage and Murder

“But then a short woman baker blackmailed me, distracted me, and changed my life and my heart forever with a dark chocolate confection she’d called compassion cake.”
― Penny Reid, Marriage and Murder

“he’d hand out beatings to Wraiths like Oprah handed out her favorite things to audience members—you get a beating and you get a beating!”
― Penny Reid, Marriage and Murder

“Love yourself, man. ’Cause no one else is going to take the wheel and make it happen. Don’t you want better for you?”
― Penny Reid, Marriage and Murder

“The more one judges, the less one loves.” ​— ​Honoré de Balzac, Physiologie Du Mariage”
― Penny Reid, Marriage and Murder

“You think making love is polite and the other—let’s call it ‘humping like rabbits’—is rude?”
― Penny Reid, Marriage and Murder

“he could get lost in a rose garden with three bushes.”
― Penny Reid, Marriage and Murder

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.” ​— ​Isaac Asimov, Foundation”
― Penny Reid, Marriage and Murder

“pretend to care about their inanity.”
― Penny Reid, Marriage and Murder

“Every day, I want you to know that I would marry you, that I love and adore you no less but always more than the day before.”
― Penny Reid, Marriage and Murder

“I love you so completely, with every cell in my body. I wonder sometimes if I’d cease to exist—just evaporate or disappear—if anything ever happened to you.”
― Penny Reid, Marriage and Murder

“To Jackson, she may have been merely beautiful. To me, she existed as a multi-dimensional angel and devil, owner of my heart, my joy and my pain, light-years beyond beautiful, or celestial, or exquisite. Because when I saw Jenn, I saw all of her, all versions of her, and all our history, and all the wonderous and frightening possibilities of our future.”
― Penny Reid, Marriage and Murder

“Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.” ​— ​William Shakespeare, The Passionate Pilgrim”
― Penny Reid, Marriage and Murder

“When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never any strength to throw away. ​— ​Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd”
― Penny Reid, Marriage and Murder

“This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.” ​— ​Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov”
― Penny Reid, Marriage and Murder