A Wicked Kind of Husband Quotes

“This is a colonization, Das. That woman is colonizing my house. Do you know what that means?” “Years of bloodshed, oppression, and exploitation, perhaps?”
― Mia Vincy, A Wicked Kind of Husband

“Let me explain, Mrs. DeWitt, how marriage works.” “Oh, please do, Mr. DeWitt, I’m all agog.” “I am the husband, so I make the rules to suit me.” “And I am the wife, so I change the rules to suit me.”
― Mia Vincy, A Wicked Kind of Husband

“Lucy picked up her skirts and danced down the hall to her own door. “I’m going to run away to Ireland!” she yelled. Cassandra followed after her. “Haven’t the Irish suffered enough?” “Maybe a pirate will kidnap me. If I’m lucky.” “If we’re all lucky.”
― Mia Vincy, A Wicked Kind of Husband

“My whole life was a simple five-note tune and he has turned it into a symphony. This is what knowing him has done to me, and now I cannot imagine experiencing the world any other way.”
― Mia Vincy, A Wicked Kind of Husband

“What else did she say?” he said. She huffed out. “That she could not help herself: She was overwhelmed by your charm and consideration. So I knew she had the wrong man.”
― Mia Vincy, A Wicked Kind of Husband

“Shaving is a waste of time. Bloody beard just grows back again. You object to my whiskers, Cordelia?” “Cats have whiskers, Jonah. Men have scruff. You look…” “Disreputable? Do say I look disreputable. I adore looking disreputable.” She glared at him. He grinned at her. What a marvelous sport this was, being ridiculous and riling her up.”
― Mia Vincy, A Wicked Kind of Husband

“The trouble began with brandy.”
― Mia Vincy, A Wicked Kind of Husband

“Family! With a sigh, she headed toward the gate and her waiting carriage. Her sisters hated her, her mother forgot her name, her grandmother thought her unimportant, and her husband wanted her gone. If she’d known it would be like this, she would have brought her cat.”
― Mia Vincy, A Wicked Kind of Husband

“In a single movement, he stood. Loomed. Good: That would make it easier for her to kick him in the—the—the bollocks, and then he’d think twice before getting them out again.”
― Mia Vincy, A Wicked Kind of Husband

“It’s not fair to laugh at me. You men cannot demand that women be innocent and then mock us for being exactly what you say you want.”
― Mia Vincy, A Wicked Kind of Husband

“No peace. Not here, not for her. She had vowed not to succumb to heartbreak, but heartbreak, it seemed, was a physical thing.”
― Mia Vincy, A Wicked Kind of Husband

“If they waited until women were old enough to get some common sense, they’d never get them married off at all.”
― Mia Vincy, A Wicked Kind of Husband

“How much is wasted when men decide that certain babies are worth nothing because of their birth or class or sex or skin? How much do we all lose, as a nation, as humans, by dismissing people simply because they are not like us?”
― Mia Vincy, A Wicked Kind of Husband

“Better an aching head than an aching heart,”
― Mia Vincy, A Wicked Kind of Husband

“She maintained her facade, but her little speech was edged with anger, tainted with frustration, searing with the hint that some part of her longed to scream the words and pummel his chest and hurl heavy objects at his head. Her sense of injustice, her lack of power, her subtle strength of character—he imagined them wrestling with each other like drunks in a brawl, wreaking havoc inside her, with only her politeness to keep them locked in. A better man would help her fight her battles, so she could have some peace.”
― Mia Vincy, A Wicked Kind of Husband