The Second Wife Quotes

“Fly high little bird,’ she whispered. ‘Know that a little piece of my heart flies with you.”
― Sheryl Browne, The Second Wife

“She’d blamed herself for his cheating on her, just as she’d blamed herself for everything. She’d had no regard for herself in the end, only a self-loathing hatred that she could have been so pathetic, allowing someone to control her, subtly at first and then ultimately. Financially, sexually, he’d stripped her of everything. She had a long way to go to trust herself again completely. But she really did feel she could trust this man, who’d showed her how to love again, how to accept that she was attractive enough to be loved. He’d given her back her self-esteem.”
― Sheryl Browne, The Second Wife

“He’ll learn that lies are what hurt most, in time.”
― Sheryl Browne, The Second Wife

“I’d never imagined myself succumbing to a state of emotional abandonment where I lost all rational thought, my sense of identity. Lost sight of me. It happens gradually, subtly and insidiously, until you really do believe the madness is ‘all in your mind’.”
― Sheryl Browne, The Second Wife

“The rawness of loss diminishes eventually, but the pain is always with you, a tidal wave of grief when you least expect it.”
― Sheryl Browne, The Second Wife