The Other Mrs. Quotes

“A man who is willing to cheat on his wife, she said, will often make promises to you that he can’t keep. When he tells you he loves you, it’s a form of entrapment. Cheating spouses are masters at manipulation, she said. He may tell you things to keep you from ending the affair. He has both a wife and a lover on the side. He has no incentive to change.”
― Mary Kubica, The Other Mrs.

“If time can turn something so undesired into something so loved, the same can happen to all of us. The same can happen to me.”
― Mary Kubica, The Other Mrs.

“I step from a pair of sneakers and sink my bare feet into the sea, thinking of beach glass.
If time can turn something so undesired into something so love, the same can happen to all of us. The same can happen to me.”
― Mary Kubica, The Other Mrs.

“man who is willing to cheat on his wife, she said, will often make promises to you that he can’t keep. When he tells you he loves you, it’s a form of entrapment. Cheating spouses are masters at manipulation, she said. He may tell you things to keep you from ending the affair. He has both a wife and a lover on the side. He has no incentive to change. It”
― Mary Kubica, The Other Mrs.

“Happenstance, he called it. Everything happens for a reason,”
― Mary Kubica, The Other Mrs.

“There’s nothing worse than lying in bed, restless, worrying about things I can’t do anything about.”
― Mary Kubica, The Other Mrs.

“street just outside his Crown Victoria, leaned up against the passenger’s side door. In his hands are coffee and a cinnamon roll, just a stone’s throw away from the stereotypical doughnut cops are notorious for eating, though slightly more refined. As he waves at me, I get the sense that he’s been watching me the entire time, watching as I watch Otto leave. He tips his hat at me. I wave at him through the car window. What I usually do at this point in”
― Mary Kubica, The Other Mrs.

“Now he was all grown up, working in the Financial”
― Mary Kubica, The Other Mrs.

“Because that’s the way it is with relationships sometimes. They ebb and they flow.”
― Mary Kubica, The Other Mrs.

“You have no idea,” she says, her tone chilling. “You have no fucking clue what it was like to hear her cry in the middle of the night. Pain so bad at times that she couldn’t help but scream. She’d get all excited about some new doctor, some new treatment, only for it to fucking fail again, her hopes dashed. It was hopeless. She wasn’t getting any better. She was never going to get any better. No one should have to live like that.”
― Mary Kubica, The Other Mrs.

“if there was a lack of empathy in our voices it’s because this is what is expected of older people. They get injured, sick; they die.”
― Mary Kubica, The Other Mrs.

“Maybe the marginal attention of a married man was all she had going for her”
― Mary Kubica, The Other Mrs.