Mary Quotes

“I did nothing,” she said after a moment, “to deserve ending up like that monster. I was good, I did everything right, so why did I turn into that thing? Why did my life end, after fifty-seven years, with me putting a noose around my neck and hanging myself in the basement? And did you read the note that I wrote? So pathetic. So worthless. Did I really let my life fade away, all because of that Maurice Renshaw man?” “I”
― Amy Cross, Mary

“I was a good girl,” she said after a moment, her voice trembling with emotion. “Not perfect, of course. Nobody is. But I was happy, and I was optimistic, and in my own way I suppose I was clever enough.” Her voice briefly trailed off, as if she was lost in thought. “My biggest failing,” she added eventually, “was that I believed wholeheartedly and blindly in the transformative power of love. I believed it was love that would define me, I believed it was only a matter of time before I met somebody who loved me truly and deeply. I don't think it ever occurred to me that anything else might happen.” “Why are you telling me this?” Ben asked. “I want to know who you are.” “When I grew up, I began to wonder how long I would have to wait. I reached marrying age, and nothing happened, and I got older and older while all the other girls in town began to pair off with local boys. I don't know what it was about me that was so repulsive, but evidently something put them all off me, until I started to consider the possibility that I would end up as a spinster.”
― Amy Cross, Mary