Reader, I Murdered Him Quotes

“Why do you think, when women tell the stories of their lives, they end with marriage? It is not a happily ever after, cherie, only the end of happiness?”
― Betsy Cornwell, Reader, I Murdered Him: A Gothic YA Thriller of Victorian Revenge and Queer Romance

“When you write, your words survive even your death.”
― Betsy Cornwell, Reader, I Murdered Him: A Gothic YA Thriller of Victorian Revenge and Queer Romance

“Some people think that men are drawn to younger girls because of the beauty of our youth, but ever since I’ve known that I admire women, I’ve also known this to be untrue. I have never in my life seen a woman who was at her most beautiful before the age of twenty-five; I doubt I ever shall. Men like young girls precisely because we are young. We are moldable still in a way that grown women who have formed their own opinions are not.”
― Betsy Cornwell, Reader, I Murdered Him: A Gothic YA Thriller of Victorian Revenge and Queer Romance

“The whole world began to stink with the sins of powerful men.”
― Betsy Cornwell, Reader, I Murdered Him: A Gothic YA Thriller of Victorian Revenge and Queer Romance

“Perhaps all little girls have the same red room inside them.”
― Betsy Cornwell, Reader, I Murdered Him: A Gothic YA Thriller of Victorian Revenge and Queer Romance