The Guilty Husband Quotes

“More often than not, the ones that seem too good to be true, are the ones hiding the biggest secrets.”
― Stephanie DeCarolis, The Guilty Husband

“find”
― Stephanie DeCarolis, The Guilty Husband

“I took comfort in the routine motions of cooking, layering the pasta and the cheese, putting everything in the right order, creating something warm and familiar.”
― Stephanie DeCarolis, The Guilty Husband

“I was blind with rage. I wasn’t thinking. I didn’t plan to kill her. Not even as I picked up the rock that lay on the ground next to me. Not even as I swung my arm and watched it collide with her head. In truth, I didn’t even remember hitting her. Not until much later. But I did. I killed that girl.”
― Stephanie DeCarolis, The Guilty Husband

“Jeff may have just admitted to having feelings for my wife, but I feel closer to him than I ever have.”
― Stephanie DeCarolis, The Guilty Husband

“He didn’t have much back then, but he always made sure I knew how much he adored me. It was little things, you know? Bringing me bouquets of wildflowers to the art gallery I worked at, booking little weekend getaways here and there. We’d go wine tasting, or to see Broadway shows. I’m not sure theater was Vince’s thing really, but he knew I loved it.”
― Stephanie DeCarolis, The Guilty Husband

“Where were you the night of August twenty-fourth?’ Barnett looks to his attorney who nods curtly, giving him permission to reply. ‘I was at home all night. With my mom. We watched a movie. The Breakfast Club.”
― Stephanie DeCarolis, The Guilty Husband

“I’m about to walk up the stairs when I catch a whiff of roasted garlic in the air, and decide to check the kitchen instead.”
― Stephanie DeCarolis, The Guilty Husband

“but I knew that someday I’d have a little hand in mine. I’d have first words, first steps, first days of school.”
― Stephanie DeCarolis, The Guilty Husband

“eventually stammered. ‘Can I see this?’ She gently took the scrap of paper with the office address from my hand. ‘Oh, that’s the unit upstairs,’ she explained. ‘The entrance is around the other side of the building.’ ‘Um, thanks.’ I tried to tear my eyes away from her, but found it nearly impossible. She was the loveliest creature I had ever seen. I went to see the dank, musty office space upstairs and rented it on the spot. I didn’t care that it wasn’t at all what I was looking for. Because I needed to see that girl again. It felt like a fait accompli. I was meant to meet Nicole.”
― Stephanie DeCarolis, The Guilty Husband

“swing my arm as hard as I can, my racket colliding with the bright green tennis ball. It sails over the net and hits the surrounding fence with a satisfying clang. I lift another ball, the sun beating down on my head as sweat trickles down my back. The white linen shirt I’m wearing is nearly translucent by now. I squeeze the ball in my hand, my fingers digging into the spongy fuzz and the hard rubber underneath. I toss it into the air and swing my racket again. The racket whistles through the air and smacks the ball. Thwack. I”
― Stephanie DeCarolis, The Guilty Husband

“fashionable, and my interest in computers hardly helped me make friends. But with Jeff on my side, the popular crowd tolerated my presence. I wasn’t part of their inner circle, but I was allowed to exist on the periphery of the good life. I tagged along with Jeff to all the right parties, and even though the popular guys never talked to me, and the girls didn’t seem to notice I existed, I was there, sipping my beer in some forgotten corner. And I got to walk home with Jeff, laughing in the streets about who got too drunk, who hooked up with who, and all of the juicy high school drama that felt like the most important thing in the world at the time. Jeff was my life raft. But what did he get from”
― Stephanie DeCarolis, The Guilty Husband

“Or is it something deeper, something lurking in the collective subconscious of our society, that makes men able to move through the world with such confidence, such entitlement to claim the territory around them, while women are constantly reminded to make their bodies smaller, to take up less space in the world?”
― Stephanie DeCarolis, The Guilty Husband

“about”
― Stephanie DeCarolis, The Guilty Husband

“I bent all the evidence to fit my preconceived notion of his guilt, and I failed to see anything that didn’t fit with the narrative I created.”
― Stephanie DeCarolis, The Guilty Husband

“Social media has let us design how we want the world to see us, while conveniently cropping out all of the unsightly messes that make up a real life.”
― Stephanie DeCarolis, The Guilty Husband

“Positive thinking for a positive outcome.”
― Stephanie DeCarolis, The Guilty Husband

“When the suffering isn’t ours to carry, we wash it off hastily and unceremoniously and, if we’re being honest, quietly think to ourselves that we’re glad to be rid of it and the mild discomfort we fleetingly felt as a result of its proximity to our lives.”
― Stephanie DeCarolis, The Guilty Husband

“media has let us design how we want the world to see us, while conveniently cropping out all of the unsightly messes that make up a real life.”
― Stephanie DeCarolis, The Guilty Husband

“particularly”
― Stephanie DeCarolis, The Guilty Husband