The Wife Before Quotes

“A room without books was a room without a soul, so yes, I’d keep some of them on the shelf.”
― Shanora Williams, The Wife Before

“Isn’t it so strange that the people we damn near hate are exactly like us?”
― Shanora Williams, The Wife Before

“room without books was a room without a soul, so yes, I’d keep some of them on the shelf.”
― Shanora Williams, The Wife Before

“I can be both impulsive and impatient and I get overly excited about the smallest things, so imagine what it’s like when a big event or opportunity turns up in my life.”
― Shanora Williams, The Wife Before

“And no one was going to ruin him again. Not when he had me in his corner.”
― Shanora Williams, The Wife Before

“You almost got yourself killed, Samira.” He tipped my chin. “I don’t want you to do anything that crazy ever again.” “Well, unless you have another wife hiding out there somewhere that I don’t know about, I doubt I’ll have to.”
― Shanora Williams, The Wife Before

“You should have minded your own fucking business!”
― Shanora Williams, The Wife Before

“Black women carried generations of burdens on our backs and were powerful for it. Fighting our tears. Fighting others’ battles. Having others step on our backs just so they can climb to the top.”
― Shanora Williams, The Wife Before

“I owned my sexuality, carried it like a shield and a weapon if need be.”
― Shanora Williams, The Wife Before

“A room without books was a room without a soul,”
― Shanora Williams, The Wife Before

“He was just a man lying next to me, one I”
― Shanora Williams, The Wife Before

“There was no way he was a murderer.”
― Shanora Williams, The Wife Before

“You won’t ever have to worry about another bill or place to live so long as you have me in your life.”
― Shanora Williams, The Wife Before

“A job is a job and money is only an object. Sure, it’s nice to have money, but people—Americans especially—have become so numb to working. They get up at the same time every day, slave away for hours, mentally drain themselves, and for what? All so some rich, corporate man can sit in his big mansion and watch the numbers climb in his bank account? I don’t mind working for what I need, and I don’t blame the rich for being the rich.”
― Shanora Williams, The Wife Before

“None of my family had ever believed in depression. We were always told we’d get over it, move past it—that we’d be okay. The way it went was if we kept moving forward or blocking the feelings and pretending the trauma never happened, then we’d be fine. But would we be? What if the trauma became too much to bear? What if the trauma was actually ruining everything good in your life?”
― Shanora Williams, The Wife Before