A Familiar Stranger Quotes

“His guilt was cemented, at least in my mind, when he ran. Just disappeared from his multimillion-dollar mansion and his expensive car. Left artwork and furniture, even his pet eels. Eels. That should have been Lillian’s first sign that the guy was a psychopath.”
― A.R. Torre, A Familiar Stranger

“have, of course, prepared for this. You don’t work thirteen years for an organized crime syndicate without having backup plans stacked on top of backup plans.”
― A.R. Torre, A Familiar Stranger

“The thought of being intimate—of holding or kissing him—makes my stomach curl. While Sam satisfies my sexual needs, I have been emotionally loyal to Lillian since the day that I married her.”
― A.R. Torre, A Familiar Stranger

“Oh no, something much more interesting than that.” Detective Gersh pauses for dramatic effect, and I swear I’m going to rip out his tongue if he doesn’t start using it. “Lillian placed an order for an obituary.”
― A.R. Torre, A Familiar Stranger

“Yeah, how are you going to do that, Mom? You don’t even understand social media. You going to go to school and fight the assholes for me too? This can’t be fixed, and no one’s ever going to forget it. Ever.”
― A.R. Torre, A Familiar Stranger

“He smelled like mustard, and the fact that he was close enough for me to catch the scent proved his violation of my personal space.”
― A.R. Torre, A Familiar Stranger

“Instead, I married a beautiful, creative train wreck, one who needed me with a desperation”
― A.R. Torre, A Familiar Stranger

“I didn’t love him but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t love this new version of my life.”
― A.R. Torre, A Familiar Stranger

“My husband loves to solve problems, which is probably why he married me to begin with. Other men choose women they can’t live without. Mine chose a woman who was unlikely to live without him.”
― A.R. Torre, A Familiar Stranger

“It was from a lack of him loving me back.”
― A.R. Torre, A Familiar Stranger

“as if she were tasting the flavor of truth versus lie.”
― A.R. Torre, A Familiar Stranger

“I just want to start off by saying that love wasn’t what caused all this. The murder, the double life, the lies . . . None of it was triggered from a lack of me loving my husband.
It was from a lack of him loving me back.”
― A.R. Torre, A Familiar Stranger