The Personal Assistant Quotes

“There’s nothing quite as savage as a preteen’s ridicule.”
― Kimberly Belle, The Personal Assistant

“He’d let her believe it was her idea, when all this time, what he’d really been courting was access to the motel. He needed it, needed her, to run his business. The idea thrilled her as much as it ticked her off.”
― Kimberly Belle, The Personal Assistant

“How do you know when you finally find that person, that he’s the one you’ve been waiting for all along? You just do.”
― Kimberly Belle, The Personal Assistant

“When did external validation become a prerequisite for our inner peace? Doubts, stresses, anxieties, expectations, comparisons. Let all that shit go. Live your own life, be your own person. Show the world your authentic, badass self and the rest will come. You are perfect as you are.”
― Kimberly Belle, The Personal Assistant

“What happens when people tire of my story, when Unapologetically Alex grows old and stale all over again, or people migrate to a new social media platform? Can I stay in demand, keep all those new followers engaged? Will I ever stop feeling so angry?”
― Kimberly Belle, The Personal Assistant

“That’s just the kind of man he was, one who’d let a soaked woman skip the line at the valet stand, who dished financial advice to help people grow their bank accounts.”
― Kimberly Belle, The Personal Assistant

“I don’t defend my online persona, or try to explain once again that she is only a role, that I am not Unapologetically Alex, because that would be making this moment about me when it’s not.”
― Kimberly Belle, The Personal Assistant

“For Patrick, for the stepfather they loved and lost, for yet another fatherless future. There’s no way to spin that, no positive affirmation that can change that hard truth. The only thing I can do is let them sob.”
― Kimberly Belle, The Personal Assistant

“Owen Chamberlain is an arrogant ass who burns through money without a single thought as to where it came from. Country club dues, private school tuition, big house on one of the swankiest streets in Buckhead. There’s no way he can pay for all that on a judge’s salary and it can’t all be family money.”
― Kimberly Belle, The Personal Assistant

“Even from prison, Doug has plenty of henchmen doing his business, all of whom would be eager to prove their loyalty by going after the man who killed his brother and stole two million dollars of his money.”
― Kimberly Belle, The Personal Assistant

“God, Mister Fluffles was right. Unapologetically Alex was full of shit.”
― Kimberly Belle, The Personal Assistant

“Owen says you never mailed the key. He says he never saw you do it, and who becomes a self-made millionaire at twenty-two? Not without some kind of a head start.” “Again. Owen is lying. He’s a self-serving prick who will say anything to save his own ass.”
― Kimberly Belle, The Personal Assistant

“I find it a little strange that this is the part she’s fixated on, not the part where I killed a man without even blinking, not the part where I took a woman’s baby and a bag stuffed with cash—”
― Kimberly Belle, The Personal Assistant

“Patrick Hutchinson isn’t a self-made man, not even close. He got a head start with two million dollars of stolen money. He’s a thief and murderer and a fraud.”
― Kimberly Belle, The Personal Assistant

“I hate her. Unapologetically Alex sucking up all the air in every room, turning every subject back to her, hijacking every conversation. This woman and her Insta-perfect life, treating every moment like it’s a colorful little window into her vacuous life. Even more than Patrick, I fucking hate her so much.”
― Kimberly Belle, The Personal Assistant

“Not everything is about you, you self-centered bitch. Who”
― Kimberly Belle, The Personal Assistant

“For the life of me, I can’t square these past ten days with the man I know. The stepfather and the husband. The provider. The sweet stranger who fronted the valet”
― Kimberly Belle, The Personal Assistant

“This body is beautiful, yes, but it isn’t anywhere near as perfect as my wife’s.”
― Kimberly Belle, The Personal Assistant

“Except I meant every word. I told her I wasn’t giving her a motherfucking cent. That if she didn’t stop messing with me and my family, I’d dump her body someplace no one would ever find it. I stare down the detective and wonder what else she’s holding back. If the lip reader picked up on the other stuff.”
― Kimberly Belle, The Personal Assistant

“These days, Anna Claire had a much better idea of what this business entailed. He wasn’t just moving money, he was moving drugs. A whole shit ton of them. Managing a web of mules spread out over three states, trading pills for cash that they left for her to collect at the Starlux.”
― Kimberly Belle, The Personal Assistant

“I am. Loving mother, supportive wife, charismatic businesswoman. One with an enviable, Instagrammable life.”
― Kimberly Belle, The Personal Assistant

“Emotions were high that day, Detective, and my wife was angry, but she’s not a violent person. So she said some unkind things. They’re just words.” “Kind of like the trolls’ words?”
― Kimberly Belle, The Personal Assistant

“I think of Nina, surrendered to strangers by an anonymous mother, and my heart squeezes with understanding, with sympathy. She knows how it feels to be abandoned, too.”
― Kimberly Belle, The Personal Assistant

“Finally the police will understand that something real and terrible is happening here. Finally they’ll believe me when I say the threats are more than just words.”
― Kimberly Belle, The Personal Assistant

“That day when he’d rescued her from the side of the road and gave her a ride here, all those questions about occupancy rates and prices... He was making plans. He was grooming her for exactly this.”
― Kimberly Belle, The Personal Assistant

“can’t just Instagram us out of this problem.”
― Kimberly Belle, The Personal Assistant

“Oh my God, Mom, really? Fake lashes. Fake lips. Fake boobs. Fake smile as soon as the cameras are on. Fake dye in your hair and fake paint on your nails and fake bleach on your teeth, and newsflash: everybody knows that a deviated septum is code for nose job. There’s literally nothing about you that’s real.”
― Kimberly Belle, The Personal Assistant

“Actually, I’m sugarcoating. What she said is she never would have allowed my daughters in her house if she’d known they were smuggling in contraband. She said the twins are mini Krissie Kellys in the making, and that people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. She said she doesn’t want her precious Jenni anywhere near the twins, and that she’s praying for all of us.”
― Kimberly Belle, The Personal Assistant

“I one hundred percent agree. What I’m not buying is that my girls would be stupid enough to sneak a drink in front of all their friends at a party when there are cell phone cameras and a parent right upstairs. I mean...give them some credit. And even if they were drinking, which I’m not saying they were, they certainly wouldn’t have been the only ones doing it.”
― Kimberly Belle, The Personal Assistant

“Yeah, but Patrick hates Florida. He says it’s a sauna filled with tourists and little old ladies from Ohio who can’t drive. Our girls can’t even get him to go to Seaside, no matter how much they cry and beg. We vacation pretty much anywhere but Florida.”
― Kimberly Belle, The Personal Assistant