The Next Mrs. Wimberly Quotes

“Instead of breaking another woman down, something society pins us to do, I wanted to remember to build them up. After all, it could save someone’s life in more ways than imaginable.”
― Monica Arya, The Next Mrs. Wimberly

“Our pasts have a way of slithering into our present and if we don’t learn to heal it’ll impact our future, too.”
― Monica Arya, The Next Mrs. Wimberly

“Except, no one truly knows why you are the way you are. For me, I was already fifty shades of fucked up before I could even legally drink.”
― Monica Arya, The Next Mrs. Wimberly

“I suppose when you hate your life so much, you just allow yourself to be vulnerable, just like an open wound not tended to. You put yourself at risk for infection and the problem with infection is that it spreads. It takes over more than you ever thought was possible. Just like when someone sees your vulnerability, they find that wound and use it as a starting point to consume you.”
― Monica Arya, The Next Mrs. Wimberly

“A snake can shed its skin countless times, but in the end, it’ll still always be a snake.”
― Monica Arya, The Next Mrs. Wimberly

“The problem is once someone breaks your trust, no matter what form of honesty comes out of their mouth, you’ll always assume it’s nothing more than a lie.”
― Monica Arya, The Next Mrs. Wimberly

“Second, anyone who tells you they will make your dreams come true, will in fact make your nightmares come alive.”
― Monica Arya, The Next Mrs. Wimberly

“I always felt alone, yet in the most challenging moments of my life, there was always a strong woman right there for me, filling the void. And that’s what I swore I’d do in my life.”
― Monica Arya, The Next Mrs. Wimberly

“Most of all, I’ll be thankful because as long as I have air in my lungs, I’m going to remind myself to just breathe.”
― Monica Arya, The Next Mrs. Wimberly

“I realized that when you have nothing to lose, you fight the hardest. Because you want to have a chance to find something worth living for…something you can’t afford to lose.”
― Monica Arya, The Next Mrs. Wimberly

“Fear consumes you and manipulates you to believe you aren’t strong enough for what’s to come. But the thing about fear is, it’s often based on fact. Even if slightly construed, it is derived from something that you were anticipating. You just have to hope it doesn’t find you when you’re already knocked down because if it does…you’ll never have a chance to stand back up.”
― Monica Arya, The Next Mrs. Wimberly

“The only way to know if someone is trustworthy is by giving them your trust. They will either protect it or destroy it.”
― Monica Arya, The Next Mrs. Wimberly

“It was true, there were moments in life that would change your destiny forever, and those were moments you wanted to celebrate loudly. But every major milestone in my life felt… quiet.”
― Monica Arya, The Next Mrs. Wimberly

“The problem with being in love with someone is that you choose to make yourself vulnerable to them. You put the floodgates down and then, before you know it, the gushing waves come crashing towards you, drowning you and throwing you off guard. That’s why you never, ever put your guard down, and you never, ever love someone more than you love yourself. After all, everyone dies and leaves you, except for you.”
― Monica Arya, The Next Mrs. Wimberly

“If there is one thing I know with certainty, it’s that the two most powerful forces in the world are love and grief. Because when you’ve had either, or both, you’ll never, ever be the same.”
― Monica Arya, The Next Mrs. Wimberly

“Their retirement from kidnapping, raping, murdering, and gutting innocent women. Sipping piña coladas and having no remorse was the end-game.”
― Monica Arya, The Next Mrs. Wimberly

“She had never been there with me. She was an illusion from stacks of photos of her and a simple note that spoke louder than anyone else had in my life.”
― Monica Arya, The Next Mrs. Wimberly

“Noah and Liam took turns on their massive yachts carrying the bodies they couldn’t burn, disposing them in the middle of the ocean where no one would ever dare to look. Those were the nights they’d host lavish dinner parties on said yachts. The night Noah proposed to me was the night he had disposed of at least three girls. My stomach twisted at that.”
― Monica Arya, The Next Mrs. Wimberly

“Brooke, I came from nothing, too. Don’t you see...? That’s what they look for. We are all planned. This isn’t love or coincidence; they handpicked each of us. No family, no friends, no connections, and if you have them, they’ll use it against you.”
― Monica Arya, The Next Mrs. Wimberly

“How can you be married to a man who rapes women in front of you? How can you be married to a man who is dissecting and taking humans away from their families?”
― Monica Arya, The Next Mrs. Wimberly

“You really tell yourself that don’t you? That all these women had it coming? What about those young girls who weren’t married to Noah? What did they ever do to deserve this?”
― Monica Arya, The Next Mrs. Wimberly

“Being an adult meant losing your freedom. Chained to bills, jobs, marriages, social relationships—chained to a chair in the basement of a multi-million-dollar mansion in front of your husband’s first wife,”
― Monica Arya, The Next Mrs. Wimberly

“The Red Market. Illegally obtaining organs and selling them. All for what? For these mansions that were filled with nothing but hollow souls.”
― Monica Arya, The Next Mrs. Wimberly

“You were such a good wife… I’m sad you had to be fucking nosy and find out. I had no intention of bringing you down here.”
― Monica Arya, The Next Mrs. Wimberly

“Looking down at the two-piece loungewear outfit I had on—which was three hundred dollars—I wanted to strip it all off me. This was all funded by blood money. Actual blood money.”
― Monica Arya, The Next Mrs. Wimberly

“Countless patients eagerly wait for organ donations, unsuccessfully. Often times in this illegal business, the victims are those who are impoverished, or addicts looking for financial gain, not understanding the extent these “Organ Brokers” will go to for monetary gain.”
― Monica Arya, The Next Mrs. Wimberly

“This man was sick; he was a psychopath. He was clearly doing something unethical and illegal. Fear dripped through every part of my body. My husband was possibly a serial killer surgeon. Where was he finding these innocent girls? Was Riya one of them? What was he doing with these organs?”
― Monica Arya, The Next Mrs. Wimberly

“and my best friend—who was bartending for tuition, and living in a shitty apartment in the worst part of New York—was smiling at me proudly.”
― Monica Arya, The Next Mrs. Wimberly

“Why did I always feel like he was interrogating me? It was a strange sensation, one I couldn’t find the words to describe nor pinpoint what I really meant.”
― Monica Arya, The Next Mrs. Wimberly

“Well, that and if you’re a human being with a soul, which was something I had begun to realize many of the wealthy didn’t have.”
― Monica Arya, The Next Mrs. Wimberly