The Next Mrs. Parrish Quotes

“A picture may be worth a thousand words, but it didn’t hold a candle to seeing something with your own eyes.”
― Liv Constantine, The Next Mrs. Parrish

“See what I mean. You just proved my point. You’re nothing but an alley cat disguised as a purebred.”
― Liv Constantine, The Next Mrs. Parrish

“Intelligence could be as much of an aphrodisiac as looks, if not more so.”
― Liv Constantine, The Next Mrs. Parrish

“Impatient people don’t wait for things to happen. They make them happen.”
― Liv Constantine, The Next Mrs. Parrish

“After years of having to borrow books from the library, the thrill of being able to buy any book she wanted never dulled for her. She made notes in their margins, underlined passages, inked her name inside each cover. They were her treasure…and her passport to the world.”
― Liv Constantine, The Next Mrs. Parrish

“sometimes there’s no such thing as a happy ending. Yes, there’s the blessed relief of freedom from tyranny and terror, but the scars live on.”
― Liv Constantine, The Next Mrs. Parrish

“He is a master of self-deception, believing in his own twisted rhetoric. A man who could believe that any means justifies the ends is capable of anything. I wonder once again how he ended up this way. Did someone damage him or was he simply born that way? But I can’t muster any empathy or sympathy for him. He’s taken too much from me for that.”
― Liv Constantine, The Next Mrs. Parrish

“I didn’t know until it was too late. I thought he was wonderful at first. He swept me off my feet. He charmed my family, made me feel like the most special person in the world. By the time he showed his true colors, I couldn’t get away.”
― Liv Constantine, The Next Mrs. Parrish

“At the time, I let his charm and my attraction to him drown out the voice of reason. It was all too good to be true. If only it hadn’t been a masquerade, we’d still be a family.”
― Liv Constantine, The Next Mrs. Parrish

“Good manners are not to be taken on and off like pearls.”
― Liv Constantine, The Next Mrs. Parrish

“As for doing everything right, you won’t. But it’ll be okay, because you’ll do the most important thing right and that is love him with all you’ve got.”
― Liv Constantine, The Next Mrs. Parrish

“Think big, but act with humility. There was something exceptional about men who could be trailblazing leaders and still possess the common touch.”
― Liv Constantine, The Next Mrs. Parrish

“The only thing revealing about her outfit was what it brought out in their character.”
― Liv Constantine, The Next Mrs. Parrish

“Shh, shh now. It’s gonna be fine. That little boy doesn’t know it, but he just won the mama lottery. You are the kindest, most warmhearted woman I know. And when he needs someone to fight for him, there’s nobody better he could ever have in his corner.”
― Liv Constantine, The Next Mrs. Parrish

“Now women were joining the ranks of power holders, and Amber was one of them. She didn’t have to put up with any garbage, didn’t have to stroke anyone’s ego, didn’t have to be with someone she didn’t want. Amber got to call the shots. This is what it felt like to be a man, she thought, and it felt damn good.”
― Liv Constantine, The Next Mrs. Parrish

“pseudomacho misogynist piece of shit.”
― Liv Constantine, The Next Mrs. Parrish

“that Florence hadn’t spoken to her daughter since”
― Liv Constantine, The Next Mrs Parrish

“tirade about Jackson. Anytime one of the girls brings”
― Liv Constantine, The Next Mrs. Parrish

“Charm is making the person you're talking to feel like the only person in the room.”
― Liv Constantine, The Next Mrs. Parrish

“Regret is a wasted emotion.”
― Liv Constantine, The Next Mrs. Parrish

“cachet. That’s why she turned down all that”
― Liv Constantine, The Next Mrs. Parrish

“there’s no point in regretting something that can’t be changed. Regret is a wasted emotion.”
― Liv Constantine, The Next Mrs. Parrish

“They were her treasure…and her passport to the world.”
― Liv Constantine, The Next Mrs. Parrish

“Charm is making the person you’re talking to feel like the only person in the room.”
― Liv Constantine, The Next Mrs. Parrish

“For Sean and Christopher Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. —William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well, act 1, scene 1”
― Liv Constantine, The Next Mrs. Parrish

“Amber got to call the shots. This is what it felt like to be a man, she thought, and it felt damn good.”
― Liv Constantine, The Next Mrs. Parrish