Her First Child Quotes

“Love was a fickle beast, wasn't it, transient and painful, twisted, possessive. It could drive people to all sorts of madness, even murder”
― Sheryl Browne, Her First Child

“It was a classic tactic. She'd lived with it, lived her childhood with people who were masters at deflecting blame to justify their own monstrous behaviour”
― Sheryl Browne, Her First Child

“But do you have to be in constant contact to prove your friendship?" he asked. "It's just that in my opinion, a good friend is someone who's there if you need them but who also respects your boundaries”
― Sheryl Browne, Her First Child

“The sad fact was that sometimes you simply had to give up on people. Not because you didn't care, but because they didn't”
― Sheryl Browne, Her First Child

“She couldn't put her finger on when it had started to go wrong between them, when he'd started noticing all the things she apparently did wrong rather than all the nice things she tried to do for him. When he'd stopped seeing her as a human being. It had happened day by day, drip by drip, until she felt as if who she was had been washed away”
― Sheryl Browne, Her First Child

“Her husband had been a monster, but there'd been no one else in her life since, as far as Eve knew. But then she'd been damaged by a marriage that had been made in hell. That much had finally become obvious to Eve. She herself had been damaged too, and now she wanted no part of her past creeping back to harm her family”
― Sheryl Browne, Her First Child