The Husband's Secret Quotes

Falling in love was easy. Anyone could fall. It was holding on that was tricky.

You’ve been here before. It won’t kill you. It feels like you can’t breathe, but you actually are breathing. It feels like you’ll never stop crying, but you actually will.

You could try as hard as possible to imagine someone else’s tragedy – drowning in icy waters, living in a city split by a wall – but nothing truly hurt until it happened to you. Most of all, to your child.

Tragedy made you petty and spiteful. It didn’t give you any great knowledge or insight. She didn’t understand a damned thing about life except that it was arbitrary and cruel, and some people got away with murder, while others made one tiny careless mistake and paid a terrible price.

Only a man could come up with something so ruthless: so essentially stupid and yet brutally effective.

None of us ever know all the possible courses our lives could have, and maybe should have, taken. It’s probably just as well. Some secrets are meant to stay secret forever.

Marriage was a form of insanity; love hovering permanently on the edge of aggravation.

It was like she was thinking, How far can I go with this? How much more can I fit in my life without losing control?

Happy endings always made her cry. It was the relief.

Everyone knew that a stolen kiss was the most erotic thing in the world.

A son is a son until he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter for all of her life.