The Wife Upstairs Quotes
"There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about." - Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"It’s not like I give a fuck about her, either."
"I remind myself that walking dogs sucks, but at least it doesn’t carry the threat of second-degree burns."
"The apartment is cheap and not in a terrible part of town, but sometimes it feels like living in a little concrete box."
"You’re staying in Mountain Brook?" he asks, and I raise my eyebrows, making him laugh. "Is this creepy? The third-degree thing?"
"That’s the part that stands out to me most, how casually he orders an entire bottle of wine."
"You may not make this e-book publicly available in any way."
"What mattered is that he could’ve just ordered takeout, but instead, he’d put some effort into the night."
"I’m replaying it all in my head to convince myself that there wasn’t any sign of what would happen next."
"You’re rich now, Bea. And not, like, normal person rich. You are on your way to having Fuck You Money, and this guy knows it."
"You don’t get it. You’re rich now, Bea. And not, like, normal person rich."
"I didn’t know sheets could actually smell soft, but Eddie’s do."
"You’re welcome to use my card to get whatever you need."
"What’s the point of having it if my girl can’t spend it, hmm?"
"It’s the first time I’ve heard my own name in weeks."
"If I try to guess at his reasons or his motives, I’ll go crazy."
"No one can be judged for the books they buy in airports."
"We keep so many things in our brains. More than men do."
"I’m sorry," I say. "Eddie, your wife was murdered. It’s not going to be okay. It can’t be."
"She hadn’t come to Hawaii to meet a guy. She’d come to sit in the sunshine and drink overpriced frozen cocktails."
"This isn’t supposed to be about me," I say, tilting my head up to look at him. "Sorry."
"Bea hadn’t approved of the trip to Hawaii. ‘It’s tacky,’ she’d told Bea."
"Thinking about work calmed her as it always did, made her brain cease that constant circling."
"If you really don’t want to, we don’t have to," I said, keeping my voice steady. "But I want to. I want you to understand that. I want this, Eddie. I want you."
"It’s just so weird," she says. "Tripp could be an asshole when he drank, don’t get me wrong, but he wasn’t violent. And he loved Blanche."
"I’d made my choice, made my family, and I was closing the door on all of it."
"And most importantly, now I was certain: no one knew what had really happened in Phoenix."
"If so, I almost don’t blame him for doing it."
"You are smarter than I ever gave you credit for, I’ll allow that. But this is over now."
"Killing someone and letting them die are two different things."
"I still just can’t believe Tripp Ingraham could have killed his wife and her best friend."
"The stressful part is always making the decision. Once you’ve made it, it’s done, and you feel better."
"I hadn’t lost him after all. It surprises me how much that thrills me."
"You really didn’t do anything new with the place, did you?"
"He loved you. That was the piece that made it all make sense."
"I’m not tailoring my reaction for someone else. I’m free."
"I didn’t know you could love someone, but also not know them at all."
"Maybe this was all just some kind of extended hallucination."
"All I’m looking at are the numbers. It’s all of it, I can tell."
"She’s out there still, and she knows I know the truth."
"It’s weird and more than a little off-putting to feel any sympathy for Tripp Ingraham."
"I remind myself that when Bea opened the door to the panic room, there was a whoosh and a wall of flame."