A Familiar Stranger Quotes
"It's important to examine why you are trying to uncover their cheating. Is it to solve and heal problems in your relationship? Or are you setting them up for justification for your own mistakes?"
"In Los Angeles, coffee shops were the dating pools."
"Sometimes they didn’t. Sometimes you scraped away the top layer of a prick, and underneath was just more of the same."
"I wasn’t a particularly attractive woman. But in Los Angeles, you had to wear armor or you were devoured."
"It was nice, wearing the skin of another woman, even if I was the only one who knew of her intricacies."
"Was he who I really wanted to spend the rest of my life with?"
"What did my life look like without my job? What did I look like?"
"I worked one foot, then the other, into my pants. Okay, I could do this. I just needed to get to my car and get to Fran and find out what was going on."
"My identity was rooted in being a wife, a mother, in having his support, his feedback."
"Was the bulk of my existence, my happiness, balancing on him?"
"Maybe it was time for @themysteryofdeath to die. I couldn’t see continuing it, without my job."
"Without hesitating, he zoomed toward me, and there was a freeze-worthy moment when I thought he was going to kiss me."
"I laughed as if I hadn’t spent two hours in front of the mirror."
"I’d tell you exactly what happened, but then . . . well. You know."
"Killing you would be a pain. You look like you’d put up a pretty good fight."
"There are some things a husband doesn’t need to know."
"I actually got this exact same one for my mailman."
"I’m sorry, mon chaton. I just cannot control myself around you."
"I’m tempted to fade away, to shield myself from this."
"Is there ever a good place to tell your son that his mother is dead?"
"I won’t be at his wedding. Won’t hold his child."
"I didn’t realize that that conversation would be our last."
"Now Mike delivers the news with slow, carefully chosen words."
"My stoic boy, my boy who never cries at anything, begins to loudly sob."
"I used to be a man of few tears, but Marcella’s death broke that dam."
"Marcella regarded her blankly. 'Attention, I guess. I’m dying, in case you weren’t aware.'"
"I’m not sure I’m supposed to recognize it, so I keep a blank look on my face."
"The husband is always a suspect, especially in a case where the wife is unfaithful."
"I did love Lillian. I may be a lot of things—a liar and a cheat—but I did love my wife."
"I’m trying not to panic, because reckless emotion doesn’t help anything."
"How do you justify murder? I had two reasons: jealousy and revenge."
"I solemnly swear to never buy you another minuscule-size pumpkin latte."
"Tomorrow belongs to the people who plan for it today, and I planned for this day for years."
"Intelligence is hot. Intelligence, money, and power are sexy as hell."
"We make the best decisions we can with what we have."
"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail."
"Sometimes I do that—I give this smug smile that, as my father once said, makes someone want to 'section off my lips with a bolt cutter.'"
"I didn’t just like Lillian; I grew to love her."
"I’m just a piece of the puzzle that puts it together and gets it into a reader’s hand."