Do You Remember? Quotes
"An ice pick is jabbing me in my right temple."
"This always happens when I have too much wine at night."
"But after a few seconds, the pain dulls to a mild ache behind my right eye. Bearable."
"I mean, a divorce is easy. But splitting up this house would be such a hassle."
"The diamond was small, but the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen in my life."
"Please marry me, Tess," he said. "You’re my whole life."
"I rest a hand gently on the blanket covering my fiancé. (Does that sound pretentious? I love saying it.)"
"I’m not even thirty yet—it seems like I should be able to drink a little wine without feeling like a decrepit old lady the next morning."
"But now it’s been replaced. By a sleek white toilet that appears to have a bidet attachment."
"Did Harry and I install a bidet on the night of our engagement?"
"Harry could sleep through an earthquake, but especially when he’s had a few drinks."
"I have never seen this man before in my life."
"You can… reshape my eyebrows any way you like."
"The idea of this man even touching me makes my skin crawl."
"Don’t trust the man who calls himself your husband."
"I can’t just sit here, twiddling my thumbs, wondering if the man I woke up next to in bed this morning is some sort of imposter."
"Even though I would’ve sworn I didn’t know how to delete text messages, I swipe my finger on the screen, and almost instinctively, I hit the delete button."
"But no. I’ve probably never shared this hot tub with Harry. I’ve only been in it with Graham. But the thought of sitting in this tub naked with that man makes me sick to my stomach."
"I wonder if I’ve gotten these text messages before."
"I’m not sure what to say to that. It’s the last thing I expected him to say."
"The man looks up at the Nissan. Even though he’s got on his sunglasses, I can feel his eyes on me. He’s staring right at me."
"I have to suppress my excitement. I certainly can’t tell Camila about the text messages I got this morning or give her any inkling that I’m meeting someone."
"I never asked what season it is, but I surmised from all the leaves in our backyard that it must be early fall."
"But either way, I intend to find out the truth."
"A muscle twitches in my jaw. "It’s not safe? I’m a grown woman. What do you think I’m going to do?""
"I can’t ignore the feeling that she’s lying to me."
"That’s what losing the love of your life does to you."
"As soon as we get to the supermarket and I’m out of her sight, I’m going to the dog park myself."
"I can’t help but notice all the appreciative looks Camila gets as we walk to the supermarket together."
"My brain is suddenly fuzzy. What she’s telling me… it can’t be true. I did get a text from Harry today. He told me to meet him at the dog park. I saw him there. He looked right at me. I didn’t imagine that."
"I pull up my sleeve to reveal the number I scribbled there earlier."
"The hardest part is when you talk about that guy Harry a lot."
"But that doesn’t make any sense. Because in that scenario, I was meeting Graham for the first time while he was applying for a job at my company. But that’s not how we met at all."
"I want to run, but I’m not kidding myself that I’m going anywhere with this guy blocking the entrance."
"I’m calling 911. You can’t keep me prisoner here."
"I feel dizzy. I need to lean against the wall to keep from passing out."
"I will never forget how happy he looked when I said yes."
"I’ve never had a seizure before, at least none that I remember. I didn’t enjoy it."
"I can’t imagine making love to this man tonight."
"I nearly throw it, but instead, I hold it out to Graham to take from me."
"That phone number scrawled on my arm didn’t work."
"But once she unlocks that door, there’s not much she can do."
"We thought it was better if you heard about the accident in your own words."
"I pick up the frame. It’s the two of us on a beach somewhere."
"You don’t know what it feels like to wake up every morning and your wife is sobbing for some guy who treated her like shit."
"You don’t have to make up any stories. I mean, look at what you do for me every day. You could have dumped me in a nursing home somewhere. But instead, you do everything you can to make me happy. You are my hero."
"I’m sorry. I’m your husband, not your father. I shouldn’t be telling you what to do."
"They did surgery. To remove some of the blood from your brain. That’s why we had to cut your hair, but it’s mostly grown back."
"We weren’t engaged back then, but we knew it was coming."
"I’m not trying to drug you. You have to believe me."
"It’s not okay! I miss my life. I miss Harry. Please…"
"Just remember that the people around you care about you very much, and only want you to be safe."
"Please help me. Please… I need my life back…"
"I’ll come for you in the morning and we’ll do something fun."
"In my head, I’m engaged to someone else. Someone I love."
"Nobody would want to trade places with me. I do not have a good life. Not anymore."
"Is it possible something is going on between Lucy and Graham?"
"I'm beginning to think that I did have a phone."
"Is there a reason I keep losing my memory every night, beyond my head injury?"
"This isn’t so bad, Tess. You have a good life, despite everything."
"I’ve got to send myself a message with a warning."
"I thought we were going to spend our lives together."
"I am supposed to be married to him right now."
"If I hadn’t seen him kiss her, I would be married to him right now."
"I have no idea what Graham is capable of, but Lucy would never do that to me."
"It's not like we have any sort of a real relationship anymore."
"I've got a meeting downtown right now. When I get back, you better be gone."
"I’m going anyway. Whether you meet me or not."
"I don’t know if I ever told you this, because I thought you might find it weird. But the second I saw you at that computer store, I thought to myself, ‘This is the woman I’m going to spend the rest of my life with.’ I’m glad I was right."
"The company isn’t what’s important. I don’t want to waste another second on it."
"Every job has its boring moments, doesn’t it?"
"In some ways, it’s easier not to have anybody. I have less to lose."
"Because once it’s gone, it’s all you can think about. It’s hard to be happy after that."
"I’m capable of chopping a few vegetables, Graham. I’m not going to hurt myself."
"You don’t deserve any of his lies. You deserve the truth."
"Now that I know how little is left, I don’t want to waste any time."
"This is what I want. I don’t want to fight with him about the company. I want to sign the papers and be done with it."
"I don’t want to waste another moment of the time I have left."
"I’m going to make the time we have together the best time of your life."
"The tumor burden was significantly reduced following the chemotherapy."
"But there’s time to learn. There’s time for everything now."