The Housemaid's Secret Quotes
"But I have carefully scrubbed down every single one of these unused appliances, cleaned the refrigerator, put away several dozen dishes, and mopped the floor until it’s shiny enough to almost see my reflection."
"I’ve got a pedicure. I need you to keep an eye on Olive while I’m gone."
"She has complained to me that Mr. Degraw will not allow her to hire a full-time nanny because she herself does not work."
""This is so unfair!" Amber cries. "I breastfed her for over a week! Isn’t that worth anything?""
""I heard it’s going to snow again next week," he adds. "Eight inches are forecasted. One last hurrah before the spring.""
""It’s not as sensational a story though, is it?" Brock lets go of my hand and throws an arm around my shoulders."
"Apartments in Manhattan do not have two floors. But apparently, this one does."
""I’m Millie." I start to raise my hand and then realize it’s not going to be possible while holding the laundry hamper, so I put it down. "I’m your new cleaner.""
""Some of us need money to pay the rent," I raise my eyes to glare at him."
""I wouldn’t ask you," Amber says, "if it wasn’t important.""
""My last boyfriend was the one who convinced me to follow the career path to social work—so I could help people in need while staying within the confines of the law.""
""I understand what you must do." And that was it. That was the end. Just like that, we were over."
""Millie?" Brock’s voice is coming out of my phone. "Millie? Are you there?""
"I tiptoe as close as I dare to the bedroom, straining to hear them."
"That restaurant is awfully romantic for you and a friend, isn’t it?"
"This is bullshit," he hisses. "I’m not going to allow my tramp wife to go all around town with some other man! It’s humiliating."
"There is no messing around anymore. Whatever is happening in that room, I have got to stop it."
"Douglas goes slack seconds after the gunshot rings out through the apartment."
"I didn’t mean to kill him," I sputter. "I… I was just trying to get him to take his hands off of you."
"You need to leave." Wendy rises to her feet, even though her legs look shaky.
"I sort of have a, you know, a prison record."
"Millie, that’s awful. Do they know who did it?"
"I’m not going to get arrested, Brock assures. We’re going to sort this out."
"You were furious with him and you shot him in anger with his own gun."
"No wonder you never got your college degree," he mutters to himself.
"I’m sorry," I say again. "But I was scared if I did, you would look at me like… well, the way you’re looking at me right now."
"Douglas isn’t terrible in the same way as Ginger’s husband was—he’s not physically abusive."
"Douglas is being a sadistic asshole, and he needs to pay for the way he’s been treating me."
"Douglas isn’t moving at all, and the puddle beneath him keeps growing."
"You get ten million dollars if we divorce. But the prenup says that if I have evidence of you cheating, you get nothing."
"I’ve already got pictures, videos… you name it."
"You might be able to get your old job back," Douglas says thoughtfully.
"He tried to take everything from me and leave me destitute, and now he will get what he deserves."
"All this money got in the way of our marriage. We have too much."
"You weren’t happy before. You cheated on me. We were completely disconnected."
"I don’t even know why we need all this money. I don’t even want it!"
"Douglas doesn’t understand that. He will never understand that."
"I’ve never shot a gun before, but it always seemed self-explanatory."
"I’m sorry. I truly am. I wish we could have made it work."
"You really think you can pin all this on Millie? Watch me."
"He does not seem like someone you would like."
"Who you are is not something you did when you were a teenager."
"That woman, she is the assistant to Douglas Garrick. And she is the wife of the man you are looking for."
"I will not give up. No matter what happens, I will not give up. I will get you free."
"You have to know, Douglas was abusive. I was telling you the truth."
"You didn’t cut in front of him in line at the movie theater. You murdered him! He’s dead because of you!"
"Everyone makes mistakes. I feel terrible for the things I’ve done. And now I have to live with it."
"You deserve worse. You are a truly despicable person. And you deserve to die in a painful and horrible way."