JoAnn Chaney > Quotes

“And while she might complain about her husband, and sometimes she actually hated him, he was still better than every other man she'd ever dated. And maybe that was love. The body's chemical reaction to finding a person who irritates you less than everyone else.”
― JoAnn Chaney, As Long as We Both Shall Live

“Love is fleeting, after all. But stuff - stuff lasts forever.”
― JoAnn Chaney, As Long as We Both Shall Live

“And maybe that was love. The body’s chemical reaction to finding a person who irritates you less than everyone else.”
― JoAnn Chaney, As Long as We Both Shall Live

“Gloria leans against the armchair wearily, pulls her legs up to her chest and settles her forehead against her knees. She looks like a girl when she sits like this, young and vulnerable, the girl she used to be. The girl hiding behind the couch while her father held a gun in her mother’s face.”
― JoAnn Chaney, What You Don't Know

“Love’s got teeth, it’s got claws, and once it hitches you to a person it’s so tough to rip yourself free. Marriage, she thought, might just be a crock of shit.”
― JoAnn Chaney, As Long as We Both Shall Live

“If you try to kill your wife without a plan, you will fail.”
― JoAnn Chaney, As Long as We Both Shall Live

“This is all there’ll ever be, forever and ever. I’m going to get old and wrinkled and ugly, and I’ll still be showing women how to contour their cheekbones and fill in their eyebrows. Sammie is taking antidepressants.”
― JoAnn Chaney, What You Don't Know

“Seever didn’t seem picky. It was a detail they hadn’t released, Hoskins had even kept it from Sammie because she’d run it in an article if she had the chance. He thinks he might love Sammie, but love doesn’t mean he’s stupid. Sammie believes people should be told everything, that nothing should be held back, but not for the common good—just her own.”
― JoAnn Chaney, What You Don't Know