Natalie Barelli > Quotes

“So, there you go, when people make snide comments at you, criticize your choices, are always quick to judge, maybe it’s not you they resent, maybe they’re just scared.”
― Natalie Barelli, The Accident

“Some days it's hard not to feel used and spat out in this world.”
― Natalie Barelli, Unfaithful

“am inconsolable, wretched, heartbroken that my very dear friend Beatrice is dead. Which is kind of odd considering I’m the one who killed her.”
― Natalie Barelli, Until I Met Her

“The past is a nice place to visit, but don’t go buying real estate there. It’s overrated. The future is better.”
― Natalie Barelli, Finders Keepers

“Sometimes, when I take the time to think about it, which admittedly isn’t often, I do think I’m strange.”
― Natalie Barelli, The Housekeeper

“There’s a particular kind of grief that takes hold when a friendship dies. When your best friend, someone you trusted to love you, turns out to be your enemy. It’s as if one of the anchors that grounds you in this world has come undone. I sure hope there’s a special kind of hell for people like that.”
― Natalie Barelli, The Loyal Wife

“but the question still remains. What does it take for a person to persist from one time to another—to continue existing rather than cease to exist? Once upon a time I would have said loathing. That’s how you keep someone alive. You keep them in your head and you hate them till you can’t stand it anymore and still you gnaw at them and watch them grow. But now I don’t know, and I don’t care. I’m done with all that. I’m blessed with the people I love. I’m one of the lucky ones.”
― Natalie Barelli, The Housekeeper

“ideas have been known to hop from head to head until they find a willing host.”
― Natalie Barelli, Unfaithful

“This fear, it’s weighing me down every minute, every second. And fear has friends, too, called Guilt and Shame. They’re like a crew, the three of them. They hang out together, causing mayhem inside my head.”
― Natalie Barelli, The Accident

“but underneath we’re a bunch of hyenas who’d do anything for a scrap of recognition.”
― Natalie Barelli, Unfaithful

“It’s about how relationships, no matter how solid, can turn on the smallest of events. Something you thought was strong and anchored and for ever can unravel in the blink of an eye. Which is when you realize that all along it was weak and unmoored and ephemeral and you were just a moron to believe otherwise.”
― Natalie Barelli, Unfaithful

“is”
― Natalie Barelli, The Housekeeper

“the”
― Natalie Barelli, The Accident

“I sat in my car, shaking, and to this day, I’m not sure why I did what I did. Actually, that’s not true. I wanted to protect him. Or that’s what I told myself afterwards. For a long time afterwards in fact. But I know now, that I wanted to protect what I had. I didn’t want to give it up. My marriage, this life, my place in it”
― Natalie Barelli, The Loyal Wife

“Clearly, the only way to deal with this new reality is to go along with it.”
― Natalie Barelli, The Housekeeper

“Every day I say something like, If you don’t have time, I can get the plumber in, and every day he assures me that’s a waste of money and he’ll do it himself.”
― Natalie Barelli, Unfaithful

“Nobody likes you, Joanne. Do you know why?” I shake my head. “Neither do I. But nobody does. Not even God.” Then she straightens and walks away, laughing.”
― Natalie Barelli, The Housewife

“But to be furious, murderously furious, is to be alive. — Claire Messud, The Woman Upstairs”
― Natalie Barelli, Until I Met Her

“gaggle of Barmbies.”
― Natalie Barelli, Unfaithful

“Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned,”
― Natalie Barelli, The Loyal Wife

“because it is nice to be wanted.”
― Natalie Barelli, Unfaithful

“and”
― Natalie Barelli, Missing Molly

“few days”
― Natalie Barelli, The Housekeeper

“barring any exceptional circumstances, tardiness can only be attributed to one of two personality traits: laziness or narcissism, neither of”
― Natalie Barelli, The Accident

“It never occurred to me I was about to move in with a bigger nut job than me, and that’s saying something.”
― Natalie Barelli, Finders Keepers

“All this time I thought I was the star of the show, it turns out I was just the supporting act.”
― Natalie Barelli, Unfaithful

“leaving me in the kitchen with a stained apron, sweating over a three-course gourmet meal for my husband and his floozy. Only then does it occur to me that maybe I didn’t think this through.”
― Natalie Barelli, Unfaithful

“My mother especially. Who does that? Dies like that? Gives up, knowing that she’s leaving two children behind who’ll never be right again?”
― Natalie Barelli, The Housekeeper

“Sometimes, in my darkest hour, I believe that I will meet so few people in my life who will truly love me that when I find one, I have to hold on to them with everything I have.”
― Natalie Barelli, Unfaithful

“laugh. “Imagine that! A serial killer getting picked up by a⁠—”
― Natalie Barelli, The Housewife