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

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

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

“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

“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

“gaggle of Barmbies.”
― 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

“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

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

“You see, it’s not about self-affirmations so much as being a nice person. Be nice to people, they’ll be nice to you back. Humanity 101. As if.”
― Natalie Barelli, The Loyal Wife

“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

“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

“dehydrated,”
― Natalie Barelli, Missing Molly

“What does it take for a person to persist from one time to another—to continue existing rather than cease to exist?”
― Natalie Barelli, The Housekeeper

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

“Sometimes I think keeping my baby was my one and only act of defiance. After that, I became more of a people-pleaser. Finding out at a young age how dependent you are on others will do that to you.”
― Natalie Barelli, The Accident

“Why is it always 3:00 a.m., I wondered, when the dark, silent world of naked truth slides in beside us in bed, keeping us from the relief of sleep?”
― Natalie Barelli, Until I Met Her

“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

“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.”
― Natalie Barelli, The Loyal Wife

“I am so overwhelmed with love for them that it makes my eyes swim. I will never stop striving to keep my family together. It’s what courses through my veins, this craving to be everything that my mother wasn’t, to keep my children safe, and happy. My kids will never grow up thinking they’re unloved, or unwanted, or not enough for either of their parents.”
― Natalie Barelli, Unfaithful