Margot Hunt > Quotes

“Believing anything in life is fated is just a way to avoid taking responsibility.”
― Margot Hunt, For Better and Worse

“If insanity was a side effect of Botox, every Floridian over the age of forty would be nuts.”
“Who says they're not?”
― Margot Hunt, Best Friends Forever

“Joe was the only good thing that had happened since we’d moved to Shoreham. But I couldn’t stay in a town where my daughter and I had both become pariahs for the sake of a relationship with a man I’d only just met.”
― Margot Hunt, Lovely Girls

“Don’t wish away time,” I said. “No matter how hard it is right now. It passes by quickly enough on its own.”
― Margot Hunt, Lovely Girls

“Why is it some people are allowed to go through the world, hurting whomever they please, and never face the consequences?”
― Margot Hunt, The Guests

“Don't wish away time. No matter how hard it is right now. It passes by quickly enough on its own.”
― Margot Hunt, Lovely Girls

“Nora felt the familiar sensation of a sick tightening in her stomach. She was about to hear something she didn’t want to know. It was a sixth sense she’d developed over the years of her marriage, always waiting for the next catastrophe. Like the time Carter had called from the police station after he was arrested for drinking and driving. Or when the hospital called to tell her he’d been admitted to the emergency room after falling at a bar and hitting his head. Just last week, she’d gotten a letter from the bank informing her that their account was overdrawn, and she still hadn’t gotten a straight answer from Carter about that. She’d learned over the years that sometimes it was easier to let things go, to not examine them too closely. The strategy clearly didn’t work. Nora just ended up blindsided.”
― Margot Hunt, The Last Affair

“Could I have a dozen everything bagels and a one-pound container of cinnamon-raisin cream cheese?” I asked in a forced cheery tone.”
― Margot Hunt, Lovely Girls

“The truth was, you have no idea how you'll handle grief until it presents itself.”
― Margot Hunt, Lovely Girls

“Other people had kind, supportive mothers who helped them when their lives shattered into pieces. I had the sort of mother who turned to me at my husband’s funeral and said, “You have no idea how hard all of this has been on your father and me. Ed was like a son to us.”
― Margot Hunt, Lovely Girls

“My mother was incapable of empathy or kindness. She had never been someone I could lean on for support.”
― Margot Hunt, Lovely Girls

“wondered when I would get used to being alone. Other than Alex, I didn’t have anyone in my life. No one I could call up and say, “Hey, I just need to hear a friendly voice,” and then chat with about nothing or everything for a half hour. How had this happened?”
― Margot Hunt, Lovely Girls

“Of course I am! I’m twenty-five. You’re so sweet.”
― Margot Hunt, The Guests

“No one is all good or all bad. Everyone's a shade of gray.”
― Margot Hunt, Lovely Girls

“That's just it. Things can always get worse.”
― Margot Hunt, Lovely Girls

“Things can always get worse.”
― Margot Hunt, Lovely Girls

“This was why I went through life in such a lonely state. I thought terrible things. And then those terrible things came true.”
― Margot Hunt, Lovely Girls

“it’s human nature to make excuses for behavior we can’t understand.”
― Margot Hunt, Lovely Girls

“We make these huge decisions when we’re in our 20s. Who we’re going to marry, what we’re going to be, how we’re going to spend the rest of our lives, and yet, we have no real perspective. The 25 year old me had no clue what the 45 year old me would end up wanting and needing in life.”
― Margot Hunt, The Last Affair

“no one is all good or all bad.”
― Margot Hunt, Lovely Girls