S.M. Thayer > Quotes

“In short, I know he’ll do with her everything he has failed to do with me.”
― S.M. Thayer, I Will Never Leave You

“However many times that snake sheds her skin, she’ll always be a snake.”
― S.M. Thayer, I Will Never Leave You

“Can any man be as good as you think he is?”
― S.M. Thayer, I Will Never Leave You

“many times that snake sheds her skin, she’ll always be a snake.”
― S.M. Thayer, I Will Never Leave You

“Following my mother’s death, I forgave him for his egregious philandering, which compounded the misery of my mother’s last years.”
― S.M. Thayer, I Will Never Leave You

“He’s the only man I could imagine spending my life with, but I’ve always questioned if I can really trust him.”
― S.M. Thayer, I Will Never Leave You

“my parents, Tully and Belinda Bloom. I haven’t seen them since police locked me up in juvenile detention as a tenth grader for helping myself to a pair of iPhones at the local Best Buy. I did it at their urging, palming items that could be pawned off to pay for their financial shortfalls. On parole themselves for a variety of offenses and fearful of what a “corrupting the morals of a minor” conviction might mean to their personal liberties, they swore to the court they had no prior knowledge of what I was doing, and I, too naive for my own good, said nothing to contradict their lies. It was my third offense in six months, a tipping point that landed me a three-month juvenile detention stint. Although I didn’t know it at the time, my parents’ own legal issues would make it unfeasible for me to be released back into their custody when I completed my initial sentence. So three months became six months. Which became a year. Which was extended until I reached my eighteenth birthday.”
― S.M. Thayer, I Will Never Leave You

“My father had multiple affairs during the course of his marriage. A woman internalizes these things. A father’s infidelity teaches a girl that, ultimately, as a woman, she’s disposable. A mother’s silence about her husband’s infidelities teaches acceptance.”
― S.M. Thayer, I Will Never Leave You

“The way my father stood idly watching her decline was criminal but not prosecutable.”
― S.M. Thayer, I Will Never Leave You

“That’s what’s so unsettling. From the moment you slipped her into my arms at the hospital, I could tell she was wonderful, perfect, an absolute angel. It was like I had a baby-sized hole in my heart she snuggled into perfectly. Don’t you see? She’s all I ever wanted: a baby of my own. She should have been the baby we were meant to have. You and me.”
― S.M. Thayer, I Will Never Leave You

“Obfuscation is my game. I need to cast suspicion in as many quarters as possible if I’m to have a long-term hope of deflecting suspicion from myself.”
― S.M. Thayer, I Will Never Leave You

“Oh, honey. They’re not real. They’re like everything else I ever had: pretty but worthless.”
― S.M. Thayer, I Will Never Leave You

“There are no guarantees in life. No amount of optimism, no amount of ac-cent-tchu-ating the positive can raise the dead, guarantee happiness, or prevent us from becoming poor and destitute, but I’ll always have my Anne Elise.”
― S.M. Thayer, I Will Never Leave You

“There’s only so much one person can do to keep hold of another person, and I’m doing everything I can.”
― S.M. Thayer, I Will Never Leave You

“Trish, you’re not an ogre. Divorce me so I can be a daddy.”
― S.M. Thayer, I Will Never Leave You

“thought myself superior to her because I was drug-free, but I’ve succumbed to the cruelest drug of all: love.”
― S.M. Thayer, I Will Never Leave You

“Ideally, you should accept happiness as it comes, but happiness is the most relative of all emotions: no matter how happy you might be, the mind always swerves to other situations that could make you even happier”
― S.M. Thayer, I Will Never Leave You

“Jimmy Wainsborough had the consoling grace to realize that however bad he or any of us might have screwed up in the past, we need not give up our faith in what the future holds for us.”
― S.M. Thayer, I Will Never Leave You

“A man with two women in his life is a fool.”
― S.M. Thayer, I Will Never Leave You

“So, yes, my father’s affairs affected me, and yet I was never mad at him; I was mad at my mother. All my resentment and bitterness, even that which I was too angry to verbally express, was directed at her.”
― S.M. Thayer, I Will Never Leave You

“Ideally, you should accept happiness as it comes, but happiness is the most relative of all emotions: no matter how happy you might be, the mind always swerves to other situations that could make you even happier;”
― S.M. Thayer, I Will Never Leave You

“My father had multiple affairs during the course of his marriage. A woman internalizes these things. A father’s infidelity teaches a girl that, ultimately, as a woman, she’s disposable. A mother’s silence about her husband’s infidelities teaches acceptance. Yes, I was affected by it.”
― S.M. Thayer, I Will Never Leave You

“If the choice is fighting or dying, I choose fighting.”
― S.M. Thayer, I Will Never Leave You

“just Valium. To keep me calm while I sit waiting for you to do the right thing,”
― S.M. Thayer, I Will Never Leave You

“I was locked up for three years because I didn’t want you to get in trouble for sending me into stores and shoplifting things for you. Don’t you know how bad that is? To have your own daughter locked up because you can’t take responsibility for your own mistakes?”
― S.M. Thayer, I Will Never Leave You