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“Marriage was a gamble. We all knew that. You were cashing in your chips on someone you hoped you didn’t hate twenty years down the line. We all change; we just had to hope that we would change in sync, in parallel.”
― Asia Mackay, A Serial Killer's Guide to Marriage

“They weren't interested in me when it came to my actual life, only how it might affect their lives.”
― Asia Mackay, A Serial Killer's Guide to Marriage

“I never felt lonelly, until I realized how complete I felt with Fox by my side.”
― Asia Mackay, A Serial Killer's Guide to Marriage

“Maybe the whole trouble was that I had been expecting too much of him. After all, he was a man.”
― Asia Mackay, A Serial Killer's Guide to Marriage

“I am well aware an ability to end multiple lives and not be affected by it is an unusual character trait.”
― Asia Mackay, A Serial Killer's Guide to Marriage

“They didn’t know fear, as they’d never had to face it.
The world was theirs for the taking. Women were the ones who had to be careful— to not put our safety at risk, to not take up too much room, to not make our voices too loud.”
― Asia Mackay, A Serial Killer's Guide to Marriage

“I wasn’t completely sure I liked people. I mean, understandable. I’d mostly met really shitty ones.”
― Asia Mackay, A Serial Killer's Guide to Marriage

“All the things us girls are taught: avoid dark places, don’t have headphones on, wear modest clothes, be on the lookout, view every man as a threat. Men had never been given any such lessons; they’d blindly follow a strange woman anywhere, such was their desperation to get their rocks off and their deep-seated belief they were invincible. There could be a sign on the door saying “Torture Chamber,” the sounds of rattling chains and knives sharpening, and they’d still skip in there, unbuckling their belts. They didn’t know fear, as they’d never had to face it.”
― Asia Mackay, A Serial Killer's Guide to Marriage

“It was just the two of us for so long, and I know all these changes have taken some adjusting to. But I think it’s time to add someone else into the mix. Someone who will help take our marriage back to where it should be.” Was he planning a threesome or saying we needed a shrink?”
― Asia Mackay, A Serial Killer's Guide to Marriage

“This was new for me. Helping women with words, not weapons.
The PG-13 version of revenge. Yawn.”
― Asia Mackay, A Serial Killer's Guide to Marriage

“An offering from the gods: a bad man to pay the price for all the bad men before him. It was beautiful. It was what I needed. It was what this world needed. One less scumbag.”
― Asia Mackay, A Serial Killer's Guide to Marriage

“Hunt, kill, hold hands. That was our love language, and we knew exactly how to keep the passion burning bright. Our date nights weren’t like other people’s date nights.”
― Asia Mackay, A Serial Killer's Guide to Marriage

“Not long after we’d moved here, when at a dinner at Caro’s house, I’d given one explanation for what the + in LGBTQIA+ stood for and just like that I’d been established as the neighborhood expert on anything “woke.”
― Asia Mackay, A Serial Killer's Guide to Marriage

“Later, when Jenny had taken Felix to “poo corner” to relieve himself, the little bully from earlier ran past me. I stuck out my leg and watched as he tripped over it. He barely touched the ground, but the shock was enough to make him snivel. I went to help him up. “Oh, it’s okay, little man!” I said loudly. I leaned down and whispered, “Every time you hit someone, something bad will happen to you.”
― Asia Mackay, A Serial Killer's Guide to Marriage

“I had found my Mr. Right to help me take out all those Mr. Wrongs.”
― Asia Mackay, A Serial Killer's Guide to Marriage

“The club was heaving. The music was terrible. I wanted to leave immediately.”
― Asia Mackay, A Serial Killer's Guide to Marriage

“I was a fearless champion of women, but I really struggled to get them to like me. Ironic?”
― Asia Mackay, A Serial Killer's Guide to Marriage

“Maybe this was what life in the suburbs was like. Anyone who looked too happy was about to die or clearly cheating.”
― Asia Mackay, A Serial Killer's Guide to Marriage

“I think homelessness has always been a problem. Perhaps you’ve just never noticed it before because it wasn’t on your doorstep?” Raquel put a hand to her mouth. “You’re totally right, Haze. I am so sorry I didn’t check my white privilege.”
― Asia Mackay, A Serial Killer's Guide to Marriage

“Faking it in the bedroom—unacceptable. Faking it in the kitchen—commendable.”
― Asia Mackay, A Serial Killer's Guide to Marriage

“You’re lucky Bibi is such an unusual name.” “She’s named after my grandmother Sabina.” “How lovely. Were you close?” “Oh yes.” I took a glug of wine. “She was the only member of my family who wasn’t a total cunt.”
― Asia Mackay, A Serial Killer's Guide to Marriage

“Who gets murdered the most? Women. Who kills the most? Men. Here I was, doing my absolute best to try and even the scales. And straight white men were the pinnacle of the food chain. The most privileged, entitled, unworthy. Why should they hold all the power? I wasn’t smashing the patriarchy; I was killing it.”
― Asia Mackay, A Serial Killer's Guide to Marriage

“I’ll be back soon…I…I ran out of Tampax.” “I got you a new box yesterday.” “Do you know how quickly we go through these things?” I needed an excuse. If it meant making my husband think women changed tampons every hour, then so be it.”
― Asia Mackay, A Serial Killer's Guide to Marriage

“Fitting in with the rich was easy compared to being invisible with the poor.”
― Asia Mackay, A Serial Killer's Guide to Marriage

“Her PMS had definitely gotten worse since Bibi—I’d once had the bravery to comment on it and her response was if I wasn’t going to let her stab people then “what the fuck did I expect?”
― Asia Mackay, A Serial Killer's Guide to Marriage

“A police badge never magically made a bad man good—it made him worse. He’d use it to help him do more, get away with more.”
― Asia Mackay, A Serial Killer's Guide to Marriage

“But I wasn’t going to kill Bill.”
― Asia Mackay, A Serial Killer's Guide to Marriage

“We all had secrets, so who was I to judge? Especially as my secrets were fourteen dead men. Yes, you read that right. Fourteen. But you know what? They all deserved it.”
― Asia Mackay, A Serial Killer's Guide to Marriage

“Friendship was a wonderful thing. It was so much easier to destroy someone when you had all the inside info you could hope for.”
― Asia Mackay, A Serial Killer's Guide to Marriage

“I still wasn't totally sure how we'd ended up here. I didn't know what I wanted. I just knew it couldn't carry on like it was. He didn't get to let me down so spectacularly and not tell me the truth about why.”
― Asia Mackay, A Serial Killer's Guide to Marriage