Angela Henry > Quotes

“My dear, just because something seems implausible doesn't make it impossible. Think about how long people believed the world was flat.”
― Angela Henry, The Paris Secret

“But I’d meant what I’d told his new girlfriend. He was tainted. Being with him again would be like eating soup with a dead fly floating in it.”
― Angela Henry, Her Pretty Lies

“There’s something that happens to you when you’ve been living under someone’s thumb for so long and you finally find yourself with some freedom.”
― Angela Henry, Her Pretty Lies

“not to mention the wrongness of what we were doing made it feel so good.”
― Angela Henry, The Perfect Affair

“But this time it wasn’t Beth. Because, as I’d just discovered, Beth had never been a student at Roberson.”
― Angela Henry, The Perfect Affair

“Gaslighting is a form of emotional abuse, Mrs. Nichols. It alters your sense of reality.”
― Angela Henry, The Perfect Affair

“When I told Paige I’d never slept with Cara, I was telling the truth. But I wanted to, badly. Instead, we’d been making out like teenagers every chance we got.”
― Angela Henry, The Perfect Affair

“Baby, what is for you will not ignore you,” meaning if it was meant to be, it wouldn’t have passed me by.”
― Angela Henry, The Perfect Affair

“I’d put”
― Angela Henry, The Perfect Affair

“Without waiting for a reply, I brushed past her, eager to get away from both Cara and Natalie Drew, the woman who’d been my mentor and friend in college. Until I’d slept with her husband. And almost ruined my life.”
― Angela Henry, The Perfect Affair

“hadn’t wanted to talk”
― Angela Henry, The Perfect Affair

“Oh, I feel you, man. I get it. But let me give you a piece of advice you didn’t ask for and probably don’t want.” “What’s that?” I eyed him warily, in no mood for a lecture. “I’ve been down this road many times. Loved having a wife and raising a family but always had a chick on the side. My wife Marion finally told me to either get help or get out. We were in marital counseling and things were better than they’d ever been. We were like newlyweds again. Then she died suddenly of a heart attack in her sleep and part of me died with her.” “Damn, Bill. I’m sorry, man. I had no idea your wife had died.” “Last year. A week before our fortieth anniversary. All those years chasing tail when I could have spent it with her.” He shook his head. “Cherish you wife, Aaron. You don’t know how much time you’re going to have with her.”
― Angela Henry, The Perfect Affair

“Babe, you ate that whole thing? It must have been at least a thousand calories.” The look I gave him could have curdled milk.”
― Angela Henry, The Perfect Affair

“Marriage is messy and not always easy. Either you suck it up and deal with it, or you leave. You don’t betray your vows.”
― Angela Henry, The Perfect Affair

“I held my hands over her face until she’d stopped breathing.”
― Angela Henry, The Perfect Affair

“And, you know what, babe?” I got up and threw my napkin on the table. “It was easily the best thing about tonight because your company was shitty. I’d have had more fun with a coma patient.” I left him there and took an Uber home. Worst birthday, ever.”
― Angela Henry, The Perfect Affair

“I just had my head too far up my ass to care.”
― Angela Henry, The Perfect Affair

“Things got better, right?” “They did. But like I said, it came at the cost of my peace.”
― Angela Henry, The Perfect Affair

“I asked, wondering what type of lunatic thought being able to move a dead body alone was a flex.”
― Angela Henry, The Perfect Affair