Liz Fenton > Quotes

“A true best friend loves you even when it seems like you've gone off the deep end.”
― Liz Fenton, The Status of All Things

“You make all your mistakes with your own children so by the time your grandchildren arrive, you know how to get it right. Plus, once you turn fifty, you kind of stop giving a shit what others think.”
― Liz Fenton, The Year We Turned Forty

“It's an unwritten rule that best friends take care of each other, and best friends' husbands understand.”
― Liz Fenton, The Status of All Things

“As humans, we often let our egos rule our decisions. We let fear stop us from reaching our true potential. We forget about love. But the heart, it never forgets. No matter what happens, no matter how hard things get, it always remembers.”
― Liz Fenton, The Year We Turned Forty

“Sometimes you have to fight like hell for something, even when you doubt you deserve it.”
― Liz Fenton, The Year We Turned Forty

“A very wise person once told me marriage is hard, that you have to keep fighting for it everyday.”
― Liz Fenton, The Status of All Things

“You have such a difficult time showing your heart," she muses. "You think being strong is the only way to survive. You never know when to ask for help. You never have.”
― Liz Fenton, The Two Lila Bennetts

“Sometimes the truth has to hit us over the head before we can see it.”
― Liz Fenton, The Status of All Things

“It’s ridiculous how your life doesn’t need your permission to turn upside down.”
― Liz Fenton, The Good Widow

“Be careful what you wish for, people. You just might get it.”
― Liz Fenton, The Status of All Things

“Wouldn't it be nice if we could get rid of hurtful feelings and memories the same way we so easily send a bad picture sailing into our computer's trash can?”
― Liz Fenton, The Status of All Things

“She can kill with a smile She can wound with her eyes She can ruin your faith with her casual lies And she only reveals what she wants you to see She hides like a child But she’s always a woman to me —Billy Joel”
― Liz Fenton, The Good Widow

“fear only lives where you let it.”
― Liz Fenton, The Good Widow

“one thing I do know for sure is that people’s lives are not always as perfect as the filtered photos or edited statuses they post on Facebook.”
― Liz Fenton, The Status of All Things

“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. #truth”
― Liz Fenton, The Status of All Things

“But ironically, he should also realize that you have an incredible ability to make him feel like his imperfections are the best part of him.”
― Liz Fenton, The Status of All Things

“Maybe this is what she had meant—that the status of all things in my life would have to first get messy in order for them to get better.”
― Liz Fenton, The Status of All Things

“James and I had eight years together, but in many ways we hadn’t even made it out of the gate, like a racehorse that gets spooked by the sound of the gun. So many things had held us back.”
― Liz Fenton, The Good Widow

“never-seeing-another-vagina monogamy?”
― Liz Fenton, The Good Widow

“Life wasn't meant to be played like a game of chess, moving the people you love like pawns to win the game.”
― Liz Fenton & Lisa Steinke

“The person who boarded that flight from LAX to Maui was weak. She was scared. Now I feel strong. Not quite indestructible, but much more durable. Like I used to be that crappy paper towel they show in the commercial, and now I’m the five-ply one. I used to break easily when there was a spill. Now I can mop up almost any mess. Pour that shit on me. I can handle it.”
― Liz Fenton, The Good Widow

“It’s all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies; our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh, what about forgiving our friends?” —Willa Cather, My Mortal Enemy”
― Liz Fenton, Girls' Night Out

“I've figured out a funny little secret about life: Even if you stay on the sidewalks and pay your bills on time and use hand sanitizer, bad things still happen. Yes, maybe you can cut your odds by playing it safe. By attempting to predict each and every possible pitfall. But your fate will still find you, no matter how much you hide from it.”
― Liz Fenton, The Good Widow

“Now I feel strong. Not quite indestructible, but much more durable. Like I used to be that crappy paper towel they show in the commercial, and now I’m the five-ply one. I used to break easily when there was a spill. Now I can mop up almost any mess. Pour that shit on me. I can handle it.”
― Liz Fenton, The Good Widow

“But it's not my job to know the truth; it's my duty to give my clients the defense they are legally entitled to.”
― Liz Fenton, The Two Lila Bennetts

“To realize you can love a person and not know them at all. To start to question everyone and everything in your life. What else do you not know? Who else is keeping things from you?”
― Liz Fenton, The Good Widow

“I notice it’s decorated in mostly cool grays and whites with a touch of”
― Liz Fenton, The Good Widow

“the margaritas she’d had earlier were emboldening her. They were delicious, not to mention they eased her tension, and she could already tell her usual two-drink limit would not be standard in Mexico for both those reasons.”
― Liz Fenton, Girls' Night Out

“When the Revlon offer came in last month, she recognized the Natalie from twenty years ago, the one who didn’t take no for an answer. Why she had resurfaced now?”
― Liz Fenton, Girls' Night Out

“She wanted to get to Maui and erase the rest of the world. To lie on the beach and daydream about what it would be like if James weren’t married, or if she were the most important woman in his life—something she thought about often, but was reluctant to bring up to James in any serious way.”
― Liz Fenton, The Good Widow