Stephanie Madoff Mack > Quotes

“Life, they showed me, could go on no matter how unpredictable, no matter how unfair.”
― Stephanie Madoff Mack, The End of Normal: A Wife's Anguish, a Widow's New Life

“I just hate that every f’g time I start to feel normal, something bad happens.”
― Stephanie Madoff Mack, The End of Normal: A Wife's Anguish, A Widow's New Life

“what if I had never met him, never loved him, never lost him?”
― Stephanie Madoff Mack, The End of Normal: A Wife's Anguish, A Widow's New Life

“I could never tell when the tears were going to suddenly flow, and I hated the thought of breaking down in public.”
― Stephanie Madoff Mack, The End of Normal: A Wife's Anguish, A Widow's New Life

“Survival is a matter of balance.”
― Stephanie Madoff Mack, The End of Normal: A Wife's Anguish, A Widow's New Life

“My soul predictably cycles through denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance and then loops back around again, but children don’t follow this route; they don’t “process” feelings. They feel them. When sadness hits them, they literally stop in their tracks to react, and then move on.”
― Stephanie Madoff Mack, The End of Normal: A Wife's Anguish, A Widow's New Life

“I kept having to remind myself that Mark wasn’t coming back, too.”
― Stephanie Madoff Mack, The End of Normal: A Wife's Anguish, A Widow's New Life