Sheryl Browne > Quotes

“We’re not all besties – the age gap and the fact that I’m their superior doesn’t allow it – but we are friends, and I value that.”
― Sheryl Browne, The Marriage Trap

“David had made up his mind he would always buy his wife what she wanted rather than something that might disappoint her.”
― Sheryl Browne, Do I Really Know You?

“The rawness of loss diminishes eventually, but the pain is always with you, a tidal wave of grief when you least expect it.”
― Sheryl Browne, The Second Wife

“I need to get in touch with the real me, the person I used to be, who felt she could climb a mountain, touch the sky or swim an ocean. She didn’t die the day she got married. She got side-lined, that was all. She’s still here inside, waiting to unfurl her wings.”
― Sheryl Browne, The Marriage Trap

“Cole”
― Sheryl Browne, My Loving Husband

“Her husband had been a monster, but there'd been no one else in her life since, as far as Eve knew. But then she'd been damaged by a marriage that had been made in hell. That much had finally become obvious to Eve. She herself had been damaged too, and now she wanted no part of her past creeping back to harm her family”
― Sheryl Browne, Her First Child

“Love was a fickle beast, wasn't it, transient and painful, twisted, possessive. It could drive people to all sorts of madness, even murder”
― Sheryl Browne, Her First Child

“I’d tried to tell myself I didn’t care, but how does one just stop caring for someone?”
― Sheryl Browne, My Husband's House

“I’d never imagined myself succumbing to a state of emotional abandonment where I lost all rational thought, my sense of identity. Lost sight of me. It happens gradually, subtly and insidiously, until you really do believe the madness is ‘all in your mind’.”
― Sheryl Browne, The Second Wife

“He’ll learn that lies are what hurt most, in time.”
― Sheryl Browne, The Second Wife

“regretfully”
― Sheryl Browne, The Affair

“From that came self-doubt. That was the negative emotion that ultimately destroyed people, stifled them and robbed them of all they could be.”
― Sheryl Browne, The Affair

“Beautiful things make life worth living. Pain and sorrow turns to wisdom in time.”
― Sheryl Browne, The Affair

“She’d blamed herself for his cheating on her, just as she’d blamed herself for everything. She’d had no regard for herself in the end, only a self-loathing hatred that she could have been so pathetic, allowing someone to control her, subtly at first and then ultimately. Financially, sexually, he’d stripped her of everything. She had a long way to go to trust herself again completely. But she really did feel she could trust this man, who’d showed her how to love again, how to accept that she was attractive enough to be loved. He’d given her back her self-esteem.”
― Sheryl Browne, The Second Wife

“But do you have to be in constant contact to prove your friendship?" he asked. "It's just that in my opinion, a good friend is someone who's there if you need them but who also respects your boundaries”
― Sheryl Browne, Her First Child

“need to point out the consequences of”
― Sheryl Browne, Trust Me

“She couldn't put her finger on when it had started to go wrong between them, when he'd started noticing all the things she apparently did wrong rather than all the nice things she tried to do for him. When he'd stopped seeing her as a human being. It had happened day by day, drip by drip, until she felt as if who she was had been washed away”
― Sheryl Browne, Her First Child

“How could she ever have risked her child’s future, her life, been naive enough to imagine that if she closed her eyes to it, it would all go away? She’d made bad decision after decision. She’d been so stupid and weak.”
― Sheryl Browne, The Affair

“her.”
― Sheryl Browne, The Affair

“It was a classic tactic. She'd lived with it, lived her childhood with people who were masters at deflecting blame to justify their own monstrous behaviour”
― Sheryl Browne, Her First Child

“Fly high little bird,’ she whispered. ‘Know that a little piece of my heart flies with you.”
― Sheryl Browne, The Second Wife

“The sad fact was that sometimes you simply had to give up on people. Not because you didn't care, but because they didn't”
― Sheryl Browne, Her First Child