Evelyn Hugo Quotes

“It is two A.M., and you are tired. You miss the love of your life. You want to go home. You would rather be with her, in bed, hearing the light buzz of her snoring, watching her sleep, than be here.
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You imagine a world where the two of you can go out to dinner together on a Saturday night and no one thinks twice about it. It makes you want to cry, the simplicity of it, the smallness of it. You have worked so hard for a life so grand. And now all you want are the smallest freedoms. The daily peace of loving plainly.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“All I’ve ever wanted was for you to be truly mine. But you’ve never been mine. Not really. I’ve always had to settle for one piece of you. While the world gets the other half. I don’t blame you. It doesn’t make me stop loving you. But I can’t do it. I can’t do it, Evelyn. I can’t live with my heart half-broken all the time.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“I made it fifty-fifty. Which is the cruelest thing you can do to someone you love, give them just enough good to make them stick through a hell of a lot of bad.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“There are people who see a beautiful flower and rush over to pick it. They want to hold it in their hands, they want to own it. They want the flower’s beauty to be theirs, to be within their possession, their control.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid

“It cost so much, caring. I didn't have any currency to spend on it.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“I was the sort of beautiful that women knew they could never truly emulate. Men knew they would never even get close to a woman like me.
Ruby was the elegant, aloof sort of beauty. Ruby was cool. Ruby was chic.
But Celia was the sort of beautiful that felt as if you could hold it in your hands, like if you played your cards right, you might just get to marry a girl like Celia St. James.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“People think that intimacy is about sex. Bit intimacy is about truth. When you realise you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is " You're safe with me" - that's intimacy.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“No," she told me, "They are just husbands. I am Evelyn Hugo. And anyway, i think once people know the truth, they will be much more interested in my wife.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reidr Jenkins

“You do not know how fast you have been running , how hard you have been working, how truly exhausted you are, until someone stands behind you and says, "It's OK, you can fall down now. I'll catch you". So I fell down. And Harry caught me.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Never let anyone make you feel ordinary”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“—Todos deberíamos hacer muchas cosas, cariño. Peor el mundo no funciona así.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Nadie es completamente bueno o malo. Lo sé, por supuesto. Tuve que comprenderlo a una edad muy temprana. Pero a veces es fácil de olvidar lo cierto que es. Eso se aplica a todos. (...) Esa es Evelyn Hugo. Alguien que está entre dos extremos.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“I'm OK with the fact that sometimes doing the right thing gets ugly”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Isn't that the very definition of power? Watching people kill themselves over something that means nothing to you.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“So do yourself a favor and learn how to grab life by the balls, dear. Don't be so tied up trying to do the right thing when the smart thing is painfully clear.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“I know the whole world prefer a woman who doesn't know her power”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“When you're given an opportunity to change your life, be ready to do whatever to takes to make it happen. The world doesn't give things, you take things.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“It would take me years to figure out that life doesn't get easier simply because it gets more glamorous.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“It was as if I was too wholesome to understand the unwholesome thoughts you were having about me”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“People don't find it very sympathetic or endearing, a woman who puts herself first”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“When you are rich, parts of your house don't really feel like they are yours”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Maybe in ready for that. To be a real friend. True blue.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“My dearest CeCe,
Please never forget that the sun rises and sets with your smile. At least to me it does. You're the only thing on this planet worth worshipping.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Don't do things you're not good at”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“I can love a man, Celia. I can go marry any man I want and have children and be happy. And we both know that wouldn't come easily for you.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“I should have chased her down the street the day she left me. I should have begged her to stay. I should have apologized and sent roses and stood on top of the Hollywood sign and shouted, "I'm in love with Celia St. James!" snd let them crucify me for it.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“She was always jealous of the men, worried she couldn't compete. I was jealous of the women, worried I wouldn't compare.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“But it was a solvable problem, and solvable problems aren't really problems, are they?”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Pasé la mitad de mi tiempo amándola y la otra mitad ocultándola cuánto la amaba”
― Taylor Jenkis Reid

“Pasé la mitad de mi tiempo amándola y la otra mitad ocultando cuánto la amaba”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid