Tammy

“I love you,’ I whispered, and I will never forget his clumsy reply: ‘And me you too, I think.’ Not a ringing endorsement, especially when I’d just given him my virginity, but I forgave him. I always forgave him. No matter what.”
― Jess Ryder, The Ex-Wife

“Because what Miranda represents . . . it’s dead, as dead to me as Gwen’s marriage is to her. I tell myself that, even as I recognize that Melvin’s ghost has never stopped haunting either one of us. Dead doesn’t mean gone.”
― Rachel Caine, Wolfhunter River

“I told her that Nick had changed the locks on the house and cancelled all my cards. ‘He’s done what?! You’re kidding me.’ Her voice hit the high notes. ‘Utter shit, utter, utter shit. Mind you, it doesn’t surprise me for one second. That’s why I just caved in when he wanted me to leave. I knew he’d play dirty if I fought him.”
― Jess Ryder, The Ex-Wife

“And perhaps it is different for men than women. We don’t lose interest in sex the way women do. At least, I thought that’s how it was. Given what you’ve just told me, maybe it’s not that you don’t like sex, you just don’t like it with me.”
― Lucy Dawson, White Lies