Tammy

“But two years on, replaying the moment in my head and knowing what I now knew, I realised I’d seen the truth that day. Nick hadn’t wanted a family, not one that included me, anyway. He’d just wanted a baby.”
― Jess Ryder, The Ex-Wife

“Sometimes, we do things we don’t feel good about to survive. It doesn’t mean you’re a bad person.” His sympathy, his assurance had brought her perilously close to tears. But she couldn’t cry about this. She had known what she was getting into. No strings.”
― Robyn Harding, The Arrangement

“Forgive before they do, and nothing can get to you.”
― Matthew Edward Hall

“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