Madeline : “I love my grudges. I tend to them like little pets.”
Madeline : And bring me something chocolate that won’t make my ass look fat.
“When someone you loved was depending on your lie, it was perfectly easy.”
Madeline : You know how I feel about riding with texters. It is worse than drinking and driving.
“The only woman who deserved a philandering husband was a philandering wife.”
Celeste : My life isn’t perfect, Madeline, bad things have happened to me. I do understand the concept.
“Reading a novel was like returning to a once-beloved holiday destination.”
“There’s a difference between heartbroken and damaged,” said Ed. “You were sad and hurt. Maybe your heart was broken, but you weren’t broken.”
“It had never crossed her mind that sending your child to school would be like going back to school yourself.”
Madeline : Come meet my knight in shining armor. She rescued me like a wounded dog in the street. And you know what else? She’s funny.
“All conflict can be traced back to someone’s feelings getting hurt”
“They say it’s good to let your grudges go, but I don’t know, I’m quite fond of my grudge. I tend it like a little pet.”
Madeline : “Sometimes I’m just holding onto this idea of perfection so tight, something has to give.”
“First kisses didn’t necessarily require darkness and alcohol, they could happen in the open air, with the sun warm on your face and everything around you honest and real and true.”
“All conflict can be traced back to someone’s feelings getting hurt, don’t you think?”
Madeline : “I am a lady and I’ve never said this to anybody in my entire life but I’m gonna say it to you: You can go f*ck yourself on the head.”
“Overtired five-year-olds needed to be handled like explosive devices.”
Madeline : “I might have kissed him back. It was like a reflex you know somebody kisses you you kiss them back. I might have grabbed his ass. I don’t know, it all just happened so fast.”
“Everyone wanted to be rich and beautiful, but the truly rich and beautiful had to pretend they were just the same as everyone else. Oh, it was a funny old world.”
“Those we love don’t go away, they sit beside us every day.”
“When you divorce someone, you divorce their whole family, Madeline had told her once.”
Renata : She doesn’t need to know it’s a therapist. Some of the best ones now dress up as clowns. She could think it’s another birthday surprise.
“The boys had always been her reason to stay, but now for the first time they were her reason to leave. She’d allowed violence to become a normal part of their life.”
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