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> [“No one except your husband knows of the cautiousness at the heart of your life. Your adulthood has been a progressive retreat from curiosity and wonder, an endless series of delays and procrastinations. You wanted to be so much, once,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikki-gemmell/no-one-except-your-husband-knows-of-the-cautiousness-at-the-heart-of/)

[Nikki Gemmell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikki-gemmell/)

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## More by Nikki Gemmell

> [“Striding, finally, into the solitude. You feel as if part of your body has been ripped from you, as if flesh has been torn…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikki-gemmell/striding-finally-into-the-solitude-you-feel-as-if-part-of-your-body/)

[Nikki Gemmell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikki-gemmell/)

> [“So, he feels now, that he doesn't have to try. And you want him more than you ever have before.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikki-gemmell/so-he-feels-now-that-he-doesn-t-have-to-try-and-you-want-him-more/)

[Nikki Gemmell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikki-gemmell/)

> [“She can't catch on to slumber, the relief of oblivion.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikki-gemmell/she-can-t-catch-on-to-slumber-the-relief-of-oblivion/)

[Nikki Gemmell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikki-gemmell/)

> [“Let there be no hesitations, no regrets, no compromises - they are at once cowardly and vain.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikki-gemmell/let-there-be-no-hesitations-no-regrets-no-compromises-they-are-at/)

[Nikki Gemmell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikki-gemmell/)

> [“You know in this moment that Gabriel is at your mercy, you can do what you want, he is completely yours and with the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikki-gemmell/you-know-in-this-moment-that-gabriel-is-at-your-mercy-you-can-do-what/)

[Nikki Gemmell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikki-gemmell/)

> [“There were the endless birthday nights and New Year's Eves of just you in your bed and no one else. There was the welling…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikki-gemmell/there-were-the-endless-birthday-nights-and-new-year-s-eves-of-just/)

[Nikki Gemmell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikki-gemmell/)

> [“An emptiness when you realize the loneliest you've ever been is within a marraige, as a wife”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikki-gemmell/an-emptiness-when-you-realize-the-loneliest-you-ve-ever-been-is/)

[NIkki Gemmell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikki-gemmell/)

> [ “\[He\] starts to talk and stops, feeling his way, as if it's all clogged up rusty inside.” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikki-gemmell/he-starts-to-talk-and-stops-feeling-his-way-as-if-it-s-all-clogged-up/)

[Nikki Gemmell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikki-gemmell/)

> [“The shame dies. Just like that, so DH Lawrence wrote. Shame, which is fear. AND judgement.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikki-gemmell/the-shame-dies-just-like-that-so-dh-lawrence-wrote-shame-which-is/)

[Nikki Gemmell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikki-gemmell/)

> [“Have faith in the wisdom of that we call change”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikki-gemmell/have-faith-in-the-wisdom-of-that-we-call-change/)

[Nikki Gemmell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikki-gemmell/)

> [Our natural and happiest life is when we lose ourselves in the exquisite absorption of home.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikki-gemmell/our-natural-and-happiest-life-is-when-we-lose-ourselves-in-the-2/)

[Nikki Gemmell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikki-gemmell/)

> [Is it love, obsession, infatuation? You don't know. You think of a strange and beautiful word you read about once, Limerance, a psychological term,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikki-gemmell/is-it-love-obsession-infatuation-you-don-t-know-you-think-of-a/)

[Nikki Gemmell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikki-gemmell/)

> [People without curiosity are like houses without books: there's something unsettling about them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikki-gemmell/people-without-curiosity-are-like-houses-without-books-there-s/)

[Nikki Gemmell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikki-gemmell/)

> [“You don't dare to think ahead too much, for you don't want this melted under the heat of your attention, don't want it gone…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikki-gemmell/you-don-t-dare-to-think-ahead-too-much-for-you-don-t-want-this-melted/)

[Nikki Gemmell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikki-gemmell/)

> [Alone you're refinding a glittering, a clarity, you're finding your distilled self. ...You think of the two types of aloneness you've known recently: this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikki-gemmell/alone-you-re-refinding-a-glittering-a-clarity-you-re-finding-your/)

[Nikki Gemmell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikki-gemmell/)

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