Family Quote by Debbie Macomber

“That was not her husband; she knew him, and that was not him. But of course she didn’t really know him.”

— Chris Pavone

“You could tell those two had been married by the way that she ignored him.”

— Lindsey Davis

“He'd believed it. She couldn't believe that he believed it. Sometimes, she hated him for that.”

— Marie Rutkoski

“What she did know, unfortunately, was that she had to reconsider everything she'd ever willed herself to believe about her husband.”

— Chris Pavone

“And now, she knew her husband had lied to her. So many years, following him to so many places, and he had repaid her…

— Roxane Gay

“He considered telling her that she could, and often, if she married him.”

— Melanie Dickerson

“Nonsense. He'd wed her in a heartbeat if he thought she'd have him.”

— Sarah MacLean

“For just this moment, he wanted her to see him for who he was, without the pity he knew she'd feel when she found…

— Travis Neighbor Ward

“She regretted the explanation immediately, but that was because she always regretted everything. And then, after the regret had flared and burned out, she…

— Nick Hornby

“He'd told her she was his. That he was jealous and he wasn't sharing her. Where the hell had that come from? He didn't…

— Lynn Raye Harris

“Her husband seemed to her now like a person whom she had married without love as an excuse.”

— Kate Chopin

“She didn’t know what to make of this sporadic urgency with him. It had confounded and humiliated her for the thirty years of their…

— Ayana Mathis