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Not Quite a Husband (The Marsdens, #2) QUOTES

1 " Sometimes limbs must be re-broken to set properly, her heart too needed to shatter anew before it could truly heal. "

― Sherry Thomas , Not Quite a Husband (The Marsdens, #2)

2 " I had this daft idea to come and bury the past. Except the past is not quite dead. "

― Sherry Thomas , Not Quite a Husband (The Marsdens, #2)

3 " Outwardly, other than her hair, she had not changed much. She was still more or less the same cool, aloof woman who garnered more respect than affection. On the inside, however, it had been impossible to return to the person she used to be. "

― Sherry Thomas , Not Quite a Husband (The Marsdens, #2)

4 " For the thousandth time he wished he’d just met her. That they were but two strangers traveling together, that such lovely, filthy thoughts did not break him in two, but were only a pleasant pastime as he slowly fell under the spell of her aloof beauty and her hidden intensity.
…
But no, they’d met long ago, in the furthest years of his childhood. Their chances had come and gone. All they had ahead of them were a tedious road and a final good-bye. "

― Sherry Thomas , Not Quite a Husband (The Marsdens, #2)

5 " To the beginning of the rest of our lives.
—Leo "

― Sherry Thomas , Not Quite a Husband (The Marsdens, #2)

6 " The Castle. He’d seen this expression far too many times during their marriage. The Castle was Bryony drawing up the gates and retreating deep into the inner keep. And he’d always hated it. Marriage meant that you shared your goddamn castle. You didn’t leave your poor knight of a husband circling the walls trying to find a way in. "

― Sherry Thomas , Not Quite a Husband (The Marsdens, #2)

7 " He’d gone into their marriage determined that she would never be alone again. In the end, she’d made him as alone in the world as she. "

― Sherry Thomas , Not Quite a Husband (The Marsdens, #2)

8 " He glanced at her. “You were the moon of my existence; your moods dictated the tides of my heart.”

The tides of her own heart surged at his words, even though his words were nothing but lies. "

― Sherry Thomas , Not Quite a Husband (The Marsdens, #2)

9 " Her Leo, so bright, so beautiful.
And in the end, so catastrophically flawed. "

― Sherry Thomas , Not Quite a Husband (The Marsdens, #2)

10 " Dear Bryony,
There are many things I wish I had time to tell you, so I will say just this: These past few days have been some of the best days of my life. Because of you.
My fervent hope is that you are safe and well as you read this letter. That you will have all the happiness I wish I could have shared with you. And that you will remember me not as a failed husband, but one who was still trying, til the very end.
Yours always,
Leo "

― Sherry Thomas , Not Quite a Husband (The Marsdens, #2)

11 " It doesn’t matter where I am; I’m yours. "

― Sherry Thomas , Not Quite a Husband (The Marsdens, #2)

12 " A reflection of their story: imperfect, but to him the most beautiful of stories. "

― Sherry Thomas , Not Quite a Husband (The Marsdens, #2)

13 " Even the boy who cried wolf was right about the wolf once. "

― Sherry Thomas , Not Quite a Husband (The Marsdens, #2)

14 " Amazing what a man thought of, looking at a fully clothed woman who did nothing more provocative than sipping her tea while gazing thoughtfully into the distance.
For the thousandth time he wished he’d just met her. That they were but two strangers traveling together, that such lovely, filthy thoughts did not break him in two, but were only a pleasant pastime as he slowly fell under the spell of her aloof beauty and her hidden intensity.
There were so many stories he could tell her, so many ways to draw her out of her shell. He would have waited with bated breath for her first smile, for the sound of her first laughter. He would be endlessly curious about her, eager to undress her metaphorically as well as physically.
The first holding of hands. The first kiss. The first time he saw her unclothed. The first time they
became one.
The first time they finished each other’s sentences.
But no, they’d met long ago, in the furthest years of his childhood. Their chances had come and gone. All they had ahead of them were a tedious road and a final good-bye. "

― Sherry Thomas , Not Quite a Husband (The Marsdens, #2)

15 " All your emotions were so intense—your anger like daggers, your unhappiness a poisoned well. Even your love had such sharp corners and dark alleys. "

― Sherry Thomas , Not Quite a Husband (The Marsdens, #2)

16 " You don’t know how to converse. Sometimes I think the spaces between the stars are filled with your silence. "

― Sherry Thomas , Not Quite a Husband (The Marsdens, #2)

17 " But sometimes the males of the species brought home shiny, beautiful things, with hope burning in their hearts. "

― Sherry Thomas , Not Quite a Husband (The Marsdens, #2)

18 " During terms, Professor Marsden lives in Cambridge with his wife, chess player
extraordinaire and distinguished physician and surgeon Bryony Asquith Marsden. His
favorite time of day is half past six in the evening, when he meets Mrs. Marsden’s train at the
station, as the latter returns from her day in London. On Sunday afternoons, rain or shine,
Professor and Mrs. Marsden take a walk along The Backs, and treasure growing old
together. "

― Sherry Thomas , Not Quite a Husband (The Marsdens, #2)

19 " He did not look like an archangel—if archangels looked as he did, there would be no women of virtue left in Paradise. "

― Sherry Thomas , Not Quite a Husband (The Marsdens, #2)

20 " Trust ran both ways. How could he ask her to trust him when he hardly trusted her?
He would trust her, in her love, in her strength, in her decency and fortitude.
And when the time came, he would find the strength in himself. "

― Sherry Thomas , Not Quite a Husband (The Marsdens, #2)