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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo QUOTES

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo QUOTES

1 " You should know this about the rich: they always want to get richer. It is never boring, getting your hands on more money. "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

2 " Why have I spent so long settling for less when I know damn well the world expects more? "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

3 " When you dig just the tiniest bit beneath the surface, everyone's love life is original and interesting and nuanced and defies any easy definition. "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

4 " Sometimes divorce isn’t an earth-shattering loss. Sometimes it’s just two people waking up out of a fog. "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

5 " And here’s why it worked: man or woman, gay, straight, bisexual, you name it, we all just want to be teased. "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

6 " Heartbreak is a loss. Divorce is a piece of paper. "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

7 " What’s that saying? Behind every gorgeous woman, there’s a man sick of screwing her? Well, it works both ways. No one mentions that part. "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

8 " No one is just a victim or a victor. Everyone is somewhere in between. People who go around casting themselves as one or the other are not only kidding themselves, but they're also painfully unoriginal. "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

9 " Nobody deserves anything,” Evelyn says. “It's simply a matter of who's willing to go and take it for themselves. And you, Monique, are a person who has proven to be willing to go out there and take what you want. So be honest about that. No one is just a victim or a victor. Everyone is somewhere in between. People who go around casting themselves as one or the other are not only kidding themselves, but they're also painfully unoriginal. "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

10 " No one is just a victim or a victor. Everyone is somewhere in between. People who go around casting themselves as one or the other are not only kidding themselves, but they’re also painfully unoriginal. "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

11 " Praise is just like an addiction. The more you get it, the more of it you need just to stay even. "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

12 " But if you have to go, then go. Go if it hurts. Go if it's time. Just go knowing you were loved, that I will never forget you, that you will live in everything Connor and I do. Go knowing I love you purely, Harry, that you were an amazing father. Go knowing I told you all my secrets. Because you were my best friend. "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

13 " It cost so much, caring. I didn't have any currency to spend on it. "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

14 " I’m bisexual. Don’t ignore half of me so you can fit me in a box. "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

15 " I think being yourself—your true, entire self—is always going to feel like you’re swimming upstream.”

“Yeah,” she said. “But if the last few years with you have been any indication, I think it also feels like taking your bra off at the end of the day. "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

16 " The World doesn't give things. You take things. "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

17 " For the first time in a very long time, I felt like I had family. You do not know how fast you have been running, how hard you have been working, how truly exhausted you are, until someone stands behind you and says, “It’s OK, you can fall down now. I’ll catch you.” So I fell down. And Harry caught me. "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

18 " Would I have clung to his every word so tightly if his advice felt unlimited? "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

19 " Some days I find myself convinced that I admire her more than anyone I've ever met, and other days I think of her as a liar and a cheat.

I think Evelyn would be rather content with that, actually. "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

20 " Intimacy is about truth "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo