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“And it will be the tragedy of my life that I cannot love you enough to make you mine. That you cannot be loved enough to be anyone’s.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“And taking pride in your beauty is a damning act. Because you allow yourself to believe that the only thing notable about yourself is something with a very short shelf life.” (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo Quotes)
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“Be wary of men with something to prove.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“Being wanted meant having to satisfy.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“But accepting that something is true isn’t the same as thinking that it is just.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“But almost everyone who’s actually experienced something like that will tell you that panic is a luxury you cannot afford. In the moment, you act without thinking, doing all you can with the information you have”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“But no medium can capture what it is to be in someone’s presence, certainly not someone like her. Someone who makes you feel important simply because she’s choosing to look at you”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“But of course, they got it wrong. They never did care about getting it right. The media are going to tell whatever story they want to tell. They always have. They always will.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“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
“Celia may have left me in a huff, but it was a death by a thousand cuts. I hurt her with these tiny scratches, day after day. And then I got surprised when it left a wound too big to heal.” (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo Quotes)
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“Charisma is “charm that inspires devotion.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“Do yourself a favor and learn how to grab life by the balls, dear. Don’t be so tied up trying to do the right thing when the smart thing is so painfully clear.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“Don’t ignore half of me so you can fit me into a box. Don’t do that.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“Evelyn looks at me with purpose. “Do you understand what I’m telling you? When you’re given an opportunity to change your life, be ready to do whatever it takes to make it happen. The world doesn’t give things, you take things. If you learn one thing from me, it should probably be that.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“Evelyn, who was the love of your life? You can tell me.” Evelyn looks out the window, breaths in deeply, and then says, “Celia. St. James”.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“Evelyn, who was your great love? You can tell me.”Evelyn looks out the window, breathes in deeply, and then says, “Celia St. James.”The room is quiet as Evelyn lets herself hear her own words. And then she smiles, a bright, wide, deeply sincere smile. She starts laughing to herself and then refocuses on me. “I feel like I spent my entire life loving her.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“First, you have to push people’s boundaries and not feel bad about it. No one is going to give you anything if you don’t ask for it. You tried. You were told no. Get over it.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“Guilt is a feeling I’ve never made much peace with. I find that when it rears its head, it brings an army. When I feel guilty for one thing, I start to see all the other things I should feel guilty for.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“Heartbreak is a loss. Divorce is a piece of paper. But I wasn’t heartbroken when Don left me. I simply felt like my marriage had failed. And those are very different things”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“How someone can love you in a way that is beautifully selfless while serving themselves ruthlessly.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“I can survive it. I’d rather survive it than never feel it.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“I can’t rest until I’m done. I have to push her. I have to ask and be willing to be told no. I have to know my worth.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“I can’t speak for all people who have been hit by someone they love, but what I can tell you is that forgiveness is different from absolution.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“I don’t want to let you love me if you don’t think you can lose me again. One last time.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“I had learned all too well that pain was sometimes stronger than the need to keep up appearances.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“I loved you so much that I thought you were the meaning of my life….I thought that people were put on earth to find other people, and I was put here to find you. To find you and touch your skin and smell your breath and hear all your thoughts. But I don’t want to be meant for someone like you.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“I made it fifty-fifty. Which is about the cruelest thing you can do to someone you love, give them just enough good to make them stick through a hell of a lot of bad”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“I miss my dad. I miss him all the time. But it’s moments like this, when I’m on the precipice of finally doing work that might just expand my heart, that I wish I could at least send him a letter, telling him what I’m doing. And I wish that he could send me one back.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“I simply didn’t care. It cost so much, caring. I didn’t have any currency to spend on it.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“I spent half my time loving her and the other half hiding how much I loved her.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“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.” (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo Quotes)
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“I think the difference between an actress and a star is that the star feels comfortable being the very thing the world wants her to be.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“I was fishing for information that might break my heart. A flaw of the human condition.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“I was gorgeous, even at fourteen. Oh, I know the whole world prefers a woman who doesn’t know her power, but I’m sick of all that. I turned heads.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“I’d told him I was someone else, and then I started getting angry that he couldn’t see who I really was.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“I’m cynical and I’m bossy, and most people would consider me vaguely immoral.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“I’m not suggesting that charming girls should take pity on the pretty ones. I’m just saying it’s not so great being loved for something you didn’t do.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“I’m simply saying they were all too happy to believe the lie I was selling them. And of course, that’s the easiest lie to tell, one you know the other person desperately wants to be true.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“I’m under absolutely no obligation to make sense to you.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“I’ve never thought of myself as a force to be reckoned with. Maybe I should start thinking of myself that way; maybe I deserve to.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“If I want things to change, I have to change how I do things. And probably drastically.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“If you are heartbroken right now, then I feel for you deeply, Evelyn says. That I have the utmost respect for. Thats the sort of thing that can split a person in two. But I wasnt heartbroken when Don left me. I simply felt like my marriage had failed. And those are very different things.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“If you are intolerable, let me be the one to tolerate you,” I said, and then I kissed her and tasted the lemon juice on her lips.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“If you’ve never been smacked across the face, let me tell you something, it is humiliating. Mostly because your eyes start to tear up, whether you mean to be crying or not. The shock of it and the sheer force of it stimulate your tear ducts. There is no way to take a smack across the face and look stoic. All you can do is remain still and stare straight ahead, allowing your face to turn red and your eyes to bloom. ”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“Isn’t it awfully convenient,” Harry added, “that when men make the rules, the one thing that’s looked down on the most is the one thing that would bear them the greatest threat? Imagine if every single woman on the planet wanted something in exchange when she gave up her body. You’d all be ruling the place. An armed populace. Only men like me would stand a chance against you. And that’s the last thing those assholes want, a world run by people like you and me.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“Isn’t that the very definition of power? Watching people kill themselves over something that means nothing to you?”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“It just goes to show that if you tell a woman her only skill is to be desirable, she will believe you.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“It strikes me as a unique form of power to say your own name when you know that everyone in the room, everyone in the world, already knows it.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“It was around that time that I started to believe that friendships could be written in the stars. “If there are all different types of soul mates,” I told Harry one afternoon, when the two of us were sitting out on the patio with Connor, “then you are one of mine.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“It’s a hard business, reconciling what the truth used to be with what the truth is now.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“It’s always been fascinating to me how things can be simultaneously true and false, how people can be good and bad all in one, how someone can love you in a way that is beautifully selfless while serving themselves ruthlessly.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“It’s on the house,” he said, which I thought was the dumbest thing, because if there is anyone that should be getting free food, it isn’t rich people.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“Make them pay you what they would pay a white man.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“Me, I’ve always gone after what I wanted with everything in me. Others fall into happiness. Sometimes I wish I was like them. I’m sure sometimes they wish they were like me.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“My heart was never in the craft of acting, only in the proving. Proving my power, proving my worth, proving my talent.” (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo Quotes)
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“My mother raised me to be polite, to be demure. I have long operated under the idea that civility is subservience. But it hasn’t gotten me very far, that type of kindness. The world respects people who think they should be running it.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“Never let anyone make you feel ordinary.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“No… because they are just husbands. I am Evelyn Hugo. And anyways, I think once people know the truth, they will be much more interested in my wife.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“No one goes around throwing caution to the wind unless the wind is blowing their way.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“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
“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
“Not to be indelicate, but are you telling me you’re dying?” “Everyone’s dying, sweetheart. You’re dying, I’m dying, that guy is dying.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“Oh I know the whole world prefers a woman who doesn’t know her power, but I’m sick of all that.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“Of course, that’s the easiest lie to tell, one you know the other person desperately wants to be true.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“People are messy, and love can be ugly. I’m inclined to always err on the side of compassion.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“People don’t find it very sympathetic or endearing, a woman who puts herself first. Nor do people respect a man who can’t keep his wife in line.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is ‘you’re safe with me’- that’s intimacy.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“Pictures speak very loudly. In general, we can almost never shake what we see with our eyes.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“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
“Please never forget that the sun rises and sets with your smile. At least to me it does. You’re the only thing on this planet worth worshipping.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“Relationships are complex. People are messy, and love can be ugly. I’m inclined to always err on the side of compassion.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“Say to them, “Evelyn Hugo just wants to go home. It’s time for her to go to her daughter, and her lover, and her best friend, and her mother.” Tell them Evelyn Hugo says good-bye.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“Sex is just an act. Sexuality is a sincere expression of desire and pleasure.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“She always made sure the bad was outweighed by so much good. I…well, I didn’t do that for her. I made it fifty-fifty. Which is about the cruelest thing you can do to someone you love, give them just enough good to make them stick through a hell of a lot of bad.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“Some marriages aren’t really that great. Some loves aren’t all-encompassing. Sometimes you separate because you weren’t that good together to begin with. 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
“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
“Sometimes reality comes crashing down on you. Other times reality simply waits, patiently, for you to run out of the energy it takes to deny it.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“Taking pride in your beauty is a damning act. Because you allow yourself to believe that the only thing notable about yourself is something with a very short shelf life.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“That’s the part I was stuck in, the part where you accept the apology because it’s easier than addressing the root of the problem”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“The daily peace of loving plainly.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“The devastating luxury of panic overtook me. And it has never left.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“The truth is, 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
“The world respects people who think they should be running it.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“There is a certain freedom in marrying a man when you aren’t hiding anything.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“Two men sleeping together. Married to two women sleeping together. We were four beards.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“We all can’t go around treating people like dog shit and then expecting that a simple I’m sorry erases it.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“We’re home,’ I said. This wasn’t my home. We’d never lived here together before. But she knew what I meant. ‘Yes,’ she said. ‘We’re home.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“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
“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
“When you’re given an opportunity to change your life, be ready to do whatever it takes to make it happen. The world doesn’t give things, you take things. If you learn one thing from me, it should probably be that.” (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo Quotes)
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“When you’ve been bested, sometimes it’s good to recognize it and move on.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“Which is about the cruelest thing you can do to someone you love, give them just enough good to make them stick through a hell of a lot of bad.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“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
“Why should my low tolerance be your problem?” “I want everything about you to be my problem,” I said.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“You can be sorry about something and not regret it,” Evelyn says.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“You can’t tell a single thing about a person’s true character if you both want the same thing. That’s like a dog and a cat getting along because they both want to kill the mouse.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“You destroyed me,” she said. “Twice now in our lives. I have spent years getting over you.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“You do not know how fast you have been running, how hard you have been working, how truly exhausted you are, until somewhat stands behind you and says, “It’s OK, you can fall down now. I’ll catch you.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“You don’t have to make yourself OK for a good mother; a good mother makes herself OK for you.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“You have to find a job that makes your heart feel big instead of one that makes it feel small.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“You have to push people’s boundaries and not feel bad about it. No one is going to give you anything if you don’t ask for it.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“You know damn well what you are. How you affect the people around you. I’d kill for a chest like that and full lips like yours. You make people think of undressing you just by showing up in a room fully clothed.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“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
“You take umbrage with the word sin because it implies that you feel sorry”
“You wonder what it must be like to be a man, to be so confident that the final say is yours.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“You, of all people, should know that you can’t tell a single thing about a person’s true character if you both want the same thing. That’s like a dog and a cat getting along because they both want to kill the mouse.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“You’re not really famous if anybody still likes you.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
