“Her thoughts speed up and become less rational; her mind makes fantastic leaps. It's not that things don't make sense to her when she's like this — sometimes they make 'more' sense. They make sense the way dreams do. It's only when the dream is over that you see how odd it all was, how it actually didn't make sense at all.”
―
Shari Lapena,
The Couple Next Door
“The wife is always the last to know, right?” ― Shari Lapena, The Couple Next Door
“...nobody makes that much money without taking advantage of somebody. It's much easier to make money if you don't care who you hurt. If you have scruples, it's much harder to get rich.” ― Shari Lapena, The Couple Next Door
“Everyone is faking it, all of them pretending to be something they’re not. The whole world is built on lies and deceit.” ― Shari Lapena, The Couple Next Door
“She knows how judgemental mothers are, how good it feels to sit in judgement of someone else.” ― Shari Lapena, The Couple Next Door
“learned that people will believe what they want to believe. And it’s truly frightening how easily they’ll believe it.” ― Shari Lapena, An Unwanted Guest
“Routines give structure to empty days.” ― Shari Lapena, Someone We Know
“But all fairytales are tinged with darkness.” ― Shari Lapena, Not a Happy Family
“She knows she can’t survive this on her own.” ― Shari Lapena, The Couple Next Door
“One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.” ― Shari Lapena, An Unwanted Guest
“Earlier today Brigid visited her favorite shop, Knit One Purl Too. She was running out of the fabulous purple Shibui yarn she’d bought last time. The minute she walked in the door and saw all the colorful skeins of yarn bundled along the walls, almost up to the ceiling, she felt her spirits lift. So much color, so much texture—such unlimited possibilities!” ― Shari Lapena, A Stranger in the House
“when a wife goes missing, the husband is usually the prime suspect, and probably vice versa.” ― Shari Lapena, The Couple Next Door
“She makes things work the best she can, but it isn’t easy. Marco” ― Shari Lapena, The Couple Next Door
“Such kindness, and such thoughtless cruelty.” ― Shari Lapena, The Couple Next Door
“She knows that it’s not necessarily the ones who seem different that you need to be afraid of—it’s the ones who can carry off normal without anyone suspecting a thing.” ― Shari Lapena, Everyone Here is Lying
“I was crying when I fed her because I was sad about being fat and unattractive, and Cynthia—who is supposed to be a friend—had been flirting with my husband all evening.” ― Shari Lapena, The Couple Next Door
“Suspicion is an insidious thing; doubts have started creeping in, things that he’d previously been able to ignore.” ― Shari Lapena, A Stranger in the House
“They will be judged, by the police and by everybody else. Serves them right, leaving their baby alone. She would think that, too, if it had happened to someone else. She knows how judgmental mothers are, how good it feels to sit in judgment of someone else.” ― Shari Lapena, The Couple Next Door
“clumsy fingers, feeling faintly guilty about going through his wife’s purse. It feels private. But this is an emergency. He dumps the contents onto the middle of their neatly made bed. Her wallet is there, her change purse, lipstick, pen, a tissue packet—it’s all there. Not an errand then. Maybe she stepped out to help a friend? An emergency of some kind? Still, she would have taken her purse with her if she was driving the car. And wouldn’t she have called him by now if she could? She could borrow someone else’s phone. It’s not like her to be thoughtless. Tom sits on the edge of the bed, quietly unraveling. His heart is beating too fast. Something is wrong. He thinks that maybe he should call the police. He” ― Shari Lapena, The Couple Next Door
“The wife is always the last to know, right?” ― Shari Lapena, The Couple Next Door
“...nobody makes that much money without taking advantage of somebody. It's much easier to make money if you don't care who you hurt. If you have scruples, it's much harder to get rich.” ― Shari Lapena, The Couple Next Door
“Everyone is faking it, all of them pretending to be something they’re not. The whole world is built on lies and deceit.” ― Shari Lapena, The Couple Next Door
“She knows how judgemental mothers are, how good it feels to sit in judgement of someone else.” ― Shari Lapena, The Couple Next Door
“learned that people will believe what they want to believe. And it’s truly frightening how easily they’ll believe it.” ― Shari Lapena, An Unwanted Guest
“Routines give structure to empty days.” ― Shari Lapena, Someone We Know
“But all fairytales are tinged with darkness.” ― Shari Lapena, Not a Happy Family
“She knows she can’t survive this on her own.” ― Shari Lapena, The Couple Next Door
“One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.” ― Shari Lapena, An Unwanted Guest
“Earlier today Brigid visited her favorite shop, Knit One Purl Too. She was running out of the fabulous purple Shibui yarn she’d bought last time. The minute she walked in the door and saw all the colorful skeins of yarn bundled along the walls, almost up to the ceiling, she felt her spirits lift. So much color, so much texture—such unlimited possibilities!” ― Shari Lapena, A Stranger in the House
“when a wife goes missing, the husband is usually the prime suspect, and probably vice versa.” ― Shari Lapena, The Couple Next Door
“She makes things work the best she can, but it isn’t easy. Marco” ― Shari Lapena, The Couple Next Door
“Such kindness, and such thoughtless cruelty.” ― Shari Lapena, The Couple Next Door
“She knows that it’s not necessarily the ones who seem different that you need to be afraid of—it’s the ones who can carry off normal without anyone suspecting a thing.” ― Shari Lapena, Everyone Here is Lying
“I was crying when I fed her because I was sad about being fat and unattractive, and Cynthia—who is supposed to be a friend—had been flirting with my husband all evening.” ― Shari Lapena, The Couple Next Door
“Suspicion is an insidious thing; doubts have started creeping in, things that he’d previously been able to ignore.” ― Shari Lapena, A Stranger in the House
“They will be judged, by the police and by everybody else. Serves them right, leaving their baby alone. She would think that, too, if it had happened to someone else. She knows how judgmental mothers are, how good it feels to sit in judgment of someone else.” ― Shari Lapena, The Couple Next Door
“clumsy fingers, feeling faintly guilty about going through his wife’s purse. It feels private. But this is an emergency. He dumps the contents onto the middle of their neatly made bed. Her wallet is there, her change purse, lipstick, pen, a tissue packet—it’s all there. Not an errand then. Maybe she stepped out to help a friend? An emergency of some kind? Still, she would have taken her purse with her if she was driving the car. And wouldn’t she have called him by now if she could? She could borrow someone else’s phone. It’s not like her to be thoughtless. Tom sits on the edge of the bed, quietly unraveling. His heart is beating too fast. Something is wrong. He thinks that maybe he should call the police. He” ― Shari Lapena, The Couple Next Door
