Top 140 Susan Mallery Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Making a family work was about love and trust and knowing where to draw the lines.”

— Susan Mallery

102. “Life is short. You have to do what you can while you have the chance.”

— Susan Mallery

103. “I’m mostly faking it, but I’m moving forward. That’s what we’re supposed to do, right? Nothing stays the same.”

— Susan Mallery

104. “Nicole wanted to slap herself. She was supposed to be helping her friend, not making things worse. “I’m sorry,” she murmured. “I’m not helping.”

— Susan Mallery

105. “How can you have a book for a friend?” Abby asked. “You can’t talk to them.” “No, but they can take you away to another place. With books, the world feels safe.”

— Susan Mallery

106. “There’s magic in loving someone. It’s like a part of the universe changes every time we open our heart.”

— Susan Mallery

107. “She ignored the fact that he would also want her to keep moving forward, to have a life, to be happy. All impossible concepts.”

— Susan Mallery

108. “Because that was the whole point of every person’s journey. To be alive. To live and to keep moving forward.”

— Susan Mallery

109. “American flag appeared on the screen. “Between 2001 and 2012, nearly sixty-five hundred American soldiers were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. During that same period of time – ” the screen shifted to the face of a battered woman clutching two small children “ – almost twelve thousand women were murdered by their husbands, boyfriends or a former partner. Even now, three women are murdered every single day by the man who claims to love them.”

— Susan Mallery

110. “Glasses hid his eyes, which were his best feature. Her ex-husband was pale, slightly flabby, at least he had been the last time she’d seen him naked, and had the beginnings of a bald spot on the top of his head. His chest was furry to the point of making her wonder if his family tree held the evolutionary missing link.”

— Susan Mallery

111. “That I’d get over being publicly humiliated? That your running away wouldn’t be the topic of conversation around town for months?” She lowered her head. She’d pulled her long.”

— Susan Mallery

112. “His mouth seemed designed for kissing. Maybe it was all that non-conversation. Maybe talking too much undermined a man’s ability to kiss.”

— Susan Mallery

113. “I’m not sure I’m the marrying kind. I don’t even know if I want kids. I’m still at the keeping-a-plant alive stage of my life. Next, I’ll consider getting a pet.”

— Susan Mallery

114. “If I start, I’m not going to stop,” he said flatly.”

— Susan Mallery

115. “I thought I loved him, nut know I am questioning that. Love is supposed to be a positive thing. With him, my world got smaller, not bigger. I made so many bad choices.”

— Susan Mallery

116. “Unfortunately, you’re going to have to face the consequences of what happened. Your friends got you into trouble, and you’re going to have to pay the price for that. You knew it was wrong to take the clothes, but you did it, anyway.” She.”

— Susan Mallery

117. “Not at the same time.” He leaned toward her and lowered his voice. “I’ve never been into the group thing. After the first five or six times, it’s not all that fun.” “You’re not impressing me with stories like that.” “What.”

— Susan Mallery

118. “She’d often thought that was what a good marriage would mean. Sometimes she would take on all the burdens, and sometimes her husband would. Most of the time they would share them.”

— Susan Mallery

119. “I’m going to kill him. I’m a lawyer. I can keep myself out of jail.”

— Susan Mallery

120. “Hi,” she managed to answer, then told herself she had to let go of the door handle. At some point he would be expecting her to walk into the restaurant with him and wouldn’t that be awkward with her dragging a car behind? Jairus.”

— Susan Mallery

121. “You’re not someone I could forget,” he murmured.”

— Susan Mallery

122. “Oh, God, oh, God, oh, God. Not Riley. Anything but that. After all this time, couldn’t her reputation as a young, crazed teenaged stalker be put to rest?”

— Susan Mallery

123. “She still wanted to slap something. Or throw something. The fish offered a tempting target but, before she could figure out who would fly across the room best, she heard the front door open and a man speaking to Tina.”

— Susan Mallery

124. “But, as her mother had often told her, life wasn’t meant to be easy. It was meant to be lived.”

— Susan Mallery

125. “Darlin’, if we only married who we deserved, then the world would be filled with single women,” an older woman said.”

— Susan Mallery

126. “She’d been so hopeful that people would forget her.”

— Susan Mallery

127. “Wilma’s favorite is the time you nailed his girlfriend’s doors and windows shut so she couldn’t get out for their date. That’s a good one, but my favorite is the time you laid down right in front of his car right there.”

— Susan Mallery

128. “How do any of us get out of this life alive?”

— Susan Mallery

129. “I’m not attracted to you.” He winked. “It’s okay. You can tell me. I’ll keep your secret. You want me.” “Only.”

— Susan Mallery

130. “She decided she would find out all she could about Bettina then kill off a character just like her in her next book. The death would be grisly, she promised herself. Slow and painful.”

— Susan Mallery

131. “The first was that he drew her earlobe into his mouth and sucked. It didn’t sound like much. Had someone described the event to her she would have been mildly impressed, but not overly so. However, having it actually happen was very different.”

— Susan Mallery

132. “On her worst days, she feared she was actually less. And that truth had defined the rest of her life.”

— Susan Mallery

133. “She breathed, she walked through her house and knew that nothing was ever going to be the same again.”

— Susan Mallery

134. “I belong where you belong.”

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135. “Bailey Voss smiled at her daughter. Being.”

— Susan Mallery

136. “Phoebe fastened her seat belt, then gave him a quick glance. Her heart did a one and a half somersault with a half twist at the sight of his profile. He looked good enough to be on a coin.”

— Susan Mallery

137. “The women had one of their get-togethers last night. From what I heard, it was lots of margaritas and ice cream and calling you a bastard. They’re all hungover this morning, so.”

— Susan Mallery

138. “Forgiveness is a gift given by those with a full heart.”

— Susan Mallery

139. “Instead she was struck by the thought that she’d never felt worthy. That was the reason she was always rescuing the world. She was trying to earn her way into heaven. Barring that, she was trying to earn her way into happiness.”

— Susan Mallery

140. “Felicia Boylan. I run the festivals here in town.” The woman paused. “Interesting that we’re all natural redheads. Only about two percent of the population has red hair. The gene itself is recessive. I believe the color is caused by a mutation of the MC1R. That’s a gene that –.”

— Susan Mallery

141. “She looked around and saw thousands of books in rows of shelves. There were posters on the wall and signs pointing to various sections. It was, well, a library. But when she turned to Jasper, she realized he saw something completely different. His gaze was slightly unfocused as if instead of books, he saw journeys and possibilities.”

— Susan Mallery

142. “She felt too much and didn’t know where to put it.”

— Susan Mallery

143. “How was she supposed to find a man and fall in love when she couldn’t even get asked out on a date?”

— Susan Mallery

144. “Simon. She might not know many things, but.”

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145. “When we don’t like something in someone else, a lot of the time it’s because we don’t like it in ourselves.”

— Susan Mallery

146. “Did you bring your camera?” Gracie grabbed her trusty Polaroid from under her arm and held it out. Light from the streetlamp glinted off the narrow lens.”

— Susan Mallery

147. “It’s not the idea that changes the world, it’s the execution.”

— Susan Mallery

148. “The person you love is supposed to be the one place where you can relax. Where you can completely be yourself without being judged or pressured. Loving someone, committing to someone, means giving them a break, taking care of them more than they take care of you because if both people are doing that, then it’s marriage at its best.”

— Susan Mallery