The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: A Novel

Being wanted meant having to satisfy. At least, that was my view of it back then.

“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.

You wonder what it must be like to be a man, to be so confident that the final say is yours.

you can’t tell a single thing about a person’s true character if you both want the same thing.

But I was tiring of him. 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.

That’s like a dog and a cat getting along because they both want to kill the mouse.”

It was then that I knew that the only time anyone would know anything true about my life was when I told them directly. In a book.

“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.”

Intimacy is impossible without trust.