Kaira Rouda Quotes

Kaira Sturdivant Rouda

Kaira Rouda is an American author and businesswoman. She is best known for her psychological suspense novels. (Kaira Rouda Quotes)

“Anger can benefit relationships, even though society tells us anger is dangerous and we should hide it. Hidden anger in intimate relationships can be detrimental, that’s for sure. But it’s also true that all emotions have a purpose and evolve to keep us safe. Anger is instinctual. It fuels our primitive need to live and protect ourselves. Anger sharpens our focus, pushes us to fight back when attacked and act to defend ourselves.”
Kaira Rouda
The Next Wife

“Classic malignant narcissist, possible psychopathic. All the definitions really blend together, but it’s you. You have no conscience, have a psychological need for power and control and you think you are more important than anyone else.”
Kaira Rouda
Best Day Ever

“Digging around in other people’s business isn’t healthy. In fact, it can be dangerous.”
Kaira Rouda
The Next Wife

“Everything I’ve done, I’ve done for you.”
Kaira Rouda
The Next Wife

“Everything she liked that she thought she saw in me, I became. It’s who I am now, with her. It’s who we are together.”
Kaira Rouda
Best Day Ever

“He’s everything I dreamed about all those years ago. Everything I never had. Everything I always wanted. A loving man, a happy home, and a successful career: all the things girls in my hometown never thought they could have. I knew what I wanted. I found it. The perfect job. And then the perfect boss turned into my dream husband. I worked hard to get it. I am not going to let this all go.”
Kaira Rouda
The Next Wife

“Helped along by doing yoga together after a huge workout.”
Kaira Rouda
Here, Home, Hope

“Here’s the thing – the line between love and hate is so thin. So very precarious.”
Kaira Rouda
The Next Wife

“Honestly, the last thing that attracts men is a woman who seems smarter, savvier, and more powerful than they are in business. Trust me.”
Kaira Rouda
The Next Wife

“I am so sick and tired of people messing with me. Threatening me. Underestimating me. It’s exhausting sometimes, but it does make you stronger. And I am invincible.”
Kaira Rouda
The Next Wife

“I didn’t know how good change could feel. I just worried about the risks, not the rewards.”
Kaira Rouda
Here, Home, Hope

“I explained at the time. “There’s a difference between not expressing things and not feeling them. Remember me, Poker-face Paul? It’s a blessing and a curse. I’m a guy. It’s how we are, genetically. You know, hard on the outside, soft on the inside. The delay, honey, is all in your pretty little head.”
Kaira Rouda
Best Day Ever

“I felt something reconnecting between us. It’s like finding a favorite sweater that was at the bottom of your drawer, and you pull it on, and it feels just right. In fact, it felt great.”
Kaira Rouda
The Next Wife

“I guess that’s true of people in general. They only see what they want to see, even when the truth is right in front of them.”
Kaira Rouda
The Next Wife

“I like my men wealthy and broken in, and the kids, if they have to be around, happily away at college.”
Kaira Rouda
The Next Wife

“I marveled about our collective ability as women to keep all the pain hidden, just below the surface.”
Kaira Rouda
Here, Home, Hope

“I mean, men aren’t that original. They’re simple beings, easy to figure out. Keep them happy, well fed in all areas if you get my drift, and voilà – a happy life.”
Kaira Rouda
The Next Wife

“I protect her and the kids from any harm that could come their way. From grandparents and babysitters.”
Kaira Rouda
Best Day Ever

“I taught myself how to imitate the look people have when they are feeling sad, for example. The corners of the mouth droop, the eyes fill with water.”
Kaira Rouda
Best Day Ever

“I wonder if she is asking me for something, for some understanding. Some type of compassion or empathy. I’m not good at those emotions, or, if we’re being honest, any emotion except anger.” (Kaira Rouda Quotes)
Kaira Rouda
Best Day Ever

“I’m afraid of being poor again. I’m afraid of being discovered as a fraud. I’m afraid I’m not good enough, just like my momma always said.”
Kaira Rouda
The Next Wife

“I’d learned balance is internal; that there really wasn’t one set formula for how to live your life nor how to handle the wife-mother-businesswoman juggling act. Maybe it was just being tuned in to every role and knowing when one or the other needed to be the focus.”
Kaira Rouda
Here, Home, Hope

“Imagined how great it would feel to jump into the water to cool off. Sure, she could just go inside the main cabin and freeze in the air conditioning.”
Kaira Rouda
Her Forbidden Love

“Infatuation, unlike love, is impossible to sustain…”
Kaira Rouda
All the Difference

“It’s a day of new beginnings. The company is public. We’re rich, and we’re so in love. And no one is going to ruin this relationship. No one will come between us. I’m going to get to the bottom of everything. I’m a problem solver.”
Kaira Rouda
The Next Wife

“It’s crazy to think that tragedy gets more attention than good news. I mean, not one of my friends texted about the IPO. But I guess that’s true of people in general. They only see what they want to see, even when the truth is right in front of them.”
Kaira Rouda
The Next Wife

“It’s good to keep your enemies off balance. It’s true in business – and in life, I’m learning.”
Kaira Rouda
The Next Wife

“It’s really a blessing, to let go of grudges, to forgive, and to move on. To allow yourself to get rid of what they called emotional hoarding.”
Kaira Rouda
Here, Home, Hope

“It’s really a whole new feeling when you realize you’re in charge of your life, your thoughts, and your actions—or inaction.”
Kaira Rouda
Here, Home, Hope

“It’s silly, but every once in a while, it feels good to be a step ahead of your enemy.”
Kaira Rouda
The Next Wife

“Kate and I had gotten into a rut, a pattern where neither of us had the energy to do anything but work and try to manage Ashlyn. We were just barely keeping it together. There was no fun, no laughter. Every day was heavy.”
Kaira Rouda
The Next Wife

“Life-change list Number Five: Don’t forget the care and feeding of friends.”
Kaira Rouda
Here, Home, Hope

“Look, men can only be dislodged from unhappy relationships. Period. If they’re happy with the first, there will be no second, I’m telling you.”
Kaira Rouda
The Next Wife

“My life is up to me to define. I needed to make my own dreams come true.”
Kaira Rouda
Here, Home, Hope

“My therapist said rage is a dangerous form of anger: violent and uncontrollable. Maybe so, but I will put it to good use.”
Kaira Rouda
The Next Wife

“News travels fast. Bad news, faster. Tragic news, the fastest.”
Kaira Rouda
The Next Wife

“She stays at home and cares for the house and for the children. Optimally, she learns to cook, but at the very least, she sets a nice table. This is what we talked about, what we agreed to, even on our very first date.”
Kaira Rouda
Best Day Ever

“Some of us know how to keep our men, and some, well, they just don’t.”
Kaira Rouda
The Next Wife

“Teenage daughters, something I’m quite familiar with personally as I recently was one, can be big trouble, a lurking villain in a superhero household.”
Kaira Rouda
The Next Wife

“That’s really what it comes down to, in the end. Making choices. You can’t predict life, but you can do your darndest to make it the best it can be.”
Kaira Rouda
All the Difference

“There were even sand sharks, she’d read, so maybe she’d swim close to shore. But after living in Ohio”
Kaira Rouda
Her Forbidden Love

“These first wives do struggle. They have to give birth to the baby, or babies, and then devote themselves to the kids for the rest of their lives. That’s the biggest thing. Us next wives waltz in after all the potty training, the shots, the school selection, the homework.”
Kaira Rouda
The Next Wife

“Tish and I aren’t having outward obvious fights, no name-calling; no plate throwing is going on. That’s not my style, though if you asked me right now, I would tell you it’s hers. I can feel her rage building like a summer storm. I haven’t really paid much attention to us, to her, not with everything else that’s going on. But I feel it between us now like a live grenade. I don’t know what will happen if one of us pulls the pin.”
Kaira Rouda
The Next Wife

“Tish was like running away to a private Caribbean island in the midst of stress and grown-up problems. A temptation I was too weak to ignore.”
Kaira Rouda
The Next Wife

“To a certain extent, you can make choices, but so can everyone else around you. It’s where those choices collide that things happen.”
Kaira Rouda
All the Difference