Top 7 Quotes by Brady Udall

When it comes to love, everyone is a liar.

When it comes to love, everyone is a liar.

Liars, Love Everyone

Brady Udall (2013). “The Lonely Polygamist”, p.457, Random House

Unlike Rosa, I can see no divine purpose behind the tangle of this existence, no ordering hand. It is all a mystery, or more accurately, a mess. There are no heroes or villains, no saviors or demons or angels. Only those who have died and those of us who, for whatever reason, have survived. None of this will keep me from believing in God. I believe in Him, I just don't know that I will ever have faith in Him.

Brady Udall

Hero, Believe, Angel

...Families are Forever, and wondered if the slogan was meant as a promise or a threat.

Brady Udall

Forever, Promise, Threat

Brady Udall (2013). “The Lonely Polygamist”, p.339, Random House

If I could tell you only one thing about my life, it would be this: When I was 7 years old, the mailman ran over my head.

Brady Udall

Years, Would Be, Seven

"The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint: A Novel". Book by Brady Udall, www.npr.org. 2001.

For most affairs, this eventually becomes the most fundamental of questions, the only one that matters: Do we love each other more than the lives we already have? It is the question that hovers in the background of every secret phone call, flavors every tryst with the head of possibilities of apocalypse and renewal; and it is the answer to that question, or the lack thereof, that so often dooms an affair to failure.

Brady Udall

Phones, Secret, Phone Calls

The life of a plural wife, she'd found, was a life lived under constant comparison, a life spent wondering. Sitting across from her sister-wives at Sunday dinner, the platters and serving dishes floating past like hovercraft, the questions were almost inescapable; Who of us is the most happy? Which of us is his one true love? Who does he desire the most?

Brady Udall

Sunday, Past, Wife

Brady Udall (2010). “The Lonely Polygamist: A Novel”, p.150, W. W. Norton & Company