“Go ahead and live in that superficial gilded cage! Be the ambassador’s wife, and watch yourself perish miserably away and eventually, die heartless and loveless!”
― Kristina Stangl, The Ambassador’s Wife

“Although she deeply resented the gilded cage in which she resided in; she was also still, at the same time, fearful to leave it entirely all behind. For as much as she wished to live a new life, she was also equally terrified. Petrified of the unknown. What if the grass wasn’t greener on the other side? What then?”
― Kristina Stangl, The Ambassador’s Wife

“As he patiently observed her every move, from the flickering movement of her hair to the twinkle in her blue eyes, he privately thought to himself, that after years of waiting for a shooting star, he had finally stumbled upon a star of his very own in her; all the while, learning what his version of heaven looked like, here on earth.”
― Kristina Stangl, The Ambassador’s Wife