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“Words don’t have the power to hurt you, unless that person meant more to you than you are willing to confess.”
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“The number of chances you give someone doesn't tell the world how loving you are without telling them how desperate you are to believe they care as much as you. True love resides in the first chance, stupidity in the second, opportunists in the third and scoundrels in the fourth.”
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“The moment you have to recruit people to put another person down, in order to convince someone of your value is the day you dishonor your children, your parents and your God. If someone doesn't see your worth the problem is them, not people outside your relationship.”
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“It's weird, marriage. It's like this license that gives a person the legal right to control their spouse / their 'other half.”
― Blind Leading Another
― Blind Leading Another
“The whole world seems tilted, my inner ear displaced by a hole where my spouse used to be.”
― Split: A Memoir of Divorce
― Split: A Memoir of Divorce
“If there's a sexier sound on this planet than the person you're in love with cooing over the crepes you made for him, I don't know what it is.”
― Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen
― Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen
“There is a husband who requires mileage receipts, another who wants sex at three a.m. One who forbids short haircuts, another who refuses to feed the pets. I would never put up with that, all the other wives think. Never.
But my agent has a theory. She says every marriage is jerry-rigged. Even the ones that look reasonable from the outside are held together with chewing gum and wire and string.”
― Dept. of Speculation
But my agent has a theory. She says every marriage is jerry-rigged. Even the ones that look reasonable from the outside are held together with chewing gum and wire and string.”
― Dept. of Speculation
“His love for me seemed to overflow my limits by its flood of wealth and service. But my necessity was more for giving than foe receiving; for love is a vagabond, who can make his flowers bloom in the wayside dust, better than in the crystal jars kept in the drawing-room.”
― The Home and the World
― The Home and the World
“Simply put, she was the one who had to put up with me. That she did so with love and patience and encouragement instead of strangling me, throwing my remains into a wood chipper, and then pretending she had never been married to me at all is a testament to the fact that she is, in fact, the single best person I know.”
― Lock In
― Lock In
“We treat our stone wives with much more care than they treat their warm ones, anyway. I personally dust mine once a week, and I know Khaamil gives them presents when I am not looking. These are yours - they are in your care, and you must be faithful.”
― In the Cities of Coin and Spice
― In the Cities of Coin and Spice
“Feel sorry for yourself.
Sure, your tiny steel-ribbed mother told you never to do that,
But who the hell is going to do it for you?
"Piangi, piangi," the old man in the opera tells Violetta.
"Cry, honey, cry." Do it right.
Do it yourself.”
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Sure, your tiny steel-ribbed mother told you never to do that,
But who the hell is going to do it for you?
"Piangi, piangi," the old man in the opera tells Violetta.
"Cry, honey, cry." Do it right.
Do it yourself.”
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“Causing active ongoing pleasure in your mate is something people tend to restrict to the sexual realm or getting attractive food on the table on time, but keeping permanent intimate comedy going is more important than any other one thing.”
― Mating
― Mating
“Look, it's like falling out of a twenty-story building.
All your good friends,
they try to puff themselves up for you as soft as possible,
But they're still only couch pillows.
They may save your life when you hit them,
But you're still gonna break every bone in your body.”
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All your good friends,
they try to puff themselves up for you as soft as possible,
But they're still only couch pillows.
They may save your life when you hit them,
But you're still gonna break every bone in your body.”
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“I have yet to meet one widow who hasn't changed in monumental ways as she has coped with her loss. Most of us have gotten to the point where we are not the "pleasers" we once were. We say what we think, we realize that life is precious, and we don't have time to be anything less than who we really are.”
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“In the patriarchal societies of ancient Israel, it was considered rewarding and traditional to have multiple wives, just as it was considered rewarding to have honor and wealth, so God, in 2 Samuel 12:7-8, was possibly giving the wives as a reward to David, but not necessarily as a way to permit polygamy. Knowing that God does not change his mind or his original intentions for society [ see Numbers 23:19], we know that God’s emphasis on the oneness of two spouses in Genesis 2:24 was not to be changed, so, even with the way God rewarded David, it does not indicate that God actually approved of David’s polygamy.”
― Feminism and Biblical Hermeneutics
― Feminism and Biblical Hermeneutics
“Interregnum of old life and new.
Angry with you
for this dislocation.
I loved you in my other life.”
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Angry with you
for this dislocation.
I loved you in my other life.”
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“How much she's learned through love
about everything, including that quadrant of self
visible only to others but exceptionally
accessed through the one who knows her best.”
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about everything, including that quadrant of self
visible only to others but exceptionally
accessed through the one who knows her best.”
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“Each day for me is filled with things that I used to look forward to in the morning. Now they feel empty and stressful. Handling my life by myself is sad for me. I liked being part of a team. I liked having someone else to share my day with every night.”
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“Some things you have to do for yourself if you want them done right.
Ironing your favorite dress with the tricky collar,
Making hot chocolate the way you like it.
Feeling sorry for you.
Nobody else can do it properly.”
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Ironing your favorite dress with the tricky collar,
Making hot chocolate the way you like it.
Feeling sorry for you.
Nobody else can do it properly.”
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“You think you've stopped crying
And then the blues come back,
You wonder what brought them:
The red pen?
The wind in the yard?
The plaid shirt in the bank?
Your buried grief seeps to the surface,
Like oil under tar sands.
Let it go. It's the rich black residue of the past,
Dead life becomes this stuff that sticks to the soles of your feet,
Welling up when it damned well pleases.
Let it go.”
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And then the blues come back,
You wonder what brought them:
The red pen?
The wind in the yard?
The plaid shirt in the bank?
Your buried grief seeps to the surface,
Like oil under tar sands.
Let it go. It's the rich black residue of the past,
Dead life becomes this stuff that sticks to the soles of your feet,
Welling up when it damned well pleases.
Let it go.”
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“If dat wuz mah wife," said Walter Thomas, "Ah'd kill her cemetery dead.”
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
“Jane has been dead for more than two decades. Earlier this year I grieved for her in a way I had never grieved before. At eighty-six, I was sick and thought I was dying. Twenty and twenty-one years ago, every day of her dying for eighteen months, I stayed by her side. It was miserable that Jane should die so young, and it was redemptive that I could be with her every hour of every day. Last February I grieved again, this time that she would not sit over me as I died.”
― A Carnival Of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety
― A Carnival Of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety
“I built up a portrait of the husband as a good guy, a humble guy. A guy who was a little boring. Who people liked because he was a little boring. There are worse things than being a little boring. Although not many.”
― Hummingbird Salamander
― Hummingbird Salamander
“The titles husband and wife must take priority over the titles dad and mom.”
― Marriage Be Hard: 12 Conversations to Keep You Laughing, Loving, and Learning with Your Partner
― Marriage Be Hard: 12 Conversations to Keep You Laughing, Loving, and Learning with Your Partner
“Frances, sitting with hands folded and face blank, recollecting not in tranquility but in ripe howling grief her husband Steven dead now eight months two weeks one day.”
― Perfect Happiness
― Perfect Happiness
“Don't put your hopes for happiness solely on your spouse, for even the best intentions can lead to a living hell. Good partners are like rare gems - hard to find and requiring a magnifying glass to discover. Instead, cultivate a deep connection with God and find your joy in the love and grace that flows from above. This way, you'll be less likely to be disappointed and more likely to find true fulfillment.”
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