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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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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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“My husband is nervous about a lot of things down here, like the monstrous size of the fire ants and the quality of the gasoline, because half the time the gas stations are out, the nozzles bundled up in black garbage bags, or the credit card readers don't work or the attendant is a shirtless man with a hip flask tucked into the waistband of his shorts. I keep trying to explain that this is a place with its own laws.”
― State of Paradise
― State of Paradise
“My husband says he feels like he's an extra in Jurassic Park except someone has turned all the dinosaurs miniature. In Florida, nature is seductive and full of vengeance. To live here is to engage in a ceaseless battle to keep the outdoors from coming in, but in this instance there is absolutely nothing to do but admit defeat: there are hundreds of thousands of lizards out there, with bodies malleable enough to slip through the smallest crack. This is why it's important to know how to catch lizards in mason jars, so we can help them rejoin the countless hordes outside. My mother's backyard is so full of lizards that the grass undulates of its own accord.”
― State of Paradise
― State of Paradise
“Buth marriages were mysterious and private things, even to the people in the marriages themselves. One spouse's perception of how the relationship was fairing could be drastically different from the other spouse's. In marriage, you were ultimately alone together.”
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“But marriages were mysterious and private things, even to the people in the marriages themselves. One spouse's perception of how the relationship was fairing could be drastically different from the other spouse's. In marriage, you were ultimately alone together”
― Dele Weds Destiny
― Dele Weds Destiny
“My ex-husband, who works for an oil company and lives in Patagonia, tells me that the neighbors are just afraid. I tell him that fascism generally starts with fear and then turns into hatred.”
― A Sunny Place for Shady People
― A Sunny Place for Shady People
“My good, beloved wife, née Amy Lou Little, came to me from the girl pool. And there's an enchanting thought for lonely men--a pool of girls, teeming, warm, and deep.”
― While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction
― While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction
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