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“Your relationship or marriage is dead or dying, if you almost always have to remind your partner to miss you (and/or they almost always have to remind you to miss them).”
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“Maybe she’s meant to be alone. Unmarried. Deliciously free of people’s expectations. It sort of sounds like heaven, actually.”
― What's Become of Her
― What's Become of Her
“Many a woman would not be in a relationship with or married to her man, if he earned half of what he earns; and many a man would not be in a relationship with or married to his woman, if he earned twice as much as he earns.”
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“Well, there is no sin in being gay. The immorality comes from engaging in forbidden behavior. Therefore, the Christian homosexual is in the same situation as the unmarried heterosexual. He (or she) is expected to control his or her lusts and live a holy life. I know this is a tough position to take, and some will argue with it. But I stand on the authority of Scripture, and I have no license to edit it.”
― Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future
― Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future
“Marriage did not just cage millions of people. It has also freed them from their obsession to be seen as worthy of being with by their partners.”
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“History held plenty more examples of the unmarried being happy. Who said a man or a woman had to be a husband or a wife? Maybe they could simply be, unto themselves.”
― Marilla of Green Gables
― Marilla of Green Gables
“Rottcodd was unmarried. An aloofness and even a nervousness was apparent on first acquaintance and the ladies held a peculiar horror for him.”
― The Gormenghast Novels
― The Gormenghast Novels
“If we look at some of the most celebrated or prolific story originators of all time, we find among them a surprising number of eccentric bachelors and unmarried women. People who travelled widely, made strange friends and lived unusual and transient lifestyles.”
― Queer as Folklore: The Hidden Queer History of Myths and Monsters
― Queer as Folklore: The Hidden Queer History of Myths and Monsters
“I’m tired. The conductor has given me a pass. Maybe she saw into me,
that I’m headed to a hotel room alone, to a wedding alone,
that I stop myself from speaking more often than not. It’s hard to say
that I used to love someone, that now I might love someone else,
because I’m a coward.”
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that I’m headed to a hotel room alone, to a wedding alone,
that I stop myself from speaking more often than not. It’s hard to say
that I used to love someone, that now I might love someone else,
because I’m a coward.”
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“By writing down all the things you’re grateful for, you will feel more positive, stop negative thought patterns and transform your life.”
― Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up
― Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up
“But somewhere, deep inside this wounded soul of mine, it also ignited a little flicker of hope that maybe, just maybe, it wasn’t over for me yet.”
― Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up
― Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up
“Honestly, no wonder men and women have difficulty communicating. Just because a woman says something, it doesn’t mean she actually means it. If that were the case, when a man asks a woman what’s wrong and she says ‘nothing’, she would actually mean nothing, and not, in fact, that she is furious with him for a variety of reasons.”
― Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up
― Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up
“Differences can make or break a marriage. Often the differences you love in the beginning can be the reasons you want to murder them five years later.”
― Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up
― Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up
“I’m grateful for: Being child-free, so I can spend tomorrow busy sleeping until noon.”
― Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up
― Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up
“The Fear paralyses you. It grips you by the throat so you can’t breathe and makes your heart thump loud and fast in your ears. It makes you feel like you’re going to die and part of you wants to. That’s why it’s so horrible. Because after it’s finished beating you up, you beat yourself up even more. It’s your dirty little secret and I’ve kept mine for years.”
― Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up
― Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up
“Sometimes there are advantages to an eight-hour time difference.”
― Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up
― Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up
“Why is it you always bump into someone when you look terrible and never when you’ve had a blow-dry? It’s like some horrible cosmic law.”
― Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up
― Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up
“So what if there are no sparks or butterflies? Sparks and butterflies break your heart and drive you to the edge of insanity. They give you adrenaline-fuelled highs and desperate-on-the-kitchen-floor lows. I’ve never done heroin but often think it must be like that kind of love. It’s an addiction. A craving followed by a fix.”
― Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up
― Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up
“I’m grateful for: My brave and foolish heart, for refusing to settle for anything less.”
― Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up
― Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up
“The thing is, I know it works for thousands of happy couples, but I’m just not cut out for it.. So I think I’m going to stick with the old-fashioned, crossing-of-paths, fate stuff. If love wants to find me, it will.”
― Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up
― Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up
“But life isn’t a museum. I don’t want to live in the past.”
― Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up
― Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up
“I don’t want to spend whatever time I have left looking backwards. I want to look forwards. To new things. New places. New adventures. Otherwise I’m just living a life where a part of me is missing.”
― Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up
― Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up
“From the outside you’d think everything was perfectly normal, but from the inside it was obvious things were not.”
― Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up
― Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up
“For so long I’ve been keeping this secret, but now I realize it’s been keeping me. Keeping me stuck. Keeping me from changing my narrative from one of fear and failure.”
― Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up
― Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up
“I think she wanted to take control of everyone else’s life because her own life was so out of control.”
― Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up
― Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up
“Life does go on and joy does return, and often it’s in the most unexpected of places,’ she continues, ‘but you never get over losing someone; you just get better at coping with it.”
― Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up
― Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up
“People always talk about happy endings, but I think it should be happy beginnings.”
― Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up
― Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up
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