Widowers Quotes

“I gave the best and all my life to a girdled tree. It was live oak, and was good for any purpose, except for blossom and fruit, and I am not willing for Belle to be content with anything less than the whole of a man's heart.

[Varina Davis, Letter to a friend, advising against his daughter Belle marrying a widower]”
― Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

“She's great company; she plays a mean hand of gin; and I like holding her hand almost as much as yours. What more do I need?”
― Libby Fischer Hellmann, A Picture of Guilt

“In frustration she sometimes asked him what he would do if she died first, to which he smugly replied, "You won't," as if it were a joke instead of her worst fear.”
― Stewart O'Nan, Evensong