Marcelle

“Wives think their husbands will change but they don’t.
Husbands think their wives won’t change but they do.”
― Alice Feeney, Beautiful Ugly

“[...] academics have allowed standards to be determined by quality assurance agencies, marking rubrics, competencies, and graduate outcomes. The fixation on speed and ease is now revealing long-term consequences.”
― Tara Brabazon, Steve Redhead, Runyararo S. Chivaura, Trump Studies: An Intellectual Guide to Why Citizens Vote Against Their Interests

“Come back! Even as a shadow, even as a dream.”
― Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

“Hortense was a wife; Valerie a mistress.
Many men desire to have these two editions of the same work, although it is proof of deep inferiority in a man if he cannot make his wife his mistress. Seeking variety is a sign of impotence.”
― Honoré de Balzac, Cousin Bette