Emma

“The first part of saving your life is coming to understand how you endangered it by loving wrongly, and living under the rule of your passions.”
― Rod Dreher, How Dante Can Save Your Life: The Life-Changing Wisdom of History's Greatest Poem

“Our life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Complete Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“But thinking of Mattie's marriage, I saw too how a marriage, in bringing two people into each other's presence, must include loneliness and error. I imagined a moment when the husband and wife realize that their marriage includes their faults, that they do not perfect each other, and that in making their marriage they also fail it and must carry to the grave things they cannot give away.”
― Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow

“One thing God has spoken, two things have I heard: that you, O God, are strong, and that you, O Lord, are loving. (Ps. 62:11–12)”
― John Eldredge, Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul