Mary Thompson

“You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.”
― Jodi Picoult, Mercy

“The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.”
― Francis Bacon

“This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.”
― T.S. Eliot