Elyse Kim

“Still," he said, "there are a few rules I know to be true about love and marriage: If you don't respect the other person, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you don't know how to compromise, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you can't talk openly about what goes on between you, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. And if you don't have a common set of values in life, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. Your values must be alike.
"And the biggest one of those values, Mitch?" Yes?
"Your belief in the importance of your marriage.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie

“We are great at small talk: "What do you do?" "Where do you live?" But really listening to someone - without trying to sell them something, pick them up, recruit them, or get some kind of status in return - how often do we get this anymore?”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie

“There are thousands of bulls," Brett said. She was not at all nervous now. She looked lovely.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. They would look on and on after very one else's eyes in the world would have stopped looking. She looked as though there were nothing on earth she would not look at like that, and really she was afraid of so many things.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises