Mary

“She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what.”
― Kate Chopin

“The only reason a true friend won't be there to pick you up is because they are lying beneath you from trying to break your fall.”
― Tommy Cotton

“For [erotically intelligent couples], love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning. They know that they have years in which to deepen their connection, to experiment, to regress, and even to fail. They see their relationship as something alive and ongoing, not a fait accompli. It’s a story that they are writing together, one with many chapters, and neither partner knows how it will end. There’s always a place they haven’t gone yet, always something about the other still to be discovered.”
― Esther Perel, Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic

“Shit happens. You can either stand their and complain about the smell or you can wipe your shoe and keep walking.”
― Tommy Cotton, Just Went Out for Milk