The Wife
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wives, oh wives, when they weren’t being bitter or melancholy or counting the beads on their abacus of disappointment, they could take care of you with delicate and effortless ease.
“Grief felt like it mixed up her brain and her heart, put them back in the wrong places. She wasn’t sure how she’s set that right ever again.”
― More Than Words
― More Than Words
“Wives tend, they hover. Their ears are twin sensitive instruments, satellites picking up the slightest scrape of dissatisfaction. Wives bring broth, we bring paper clips, we bring ourselves and our pliant, warm bodies. We know just what to say to the men who for some reason have a great deal of trouble taking consistent care of themselves or anyone else.”
― The Wife
― The Wife
“I may not have a chair to sit on, he often says, but I have my word.”
― Dominicana
― Dominicana
“The assholes are always puzzled when the order of the universe is restored, when they are held accountable for their cowardly, pretentious, loveless ways.”
― You
― You
“I don’t think any man is my equal. Women are far superior, and don’t you forget it.”
― P.S. I Still Love You
― P.S. I Still Love You
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