Annette Hala

“You both gain and lose when you get married. You gain a partner who will work with you (if you're marrying a Christian)…But you lose the ability to do everything on your own, do only what you want to do, eat only what you want to eat, sleep in if you don't want to get up, watch only the TV programs you want to see, quit a job if you don't like it, move to another town if you prefer, or join the circus. In short, you lose the ability to be selfish without paying a horrible price.”
― Ray Mossholder, Singles Plus: The Bible and Single Life

“We must all read history, and write, and publish, and teach history, better. How can we know who we are and where we are headed if we don't know where we have come from?”
― David McCullough, The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For

“When you've lived alone for a number of years I'm afraid that you begin to realize how hard it would be to accommodate to living with someone else. Adjusting to or even indulging his desires and his life. It was clear to me that I was married to my job. And that I loved it.”
― Katharine Graham, 我的一生略小于美国现代史：凯瑟琳·格雷厄姆自传

“Ambiguous losses are a particular type of loss that lack a definition and lack closure. The ambiguous loss of singleness is particularly challenging to navigate. The person could be found in five minutes. Or never. You're not going to get an email from God that says you're never going to have a partner. That hope lingers on, and it's really hard to live in hope that is not met, but there's no end. Humans don't do uncertainty well.”
― Kelly Maxwell Haer, PhD