#coup

About halfway through I broke down crying, which I hadn't expected. I was a little ashamed, but only a little;it was her, you see, and she never taxed me with the times that I slipped from the way I thought a man should be...the way I thought I should be, at any rate. A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures, and one without must be among the most miserable, I think, the only true blessing of their lives that they don't know how poorly off they are. ↗

— Stephen King

#marriage #relationships #marriage

marriage is an arrangement between like-minded parties. It’s a partnership, not a love affair. I never lied to you or kept anything of importance from you.”She looked at him then, almost stunned, as if she didn’t recognize him. He didn’t like it. Not at all. ↗

— Mira Lyn Kelly

#fight #hurt #marriage #love

time made me stronger, you're no longer on my mind ↗

— Boyz II Men

#couples #heartbroken #love #relationships #song-lyrics

My arm draped her shoulder; we both felt safe, as if we were a complete solar system unto ourselves, dangling in the sky, warm heated planets inside a universe of stars. -Richard ↗

— Douglas Coupland

#happiness #inspiration #love #inspirational

Unfortunately, I fall too fast, crash too hard, care too much, forgive too easy, wait too long, miss people I shouldn't, worry over nothing, over-think everything, and I am too complicated to be loved. All of the above. ↗

— Unknown

#couples #love #relatable #forgiveness

Romeo wouldn’t change his mind. That’s why people still remembered his name, always twined with hers ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#change

And also it was a process of, we lifted weights as well, in an effort to train my body to then be able to lift heavier weights when I got in Australia. So that was the first couple of months. ↗

— Brandon Routh

#also #australia #body #couple #effort

If something stinks, I say it stinks. But I try to massage it a little and not be as cutting, come behind it with a joke: Hey, I cut you deep, but now let me put a couple of stitches in you. ↗

— Wanda Sykes

#come #couple #cut #cutting #deep

I sat behind Thurman Thomas for my first couple of years, then my first year starting I won the Heisman. After I won the Heisman, that's when things changed as far as going to the NFL. ↗

— Barry Sanders

#as far as #behind #changed #couple #far

Sometimes it's hard to tell if a joke is working or not for the first couple of minutes. ↗

— Dave Attell

#first #hard #joke #minutes #sometimes