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How do you know? How best to ensure his nervous breakdown?" I ask. "Keep going," Christian says. "Just go on as if nothing has happened. We all hate that. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#cheating #deception #divorce #infidelity #marriage

Flannel shirts should be outlawed for ex husbands; I realize this now. Flannel shirts are to women what crotchless panties are to men. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#divorce #husband #infidelity #marriage #seperation

Philip wasn't the sort of man to make a friend of a woman. He wanted devotion. I gave him that. I did, you know. But I couldn't stand being made a fool of. I couldn;t stand being put on probation, like an office-boy, to see if I was good enough to be condescended to. I quite thought he was honest when he said he didn't believe in marriage -- and then it turned out that it was a test, to see whether my devotion was abject enough. Well, it wasn't. I didn't like having matrimony offered as a bad-conduct prize. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#hypocrisy #matrimony #marriage

Follow the Pfizer pill road! Follow the Pfizer pill road! Follow, follow, follow, follow, Follow the Pfizer pill road! ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#divorce #husband #infidelity #marriage #seperation

This people know where their husbands are. I would like to vomit. I would like to vomit my soul out. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#divorce #husbands #infidelity #marriage #seperation

When I reach out, you take my hand.  When I smile, you mirror the expression. When I triumph, you glory as if it were your own. When I fail, you point to the light at the end. When I need, you tenderly provide. When I cry, you kiss away my tears. When I suffer,  you bleed. And you wonder why I love you? ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#devotion #giving #love #love-story #lovers

What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#courtship #discord #disharmony #empowerment #gender

Yes, there is something in me hateful, repulsive," thought Ljewin, as he came away from the Schtscherbazkijs', and walked in the direction of his brother's lodgings. "And I don't get on with other people. Pride, they say. No, I have no pride. If I had any pride, I should not have put myself in such a position". ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#levin #ljewin #love #marriage #pride

The punishment of vertical rending was given to those who had destroyed marriages to satisfy their own lust. ↗

— Cindy Pon

#fury-of-the-phoenix #infidelity #marriage

I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this. [Cormac McCarthy's Venomous Fiction, New York Times, April 19, 1992] ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#author-quotes #creative-process #earning-a-living #gift #humor