#eli

He left a bit too easily and with obvious relief. His feet were swift and sure on the muddy path. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#divorce #husband #infidelity #marriage #seperation

I’m a combat specialist and marriage counselor.
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— Jarod Kintz

#fight #fighting #marriage #marriage-counselor #quarrel

There are always two figures in a marriage, two votes, two conflicting sets of decisions, desires and limitations. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#elizbeth-gilbert #love #pray #love

...people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham - all a sham, James, and it won't stand when things come to be turned inside out and upside down for what they are. ↗

— Anna Sewell

#horses #religion #beauty

Jag tycker inte om trohet därför att den är vacker, men därför att den är nödvändig. Den som bedrar en människa dödar henne långsamt. ↗

— Stig Dagerman

#men

Let us agree that we are marrying so we can go on quarreling in the greatest comfort and convenience. Oh, please, Althea, look at me. Do say yes. ↗

— Patrice Kindl

#althea-crawley #arguing #comfort #convenience #engagement

A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there and then they are finished. Marathoners have to carefully pace themselves so that they don't run out of energy (or in the case of the novelist-- ideas) because they have so far to run. To mix the metaphor, writing a short story is like having a short intense affair, whereas writing a novel is like a long rich marriage. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#novels #short-fiction #short-stories #writing #writing-process

An emptiness rules at its core, a rottenness, a silence when one of you retires to bed without saying good night, when you eat together without conversation, when the phone's passed wordlessly to the other. An emptiness when every night you lie in the double bed, restlessly awake, astounded at how closely hate can nudge against love, can wind around it sinuously like a cat. An emptiness when you realize that the loneliest you've ever been is within a marriage, as a wife. ↗

— Nikki Gemmell

#marriage #love

Thank God (my wife) and I were both born poor so the concept of fidelity was allowed to take root in us. ↗

— Allan Wolf

#fidelity #humor #marriage #poor #spirit

You may only get this one life – but lived free of submissive reverence – that is still a thing of rampant beauty. ↗

— Trevor Treharne

#atheist #god #logic #reason #religion