#fidel

...bunches of flowers and kisses, their bodies locked together by a stopwatch." Descriptive on an affair ↗

— Susan Richards Shreve

#infidelity #life

The only sheets I'll ever long for are my own. ↗

— David Hewson

#fidelity #infidelity #sex #infidelity

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#demands #difficult #fidelity #greater #heroic

I know that many, if not most, women would have a problem with my acceptance of what happened with Lara. The reality is I shall always be grateful to Lara for helping my husband when I could not do so. I couldn’t have chosen a better or kinder surrogate. ↗

— Deirdre-Elizabeth Parker

#infidelity #marriage #unconditonal-love #forgiveness

Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#betrayed #fidelity #peculiar #those #virtue

In the last analysis, of course, an oath will encourage fidelity in office only to the degree that officeholders continue to believe that they cannot escape ultimate accountability for a breach of faith. ↗

— James L. Buckley

#analysis #believe #breach #cannot #continue

It had all seemed as inevitable as sunset. Instead it was the beauty of the sun glinting upon the scythe. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#divorce #infidelity #marriage #relationships #seperation