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I have produced no children of my own and my husband is dead," she replied, an acid tone in her voice. "Thus I am more to be pitied than revered. I am expected to give up the shop to my nephew, who will then be able to afford to bring a very good wife from Pakistan. In exchange, I will be given houseroom and no doubt, the honor of taking care of several small children of other family members." The Major was silent. He was at once appalled and also reluctant to hear any more. This was why people usually talked about the weather. ↗


— Helen Simonson


#family #family-relationships #inevitability #pessimism #relationships

I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy. ↗


— Jeanette Winterson


#cozy #how #i #into #life

Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived. ↗


— Simon Wiesenthal


#asking #entails #forever #i #i am

There is no more reason to think that they expected the world to remain static than there is to think that any of us holds a crystal ball. The only way to create a foundational document that could stand the test of time was to build in enough flexibility that later generations would be able to adapt it to their own needs and uses. ↗


— Diane Wood


#adapt #any #ball #build #could

Divorce is so common and accepted in America that beating myself up over it may sound ridiculous. But I was raised to believe that divorce wasn't an option; to me, divorce equaled failure. I wasn't able to change that equation until I found myself in the right relationship. ↗


— Trisha Yearwood


#accepted #america #beating #believe #change

There are two things to be aware of if the fight against evil inclinations is to have any chance of success. First, our efforts will never be sufficient on their own. Only the grace of Christ can win us the victory. Therefore our chief weapons are prayer, patience, and hope. Second, one passion can only be cured by another - a misplaced love by a greater love, wrong behavior by right behavior that makes provisions for the desire underlying the wrongdoing, recognizes the conscious or unconscious needs that seek fulfillment and either offers them legitimate satisfaction or transfers them to something compatible with the person's calling. ↗


— Jacques Philippe


#temptations #freedom

Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill. ↗


— William Butler Yeats


#bucket #choose #companions #down #draws

The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth. ↗


— William Butler Yeats


#creations #earth #given #great #great writer

And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so. ↗


— A. B. Yehoshua


#cross #how #keep #lives #major

Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe. ↗


— A. B. Yehoshua


#explore #gold #intimate #literature #mine






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