#mar

Here ends the SILMARILLION. If it has passed from the high and the beautiful to darkness and ruin, that was of old the fate of Arda Marred; and if any change shall come and the Marring be amended, Manwë and Varda may know; but they have not revealed it, and it is not declared in the dooms of Mandos. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#mandos #manwë #silmarillion #varda #beauty

His moods changed minute to minute, and Jan could change him quicker than anyone. The more he loved her the more mixed up he got. He was such a beautiful man, but so unstable. ↗

— David Ritz

#hate #instability #jewel-price #love #marvin-gaye

When a marriage fails, the story of the relationship changes. The best parts, the parts that made you think getting married was a good idea, fade from memory. ↗

— Tori Spelling

#change

Our parents' love is not some grand passion, there are no swoons of lust, no ball gowns and tuxedos, but here is the truth: they have not spent a night apart since the day they married. How can we ever hope to find a love to live up to that? ↗

— Eleanor Brown

#love #marriage-life #inspirational

When I go to the Boston Marathon now, I have wet shoulders—women fall into my arms crying. They're weeping for joy because running has changed their lives. They feel they can do anything. ↗

— Kathrine Switzer

#running #change

She frowned. Then blurted, "Do you have other females?" As if anyone could measure up to her? "No! Why do you ask?" "We haven't layed together and you are a male with obvious... needs. Even now, your body has changed, hardening, growing big." Crap. He'd tried to hide the erection, he really had. "Marissa-" "Surely you need to be eased regularly. Your body is phearsom." That didn't sound good. "What?" "Potent and powerful. Worthy of entering a female." Butch closed his eye, thinking Mr. Worthy was really rising to the occasion now. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#bkack-dagger-brotherhood #butch #j-r-ward #lover-revealed #marissa

There is no trick of a magician or spell of a witch doctor, no drug or mesmerism or bribery or torture or coercion that can compare in power with the force for change unleashed in the human breast through the touch of love. ↗

— Mike Mason

#marriage #relationships #change

Marlon Brando said any guy can become an actor. It takes a real man to quit. ↗

— Clifton Davis

#actor #any #become #brando #guy

La vie est un voyage solitaire et, être mariée n'y change rien. D'ailleurs je pense que le fait de ressentir cette solitude avec la même intensité alors qu'en théorie on est deux est une souffrance encore plus cruelle. Il y a un facteur chance à l'origine de chaque rencontre, après on gère comme on peut ce que la vie nous donne. Or, c'est bien connu, la vie est injuste et, en plus elle a un goût douteux. ↗

— Agathe Colombier Hochberg

#couple #mariage #vie #change

The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at this moment but rather for one whom you can love steadily as your best friend for life, then to proceed with God’s help to do just that. ↗

— J.I. Packer

#puritans #life