#to

But how am I to get over the ten or twelve days that must yet elapse before they go? Yet why so long for their departure? When they are gone how shall I get through the months or years of my future life, in company with that man -- my greatest enemy -- for none could injure me as he has done? Oh! when I think how fondly, how foolishly I have loved him, how madly I have trusted him, how constantly I have laboured, and studied, and prayed, and struggled for his advantage, and how cruelly he has trampled on my love, betrayed my trust, scorned my prayers and tears, and efforts for his preservation --crushed my hopes, destroyed my youth's best feelings, and doomed me to a life of hopeless misery -- as far as man can do it -- it is not enough to say that I no longer love my husband -- I HATE him! The word stares me in the face like a guilty confession, but it is true: I hate him -- I hate him! -- but God have mercy on his miserable soul! ↗

— Anne Brontë

#hate #helen #huntington #marriage #life

After 50 years together as a couple: "Look how fast the leaves are falling now," Alan says. "The trees will be bare in a couple of days. Do you realize that we have watched the leaves fall together for more than fifty autumns?" I stand quietly, looking at Alan, letting his words sink in. I am suddenly so moved. ↗

— Norman Sunshine

#double-life #love-story #norman-sunshine #life

She thought that they could live together for twenty years and he might never consider asking her about marriage. Tom didn’t follow the usual patterns. If marriage was what she wanted, then she would have to be the one to propose to him. ↗

— Bonnie Dee

#bonnie-dee #sarah #tom #marriage

read the state of the art, the rest of inspiration ↗

— Art Opportunities

#art

Art without wisdom is trash. ↗

— Kambiz Mostofizadeh

#art

Beauty is transformed over time, and not without destruction. ↗

— Terry Tempest Williams

#death-to-life #destruction #redemption #sanctification #transformation

...I don't just wish you rain, Beloved - I wish you the beauty of storms... ↗

— John Geddes

#rain #storms #transformation #beauty

Marriage is the legal method devised to end love without pain. ↗

— Tom Morrison

#romance #satire #stock-market #love

A good friend will help you to discover the potentials you haven't uncovered. A bad friend will help you to cover up the potentials you have already recovered. Make your choice! ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#choice #companion #comrade #cover #cover-up

If you can walk with the crowd and keep your virtue, or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute with 60 seconds worth of distance run- Yours is the earth and everything that's in it, And-which is more-you'll be a man my son. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#historical-fiction #war #wwi #love