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Category Archives: Love and Marriage Quotes
The Invisible Landscape
“Erslebet persuaded her husband to come to bed early. She waits for him there. As he enters the bedroom, he senses her perfume unfolding around him, a narcotic atmosphere of musk, ambergris, vanilla, iris, rose. She prepared this invisible … Continue reading
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The Heart Throws No Fish Back In The River
“Love, my mother believed, was the only specific for true beauty—an abundance of it could make a woman who was as plain as zwieback go into the streets smiling, with her head high and her shoulders back, and a dearth … Continue reading
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Tagged beauty, book quote, heart, interesting life, Kaye Gibbons, love, nourishing the soul, strong woman
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A Chance to Undo the Damage
“She told me that Henry showed signs of narcissistic personality disorder. For Cathy she suggested a possible diagnosis of borderline personality disorder. Women with borderline personality disorder are emotionally unstable and intensely needy, and often resort to dramatic gestures to … Continue reading
A Weak Husband Living With An Excellent Woman
“I could only wonder what sort of model husband and father he might be if he changed. But change that elemental would come only if he hit rock bottom, such an unpleasant place for him to regard that I knew … Continue reading
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Love and Three Tea Cups
A woman came into my shop today looking for tea cups. Three tea cups, as a gift for a friend who was getting married. Actually, remarried. Years ago, there were three of them who lived on the same street and … Continue reading
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Tagged a new man, finding love again, friendship, love, Marriage, Second marriage, sheet music, Tea, Tea Cup
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We Lay Our Sleeping Lives
“She asked nothing from those she loved except to be able to trust them. Perhaps that is not nothing, perhaps it is a great deal. I don’t know, I can’t say. She only wanted to feel she could surrender herself, … Continue reading
What he loved in horses was what he loved in men
” He rode with the sun coppering his face and the red wind blowing out of the west. He turned south along the old war trail and he rode to the crest of a low rise and dismounted and dropped the … Continue reading
Love Seeps into the Machinery of Life
“Love is an ancient delirium, a desire older than civilization, with taproots stretching deep into dark and mysterious days…..Love, like truth, is the unassailable defense. Whoever first said ‘love makes the world go around’ (it was an anonymous Frenchman) … Continue reading
The Effort to Subdue My Rebellious Heart
The juggernaut of reality shows doesn’t seem to be slowing down…they keep producing more and more the about many elements of sometimes peculiar humans. There seems to be a never-ending supply of people who will do just about anything … Continue reading
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Tagged Alternative Lifestyles, Polygamy, Reality television, Relationships
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