Husband Button Quotes & Sayings

So when time had begun to run out on Adelia with no really acceptable husband in sight, she'd married money
crude money, button money. She was expected to refine this money, like oil. — Margaret Atwood

Nobody wants to conduct an autopsy on a dead saint. — Robert Charles Wilson

We can go forward or we can go back, and even though I'm scared as hell, I don't want to go back. — Katie McGarry

Artists often think they are going to die before their time. They seem to possess a heightened sense of the passing of the hours. — Catherine Drinker Bowen

If you have a problem with me, call me. If you don't have my number then that means you don't know me well enough to have a problem. — Eleanor Calder

People grow up, after all, and people's priorities change (...) It's not like things could still (be) the same, no matter how much you want them to — Cassandra Javier

We all know that parents do not make children but that children make parents ... Authentic parenting is one long sacrificial act ... parenting reveals the way that sacrifice at once diminishes our life as we knew it ... while at the same time revealing to us larger and infinitely more fascinating forms of life ... Parents know experientially that the very process which makes them suffer also makes them grow. — Luke Timothy Johnson

Incredible in retrospect, all of it, but especially the parts having to do with travel and communications. This was how he arrived in this airport: he'd boarded a machine that transported him at high speed a mile above the surface of the earth. This was how he'd told Miranda Carroll of her ex-husband's death: he'd pressed a series of buttons on a device that had connected him within seconds to an instrument on the other side of the world, and Miranda - barefoot on a white sand beach with a shipping fleet shining before her in the dark - had pressed a button that had connected her via satellite to New York. These taken-for-granted miracles that had persisted all around them. — Emily St. John Mandel