Marriage More Blog Quotes & Sayings

never seen real darkness, not in the city, but how, if you stood peeing off the cabin porch on a moonless night, or took a walk through the woods where the treetops stitched out the stars, you could almost forget you were there, you felt invisible. Country dark, his mother called it. — Tom Franklin

I'd be ashamed to see a woman walking around with my name-label on her, address and railway station, like a wardrobe trunk. — D.H. Lawrence

I find I can get so much done between midnight and 4 a.m. Everything is quiet, no one is disturbing me, and if I go to bed then, I just lie awake thinking of ideas. They are very creative hours for me. One night a week I crash out, though. — Tom Ford

I've always loved film and wanted to work in film. I just love working and creating new characters, and trying different genres and different things. — Alison Brie

He was the loveliest sight she'd ever seen. — Megan Hart

When I first went to Africa, I thought that I was personally going to save the continent, if not the world. — Jacqueline Novogratz

The Muslims wanted to reign over the whole of Mostar, then gain ground to the sea and finally create an Islamic state. That is what our Croatians defend themselves against. — Franjo Tudjman

History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information. — Robert Smithson

The best thing you can do is just keep busy, keep working hard, so you're not dwelling on it all the time. Work is the best antidote for sorrow. — Gordon B. Hinckley

I may have people lying to me, but since I don't really know the truth, I can't be sure. — Sue Grafton

Fiction should be specific rather than general, because people are specific. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Corruption is a tree, whose branches are Of an immeasurable length: they spread Ev'rywhere; and the dew that drops from thence Hath infected some chairs and stools of authority. — John Fletcher

Some years ago, I read an article about two people in the arts (alas, I can't remember who they were) who'd been married for many, many years. Asked for the secret of their long partnership, they said: "We fell straight into conversation when we met, and we haven't come to the end of that conversation yet."
I can't think of a better model for marriage than that. Or of a narrative more romantic ... — Terri Windling