Thirstier Than Usual Quotes & Sayings

no family can get on without women to help; that in every family, poor or rich, there are and must be nurses, either relations or hired. "No, — Anton Chekhov

I wouldn't burden any decent system of faith by participating in it ... I'm not agnostic. Just nonpartisan. Theological Switzerland, that's me. — Jim Butcher

O love! love! love! Is there any sorrow in life like loving? — Amelia E. Barr

They were still in the happier stage of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered. They both seemed to have arrived there with an extraordinary innocence as though a series of pure accidents had driven them together, so many accidents that at last they were forced to conclude that they were for each other. They had arrived with clean hands, or so it seemed, after no traffic with the merely curious and clandestine. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Grief, when it comes, is nothing like we expect it to be. — Joan Didion

I had wanted to get married, but I realized now that I never wanted to be a 'wife. — Jill Bialosky

Not everyone can see the truth, but everyone can be the truth. — Franz Kafka

Intolerance is natural and logical, for in every dissenting opinion lies an assumption of superior wisdom. — Ambrose Bierce

I am still jealous that Phoebe's mother came back and mine did not. I miss my mother. — Sharon Creech