Category: MARRIAGE

  • These might even turn out to be precious days you get with your aging parents or older family members that you will never have again. And spending time with your elders and learning from them is also vital to building your circle of guidance.

    Waiting & Dating
    Lilyan Andrews

  • The love you lost, or the love you wished for and never had: That love exists eternally. It shifts its shape, but it’s always there.

    Bittersweet
    Susan Cain

  • “Those who search for intimacy with others are reacting to this longing. They think another human will fulfill them. But how many of us have actually ever been totally fulfilled by another person?”

    Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, The Pain of Separation
    (via Bittersweet, Susan Cain)

  • Of them all, it was the true love. Of them all, it was the best. That other, that sumptuous love which made one drunk, which one longed for, envied, believed in, that was not life. It was what life was seeking; it was a suspension of life. But to be close to a child, for whom one spent everything, whose life was protected and nourished by one’s own, to have that child beside one, at peace, was the real, the deepest, the only joy.

    Light Years
    James Salter

  • The great unhappiness of her life was that she had never married.

    Light Years
    James Salter

  • “Try to remember Neil and how you felt about him.” “It’s hard to believe, but I was crazy about him.” “Yes, you can say that, but you can’t feel it.

    Light Years
    James Salter

  • “I don’t believe in marriage, and I have no time for it,” he said. “If you do what you really should do, you will have what you want.”

    Light Years
    James Salter

  • “Even if you cannot marry, you must have some idea of a wife.

    Light Years
    James Salter

  • “I was at Peter and Catherine’s last night. He’s really a marvelous man. Of course they asked about you.” “How are they?” “Well, you know, their life is very curious. Their affection for each other isn’t very great, and yet they’re devoted.” He paused. “I suppose we were something like that.” “Well, everybody is.”

    Light Years
    James Salter

  • “Viri,” she said through the doorway, “but isn’t it better to be someone who follows her true life and is happy and generous, than an embittered woman who is loyal? Isn’t that so?”

    Light Years
    James Salter