There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.
Amy Bloom
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
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Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.
Be real and be unashamed, even of your faults. I do truly know what my husband is made of and vice versa.
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Men do not know what they do not know, and women should not tell them.
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Sophisticated readers understand that writers work out their anger, their conflicts, their endless grief and rolling list of loss, through their stories. That however mean-spirited or diabolical, it's only a story. That the darkness in the soul is shaped into type and lies there, brooding and inert, black on the page, and active, dangerous, only in the reader's mind. Actually, harmless. I am not harmless.
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You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.
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Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of what happened.
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The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.
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