He was a humorist, and everyone knew the funny writers were the most serious sort under their skins.
Paula McLain
Maybe happiness was an hourglass already running out, the grains tipping, sifting past each other. Maybe it was a state of mind.
happiness
Not everyone believed in marriage then. To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too - that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you up.
marriage tradition history
funny humor comedy writing
I preferred to look at the sea, which said nothing and never made you feel alone.
sadness loneliness sea
We knew what we had and what it meant, and though so much had happened since for both of us, there was nothing like those years in Paris, after the war. Life was painfully pure and simple and good, and I believed Ernest was his best self then. I got the very best of him. We got the best of each other.
life loss
They had as good a shot at making it as anyone did, but what if marriage didn't solve anything and didn't save anyone even a little bit? What then?
marriage saving
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