“Gauntlets are the stuff of every life, but when you learn young how to pick them up, how to work them against the demons, and finally how to outlast if not escape those same demons, life can seem more merciful. It's that long, smooth, false swanning through life that seems to drive a person, sooner or later, into the wall.” IfsPersonsLongSeemsYoungStuffWallPicksExperienceDemonSooner Or LaterSmoothMercifulGauntlet Book:A Thousand Days in Venice: An Unexpected Romance Source: A Thousand Days in Venice: An Unexpected Romance
“Living as a couple never means that each gets half. You must take turns at giving more than getting. It’s not the same as a bow to the other whether to dine out rather than in, or which one gets massaged that evening with oil of calendula; there are seasons in the life of a couple that function, I think, a little like a night watch. One stands guard, often for a long time, providing the serenity in which the other can work at something. Usually that something is sinewy and full of spines. One goes inside the dark place while the other one stays outside, holding up the moon.” ThinkingGivingMeanLittlesLongNightTurnsDarkHalfWatchesCoupleMoonLong TimeSeasonsFunctionOilEveningBowsSerenityProvidingSpineDark PlacesDine Author:Marlena De Blasi
