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“I take thee... to be my awful wedded husband”

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Susan Elizabeth Phillips is a renowned American author, born on December 11, 1948. Her works are known for their humor, warmth, and emotional depth, which have won her a large following among readers. more

“Her mother was a Rutherford. The family came over in the ark, and were connected by marriage with Henry the VIII. On her father's side they date back further than Adam. On the topmost branches of her family tree there's a superior breed of monkeys with very fine silky hair and extra long tails.”

Long Mother Father Sides Tree Hair Fine Connected Superiors Extras Branches Adam Tails Monkeys Ark

Book:Daddy-Long-Legs

Source: Daddy-Long-Legs

“And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even so, attended him even in Ithaca, near those he loved.”

Love Years Long Age Danger Seasons Trials Passages Wheeling

Book:The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald Translation

Source: The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald Translation

“I was thinking, as I watched her, how little it mattered –about her teeth for instance. I know so many women who have kept all the things she had lost, *but whose inner glow has faded*. Whatever else was gone, Antonia had not lost the fire of life.”

Thinking Knows Littles Lost Gone Fire Teeth Instance Faded Antonia

Book:My Ántonia

Source: My Ántonia

“He had become a monster. You just couldn't see it...because it wore the face of a friend.”

Faces Monsters

Author:Cassandra Clare

“I yield to nobody in my admiration for God, but he's no good in bed.”

Bed Admiration Yield

Book:The Serpent's Tale

Source: The Serpent's Tale

“When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.”

Men Children Lying Father Wife Husband Stealing Fairness Cheat

Book:The Kite Runner: Rejacketed

Source: The Kite Runner: Rejacketed

“Now entertain conjecture of a time When creeping murmur and the poring dark Fills the wide vessel of the universe.”

Universe Dark Wide Vessel Pouring Chorus Conjecture Henry V

Author:William Shakespeare

“When you're pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again; yet after giving birth you realize that the biggest part of you is now somehow external, subject to all sorts of dangers and disappearance, so you spend the rest of your life trying to figure out how to keep her close enough for comfort. That's the strange thing about being a mother: Until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one.”

Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes

“The media is the right arm of anarchy.”

Media Arms Anarchy Angels And Demons

Book:Angels & Demons: A Novel

Source: Angels & Demons: A Novel

“I...have always known that my destiny was, above all, a literary destiny — that bad things and some good things would happen to me, but that, in the long run, all of it would be converted into words. Particularly the bad things, since happiness does not need to be transformed: happiness is its own end.”

Needs Long Doe Ends Happens Would Be Running Known Destiny Good Things Bad Things Transformed Long Runs My Destiny

Author:Jorge Luis Borges

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