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“There are little things nobody warns you about when you’re waiting your turn to die: how you’ll miss a heavy homemade quilt, stitched just right, covering two bodies; how you’ll wait for evening light to fall on the painted walls of a shared bedroom; how you’ll hear the song of finches and a woman’s voice cluster in your head long after they’re gone; how you’ll remember the taste of Southern honest-to-God good cooking shared between two bowls and two plates and two sets of spoons, forks, and knives; how you’ll forget the way the air smells when there’s nothing but love pouring out your lungs because there’s no one left to breathe in all that love.”

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The Kindness of Terrible People and Other Stories

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“در کتاب های خودیار به زنانی که نگران از دست دادن شوهران خود هستند توصیه می شود اسرارآمیزتر باشند و کاری کنند که رفتارشان قابل پیش بینی نباشد. به زن ها توصیه نمی شود نگرانی های خود را با شوهرشان در میان بگذارند. به جای آن به آنها می گویند که کاری صورت دهند. من مخالف راه های عمل گرا نیستم. خود من همیشه از این شیوه استفاده می کنم. روی هم رفته رو به رو شدن با مسائل ارتباطی دشوار است و هر اقدامی برای رفع این مشکل ارزشمند است. اما از آن جایی که این راه حل ها موقتی هستند اغلب موثر واقع نمی شوند.”

“مسئله ی روابط زن و شوهر خود از دو مسئله ناشی می شود: (۱) خود مسئله و (۲) طرزی که درباره ی مسئله حرف می زنیم ( یا حرف نمی زنیم). طرز صحبت کردن یا نکردن شما درباره ی یک مسئله اغلب بخش عمده مسئله است.”

“He thinks often of the letter Charlotte left for him. "The story that starts a marriage," she wrote, "is very often the same story that ends it." Or rather, the seed of the end is planted in the beginning. It is the sadness of marriage that one can only learn where the end begins when it is too late; by then love is over and one is left bearing the various carapaces of wedlock - the little roof over our little house, the hate you wore on our honeymoon, the umbrellas we each carried of an English summer to keep us safe from unwanted rain. We err, she wrote, because we think happiness is a state in itself, when really it is only a symptom of love.”

“o Like his teacher [Jamal Al-Din Al-Afghani], Abdu was an ardent and committed religious thinker. He argued for the acquisition of “modern” sciences and for “modernisation”, for the promotion of widespread education, for reforms in the intellectual and social fields, and for the elevation of women’s status and changes in marriage practices, and he emphasized the importance of the need to throw off ignorance and misrepresentation of Islam that had accrued over the centuries.”