“Feeling unable to maintain this detachment of attitude towards human- and, in especial, matrimonial- affairs, I asked whether it was not true that she had married Bob Duport. She nodded; not exactly conveying, it seemed to me, that by some happy chance their union had introduced her to an unexpected terrestrial paradise.”
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“I am flagrantly nuts. I can say this because I am a doctor and I know about these things.”
“Marriages are made in heaven. When Allah made a creature, He also made the creature's mate”
“The price one pays for having a kind man at one’s elbow.”