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“I want to look at him and think, 'I'd burn cities to keep you warm', better yet I want to think, 'I'd plant forests to keep you alive'.”

Book:October Defined: an anthology of verse

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“We were not a happy couple, and not a miserable couple. We were six of one and half-a-dozen of the other. How it was I don't understand, but we always seemed to be getting, with the best of motives, in one another's way. When I wanted to go upstairs, there was my wife coming down; or when my wife wanted to go down there was I coming up. That is married life, according to my experience of it.”

Marriage Happy Couples

Book:The Moonstone

Source: The Moonstone

“She loved him. She really did. And he knew it. And you can’t leave a thing like that. It’s a structure and it has an architecture, and you can’t leave it without tearing off a piece of yourself.”

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Book:The Wayward Bus

Source: The Wayward Bus

“Brad looked at his wife with that expression of love that is the sole property of people who have been married over ten years.”

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Book:The Regulators

Source: The Regulators

“The pilgrimage began boldly Flying, alone, business class only And the Atlantic stretched into blends Of grey --where do the clouds touch the water? I worried about swelling; such an elderly Concern, but I drank water as fast as the Man in 48G drank coffee (The alcohol was reserved for the woman in 47A) Landing, I carefully followed instructions And laughed when he held up my name on a sign, as if He was privileged for my presence --didn't the flowers signify? Kissing, right there, in crowded Heathrow I could hear the director wanting a replay But we had trains to catch...”

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Book:Carve a Place for Me

Source: Carve a Place for Me

“In their hearts women think that it is the men’s business to earn money and theirs to spend it – if possible during their husband’s life, but, at any rate, after his death”

Women Relationships Marriage

Book:On Women

Source: On Women

“It is an easy thing to overlook true love. Our eyes are searching for event and objects Found in movies, Novels, And journals bursting with dreams. We glance above the murky reality. Our hearts do not notice the consistent presence Of loyalty, Friendship, And dishes again scrubbed clean”

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Book:Give Me a Fragment: Glimpses into Motherhood, Depression, and Hope

Source: Give Me a Fragment: Glimpses into Motherhood, Depression, and Hope

“Adoration is what I wanted But I received love, instead We clamor for Byron and Keats yet Austen taught us Knightley and Darcy Words mean nothing if not followed by Action And this is why she gave us Brandon...”

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Book:Carve a Place for Me

Source: Carve a Place for Me

“He gave me mountains and sunsets Careful progressive confidence -- A desire to try on what I had seen in Window displays and never imagined I could afford them”

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Book:We Have Time

Source: We Have Time

“Side by side they loved For seventy joyful years; Loyal to the end When they passed away Only nine short months apart It matched their story No need for fanfare Only the longing to be Together, again”

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Author:Cheryl Seely Savage

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