“The first thing I do when I come home is check the refrigerator for cats because I'm convinced that if one dies, my husband will hide it in there because I don't cook and so I won't see it. I do drink Cokes, though ,so technically he should hide the corpse in the oven. And now I need to start checking the oven.” IfsNeedsShouldFirstsHomeDiesDrinkHusbandCatConvincedChecksCooksMy HusbandComing HomeCorpsesCokeRefrigeratorsOvens Author:Jenny Lawson
“If an appointed daughter by accident dies without ,leaving a son, the husband of the appointed daughter may, without hesitation, take that estate.” IfsMayDiesSonHusbandDaughterLeavingAccidentsEstatesHesitation Author:Guru Nanak
“It is not cheerful for a girl to discover within twenty-four hours of her wedding that her husband is a hopeless drunkard, and to see him die of delirium tremens within six weeks. An experience so vivid, like lightning must blast something in a woman's conception of life. Because one man's kisses reeked of whisky the kisses of all male humanity were anathema.” MenHumanityDiesGirlHoursFourWeekHusbandKissingSixTwentiesMalesHopelessOne ManConceptionLightningCheerfulVividBlastDrunkardsDeliriumWhiskyAnathemaDelirium Tremens Book:Septimus Source: Septimus
“Widows tend either to fade away when husbands die, committing emotional suttee, or else find that a new life burgeons. Here in Christchurch, a lot of burgeoning goes on.” DiesEmotionalGoes OnHusbandFadesNew LifeWidowsFade Away Author:Fay Weldon
“Sisters are the worst. And they are the best. A sister can be awful and complicated and loving and protective and petty and competitive, and when you die she is the person you want beside you holding your hand. Somebody's gotta organize the potluck after the service and you know your husband's not gonna be up to the job.” KnowsWantPersonsHandsJobsDiesWorstHusbandComplicatedAwfulOrganizePettyProtectiveYour HusbandBeside YouPotluck Book:Henry's Sisters Source: Henry's Sisters
“I would like to be with my husband together sitting somewhere in a lonely place in the woods and take something, maybe some pills or something, a magic potion and die together.” TogetherDiesMagicHusbandSittingLonelyWoodsMy HusbandPillsLonely Places Author:Isabel Allende
“There are some people who want me and my husband to stay where it is safe and draw a paycheck every week instead of what we are doing (which is creating and sharing our art with others). The truth is that there are people in this world - Dave and I being two - who would die a slow painful death if stuck in an office and made to do the kind of work that we are not made to do.” PeopleIfsWorldWantKindArtMadeTwoDiesWeekThis WorldTruth IsSafeHusbandOfficeCreatingDrawsPainfulStuckMy HusbandWant MePaychecksDavePainful Death Author:Mary Engelbreit
“I think I'm an observer in a way. And my life was not so - well, my life was bad too - but it's just that I had the sense to cope with it. But it's probably not that easy to cope if you're in a society where you get killed when your husband dies.” IfsThinkingWayWellsDiesEasyHusbandObserversYour Husband Author:Yoko Ono
“When [Len Wiseman and I] first met, I was a huge fan of the 'Alien' movies. I was a huge 'Die Hard' fan until it ate my husband for two years. We sit and watch movies all the time. One of my favorite movies is 'Dog's Day Afternoon.' Len loves that movie.” YearsFirstsTwoHardDiesWatchesFansDogHugeMetsHusbandMy FavoriteAliensTwo YearsMy HusbandAfternoonWatch MovieAliens Movie Author:Kate Beckinsale
“When I was exposed to the history and the cultural background of why women whose husbands die, why they have to become ascetic or live a life that is completely deprived of emotional or social or cultural sustenance, I was really shocked.” DiesSocialEmotionalHusbandBackgroundsExposedShockedDeprivedSustenance Author:Deepa Mehta
“All Angelina Jolie wants to do is do good for people. And she was saying to me: If I could just make one person happy, Joan, I'll die satisfied. I said: Easy! Just give Jennifer Aniston back her husband.” PeopleIfsWantGivingPersonsSaidDiesEasyHusbandSatisfiedIf I CouldJennifer Author:Joan Rivers
“I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband.” DiesHistoryHusbandShotsLifetimeJealousAppointmentsJealous Husband Author:Thurgood Marshall
“My life really began when I married my husband.” DiesHusbandMarriedFormerMy HusbandFirst LadyFormer Life Author:Nancy Reagan
“The doctor told Phil, my then husband, that my condition was really bad news. They had found an artery tearing and said I could die. They said they could try to patch it up but it could go horribly wrong. It all turned out okay in the end but it was touch and go.” TryingSaidEndsDiesFoundConditionsHusbandNewsDoctorsOkayThey SaidPatchesBad NewsArteries Author:Sharon Stone
“Because I have nothing else to live for. You told me of your brother’s betrayal. Imagine your own father calling out his hounds to kill your infant daughter and husband. Imagine what it was like to watch them die and then be taken and punished for something you didn’t do. To be stripped of your dignity and emotions because your father was embarrassed by a stupid, insignificant dream he’d had and he blamed everyone who walks in the dreams for it. You feel your pain, Aiden. I feel mine. (Leta)” FeelsDreamPainDiesFatherWalksEmotionWatchesTakenImagineStupidMinesBrotherCallingHusbandDaughterDignityBetrayalEmbarrassedInfantInsignificantYour BrotherHounds Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon
“She'd always believed that people come in two varieties: those who look out the windshield and those who stare in the rearview mirror. She'd always been the windshield type: gotta focus on the future, not the past, because that's the only part that's still up for grabs. Mom throws me out? Gotta get some food and find a place to live. Husband dies? Gotta keep working, or I'll end up going crazy. Got some guy stalking me? Gotta figure out a way to stop it.” PeopleWayLooksStillsTwoEndsPastGuyDiesFocusCrazyFiguresMomTypeHusbandMirrorsVarietyStaringStalkingPlaces To LiveGoing CrazyRearview MirrorFocus On The FutureStalking Me Author:Nicholas Sparks
“I've had more students die than I ever thought possible. My husband urges me to quit Fairfield and teach at some school without gang members who live their lives only to die or end up as drug dealers.” EndsSchoolDiesTeachStudentsDrugHusbandMembersQuittingUrgesMy HusbandGangDealerDrug DealersGang Members Author:Simone Elkeles
“I could have told him that nothing was safe and that no matter how careful you were and how hard you tried, there were still accidents, hidden traps, and snares. You could get killed on an airplane or crossing the street. Your marriage could fall apart when you weren't looking; your husband could lose his job; our baby could get sick or die.” StillsMatterHardJobsDiesFallLosesStreetsBabySafeHusbandSickCarefulAccidentsAirplaneTrapsFalling ApartCrossingsYour HusbandSnaresCrossing The Street Book:Little Earthquakes Source: Little Earthquakes
“My husband is my most ruthless critic... sometimes he will say, 'It's been said better before.' Of course it has. It's all been said better before. If I thought I had to say it better than anybody else, I'd never start. Better or worse is immaterial. The thing is that it has to be said; by me; ontologically. We each have to say it, to say it our own way. Not of our own will, but as it comes out through us. Good or bad, great or little: that isn't what human creation is about. It is that we have to try; to put it down in pigment, or words, or musical notations, or we die.” IfsWayTryingHumansLittlesSaidSometimesDiesCoursesCreationHusbandCriticsMusicalMy HusbandRuthlessPigment Author:Madeleine L'Engle
“Does a soldier go to war in order to kill the enemy? no, he goes in order to die for his country. Does a wife want to show her husband how happy she is? no, she wants him to see how she suffers in order to make him happy Does the husband go to work thinking he will find personal fulfillment there? no, he is giving his sweat and tears for the good of the family And so it goes on: sons give up their dreams to please their parents, parents give up their lives in order to please their children; pain and suffering are used to justify the one thing that should bring only LOVE.” ThinkingWantGivingShouldChildrenDoeWarCountryShowsDreamPainUsedSufferingOrderDiesParentEnemyWifeOne ThingTearsSonGoes OnPleaseHusbandGiving UpSoldierFulfillmentJustifySweatOnly LoveWant HimPain And SufferingSweat And TearsPersonal Fulfillment Author:Paulo Coelho
“DEATH . . . And now you are here to fight for this woman. You know her promise is given. She has to die or her husband won't go free. APOLLO Relax, I'm not breaking any laws. DEATH Why the bow, if you're breaking no laws? APOLLO I always carry a bow, it's my trademark.” IfsKnowsLawDiesFightingGivenPromiseHusbandRelaxBowsApolloTrademarks Author:Anne Carson
“Afterward I told his widow, "Your husband is dead, but at least he died laughing.' I think she took some comfort in that. It is the second-best way to die, Will Henry." He did not say what the best way was.” ThinkingWayDiesLaughingComfortHusbandDiedBest WayWidowsYour HusbandSecond Best Book:The Isle of Blood Source: The Isle of Blood
“Everything that belonged to her husband made her weep again: his tasseled slippers, his pajamas under the pillow, the space of his absence in the dressing table mirror, his own odor on her skin. A vague thought made her shudder: "The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.” PeopleShouldMadeDiesSpaceHusbandSkinsMirrorsTablesAbsenceVagueDressingsOne LovePillowOdorPajamasSlippers Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez